Ingwiller

Ingwiller Íngwiller
Coat of arms
Ingwiller
Location within Alsace region  Ingwiller
Coordinates: 48°52′N 7°29′E / 48.87°N 7.48°ECoordinates: 48°52′N 7°29′E / 48.87°N 7.48°E
Country	France
Region	Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Saverne
Canton	Ingwiller
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008–2014)	Hugues Danner
Area^1	18.05 km^2 (6.97 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	4,060
• Density	220/km^2 (580/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	67222 / 67340
Elevation	185–371 m (607–1,217 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Ingwiller (German: Ingweiler) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine in north-eastern France.

The commune lies within the North-Vosges natural park.

History

The first known mention of Ingwiller dates from the year 742 a.C. as Ingoniunilare,^[1] 785 as Ilununilare, 1175 as Ingichwilre and 1178 in a bulla of the Pope Alexander III as Ingevilre.^[2]

On demand of Simon von Lichtenberg, the Emperor Louis IV the Bavarian imposed the village Ingveiler in the year 1345 to the town Ingveiler.^[3]

With the end of the Franco-Prussian War in the year 1870/71 Alsace-Lorraine became part of the German empire. 166 inhabitants of the town Ingwiller took the option of the Treaty of Frankfurt (1871) to remain French citizens and therefore had to leave Alsace-Lorraine towards Southern France.

People

• Norbert Cohn (1904–1989): Jazz musician born in Ingwiller.

See also

• Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

Notes

1. Krauss, Kunst und Altertum im Elsass, Straßburg 1876–92
2. Karl Letz, Geschichte der Stadt Ingweiler, Zabern 1896
3. Strobel and Engelmann: Vaterländische Geschichte des Elsaß, Straßburg 1840–49

References

• INSEE commune file