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Frœschwiller

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Bas-Rhin

Canton
  
Reichshoffen

Area
  
5.75 km²

Region
  
Grand Est

Arrondissement
  
Haguenau-Wissembourg

Population (2006)
  
531

Local time
  
Saturday 5:51 AM

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Weather
  
8°C, Wind SW at 34 km/h, 82% Humidity

Frœschwiller (German: Fröschweiler) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Of note is Château de Frœschwiller.

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Map of 67360 Fr%C5%93schwiller, France

The commune lies within the North Vosges regional natural park.

Historical vignettes

  • In 1552 the Protestant Reformation reached Frœschwiller when Kuno Eckbrecht of Dürckheim ordered the construction of the village's first church on the seigneurial lands.
  • On 22 December 1793 republican troops under General Lazare Hoche defeated the Habsburg Austrian army under Field Marshal Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser in the Battle of Froeschwiller. This success helped to evict the Austrians from French territory.
  • On 6 August 1870, as a result of the Battle of Frœschwiller-Wœrth, the two Alsatian départements (apart from the area that subsequently became the Territory of Belfort) as well as most of the Moselle département were lost. They would remain under German control until 1918.

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    Frœschwiller Wikipedia
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