Oberhaslach

Oberhaslach is a common French, located in the department of the the Low-Rhine and the area Alsace.

Geography

History

The current commune of Oberhaslach was a place inhabited by tribes Celtes as of Antiquity. Located at the crossing of two important roads, the Romains made of it a place of garrison which was transformed little by little into modest village of size (attest some steles exposed to the historical Musée of Strasbourg).

At the 7th century, Florent, a hermit from Ireland converts the surroundings with the Christianisme and settled at the place where is currently the Saint-Florent vault. Florent became thereafter bishop under the name of Florent of Strasbourg.

With the Middle Ages, the place was populated by Germanic families and Germanic arrivals of Germany and Switzerland, giving its name to the villages of Oberhaslach and Niederhaslach (haslach=" hole of the noisettes" in old Germanic language).

The village was decimated by the Guerre Thirty Year old and the repopulation of made mainly by families from Switzerland.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • Castle of Hohenstein
  • Castle of Nideck
  • Castle of Ringelstein: dating from the beginning of the 13th century, it was constituted around several sandstone rocks at an altitude of 644 Mr. Propriété of Eguisheim, the place is quoted as of the middle of the 12th century. After the extinction of the family, it passes to the bishop of Strasbourg. Den of knights brigands, it is destroyed in 1470.

  • Vault of Gensbourg, to 3 km after the village in direction of Nideck: small néo-Romance vault of the 19th century.

  • Vault of Saint-Florent pilgrimage: the current building goes back to 1750 (restored at the 20th century). Its most remarkable elements are a series of Ex-voto 18th and 19th centuries.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of the Low-Rhine

External bonds

  • Oberhaslach on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Oberhaslach on the site of INSEE
  • Localization of Oberhaslach on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Oberhaslach on Mapquest

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