Country France Department Bas-Rhin Canton Wissembourg Area 4.32 km² Population 590 (1999) | Region Grand Est Arrondissement Haguenau-Wissembourg Time zone CET (UTC+1) Local time Sunday 11:55 AM | |
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Aschbach is a French commune in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France.
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Map of 67250 Aschbach, France
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aschbachois or Aschbachoises.
Geography
Aschbach is located some 13 km south by south-east of Wissembourg and 8 km east of Soultz-sous-Forêts. Access to the commune is by the D245 road from Stundwiller in the south passing through the village and continuing north to Seebach. With exception of a small band of forest on the western border the commune is entirely farmland.
The Seebach river forms the eastern border of the commune as it flows south to join the Seltzbach at Buhl. An unnamed stream rises in the centre of the commune and flows south-east through the village to join the Seebach on the south-eastern border.
History
In the 14th century Aschbach was the property of the Diocese of Speyer (Germany). Under the Ancien Régime Aschbach, Stundwiller, and Oberroedern formed the Superior Court with their church at Stundwiller. These three villages were merged in 1974 but Aschbach was separated again in 1988.
According to the cadastral plan of 1839 there were buildings built close together and also other places which were marshlands. The school was built in 1833, an oratory at a place called Kreutzfeld dates to 1864, and the church was built in 1871.
The village suffered terrible damage in the Second World War and reconstruction gave the village a new look with a larger and more open built-up area. The presbytery was built in 1950.
Administration
List of Successive Mayors
(Not all data is known)
Demography
In 2010 the commune had 667 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.
Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)
Sites and monuments
Aschbach has four registrations as historical monuments. These are:
The Church of the Immaculate Conception has many items which are registered as historical objects. These are: