Wolfgantzen

Wolfgantzen (German Wolf whole) is a municipality with 1033 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) in the Canton of Neuf- Brisach in the region of Alsace ( Haut -Rhin) in France. She is a member of the Association of Municipalities Communauté de communes du Pays de Brisach.

Geography

Wolfgantzen is located northwest of the cantonal capital ( chef -lieu ) Neuf- Brisach and is passed by the Territory road D 415 and the museum railway line Colmar- Volgelsheim. The community area is used for agriculture, to the west is a wooded area.

History

The town is named after Saint Wolfgang and mentioned to the first turn of the millennium as a wolf going home. The current village name is derived from the Alemannic Alsatian pronunciation of the original name.

In the High Middle Ages Wolfgantzen was first under the rule of the Counts of Eguisheim and in the 13th and 14th centuries, then the Habsburgs. In the 15th century the place then fell to the House of Württemberg. Because of this affiliation Wolfgantzen 1536 during the Reformation was Protestant. Towards the end of the 17th century Württemberg possessions in Alsace came under French sovereignty. In contrast to the remaining possessions in the Holy Roman Empire of the Württemberg therefore also had to allow the Catholic rite. The local church, dating their origins in the 11th century, was then used in 1685 to build its own Catholic church in 1877 as Simultaneum.

The Württemberg rule ended with the French Revolution and the associated introduction of centralism in France. The more political affiliation Wolfgantzens followed the of Alsace. 1871 was the site of the German Empire and became 1918/19, French again.

Demographics

Attractions

• The Catholic Church of St. Wolfgang in neo-gothic style was built in 1877.
• In the village there is also a Protestant church.