Souffelweyersheim

French commune
nomcommune=Souffelweyersheim
région=Alsace
département=Bas-Rhin
arrondissement =Strasbourg-Campagne
canton=Mundolsheim
insee=
cp=
maire=Andre Reichardt
mandat=2001-2008
intercomm=Communauté urbaine de Strasbourg
longitude=7.74166667
latitude=48.63555556
alt moy =
alt mini=133 m
alt maxi=153 m
hectares=
km²=4,51
sans=6 017
date-sans=1999
dens=1,334
date-dens=1999

Souffelweyersheim is a small town and commune, located in the Bas-Rhin "département", Alsace "région", in northeastern France.

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Etymology

Souffelweyersheim means: the village on the pond of Souffel. Souffel (the Souffel river) + Weyer (the pond) + S (of) + Heim (hamlet, village)

Locally the name is shortened and the village is called Souffel.

Geography

The village covers an ara of 451 hectares (1114 acres), and is located 6 km (3¾ miles) north of Strasbourg at an altitude of 140 metres (460 ft). Located in the plain of Alsace, between the massifs of the Vosges and the Black Forest, the plain is bisected by the Souffel river from which the village takes its name. This river rises in Kuttolsheim and joins Ill river, tributary of the Rhine, a little south of Wantzenau after flowing 27 km (17 miles).

History

In 1790, Schiltigheim divides the ried of Ill, hitherto public pasture common to Souffelweyersheim, Hoenheim, Bischheim, Adelshoffen and Schiltigheim.

In 1792, the emigrants, combined with the Austro-Prussians begin hostilities against France. From October to December 1793, the engagements between the troops of the French Republic and the Austro-Prussians center on Hoenheim face - Griesheim-on-Souffel - Dingsheim before the Austro-Prussian troops are pushed back out of Alsace in January 1794.

Napoleon's 1813 Russian Campaign is a disaster for Napoleon and the French people. Napoleon manages with difficulty to return to France, but enemy forces in the Sixth Coalition follow. In January 1814, the French troops lose Strasbourg to Cossacks who canton in Hoenheim, Bischheim and Schiltigheim. Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates in favour of Louis XVIII, was banished in the isle of Elba. However Napoleon escaped from Elba and returned to France on February 26 1815 Elba and in a for a campaign that lasts a Hundred Days he attempts to remain on the throne of France. Following Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, General Jean Rapp, having had wind of intentions of annexation of Alsace, lined up under the orders of Louis XVIII and fights on the Souffel, to the doorstep of Hoenheim.Fact|date=July 2007

On June 28 1815, the battle of Souffelweyersheim-Hoenheimtook place between the Rapp general and the Crown Prince of Wurtemberg. The 16,000 men of the Rapp general could not beat the 42,000 men of the troops of the Seventh Coalition.

The day after the battle, Crown Prince of Württemberg ordered the burning of the village of Souffelweyersheim.

1852 was the year of the inauguration of two new transportation routes passing by the territory of Souffelweyersheim, the channel of the Marne in the Rhine which connects Vitry-le-François in Strasbourg and the railway line Paris-Strasbourg.

On July 19, 1870, the Franco-Prussian War began. On August 7, shortly after the battle of Froeschwiller-Wœrth, the German troops arrived at Souffelweyersheim. The troops settled in Reichstett and began the head office of Strasbourg August 12 and arranged with the local populace for supplies for the troops. On September 27, Strasbourg was in flames from the constant bombardment. The Treaty of Frankfurt, signed May 10 1871, puts an end to the war, but France must yield the three departments of the Alsace-Moselle, keeping only Belfort.

In 1906, the marshalling yard of Hausbergen is inaugurated. It extends to several communes from which Souffelweyersheim is comprised.

On September 2 1939, the inhabitants of the communes in front of the Maginot line are evacuated in the vallée de la Bruche (valley of the Beetle). On September 3, 1939, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and France declare war in Germany. On September 9, the evacuated inhabitants embark on a second journey to the South of France. They will not return to Alsace, annexed "de facto" by the Germans, in August 1940.

On November 23, 1944, Strasbourg is liberated by the French 2nd Armoured Division of General Leclerc.

In January 1945, a German offensive called Operation Nordwind forces a redeployment of the Allied troops north of Alsace. General Charles de Gaulle refuses the American order to evacuate Strasbourg and the French troops push the Germans back but not before they reached Offendorf. Souffelweyersheim and its neighbourhoods remained under the fire of the German batteries until April 1945.

A law of 1966 created the Urban Community of Strasbourg and Souffelweyersheim integrated into it. 1970 saw the completion of the construction of the motorway A34 Metz - Strasbourg, later absorptive by the A4 motorway connecting Paris in Strasbourg, skirting the sorting of Hausbergen.

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Places and monuments

The Saint-George church was built in 1781 in the neo-classic style. Most of the tower has been rebuild since then.

ee also

* Communes of the Bas-Rhin department sorted by arrondissements and cantons