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Ingwiller (; ) is a commune in the
Bas-Rhin Bas-Rhin (; Alsatian: ''Unterelsàss'', ' or '; traditional german: links=no, Niederrhein; en, Lower Rhine) is a department in Alsace which is a part of the Grand Est super-region of France. The name means 'Lower Rhine', referring to its low ...
department in
Grand Est Grand Est (; gsw-FR, Grossa Oschta; Moselle Franconian/ lb, Grouss Osten; Rhine Franconian: ''Groß Oschte''; german: Großer Osten ; en, "Great East") is an administrative region in Northeastern France. It superseded three former administ ...
in north-eastern
France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan ar ...
. 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'', 785 as ''Ilununilare'', 1175 as ''Ingichwilre'' and 1178 in a bulla of the Pope Alexander III as ''Ingevilre''.Karl Letz, ''Geschichte der Stadt Ingweiler'', Zabern 1896 On demand of Simon von Lichtenberg, the Emperor
Louis IV the Bavarian Louis IV (german: Ludwig; 1 April 1282 – 11 October 1347), called the Bavarian, of the house of Wittelsbach, was King of the Romans from 1314, King of Italy from 1327, and Holy Roman Emperor from 1328. Louis' election as king of Germany ...
imposed the village ''Ingveiler'' in the year 1345 to the town ''Ingveiler''.Strobel and Engelmann: ''Vaterländische Geschichte des Elsaß'', Straßburg 1840–49'' 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) The Treaty of Frankfurt (french: Traité de Francfort; german: Friede von Frankfurt) was a peace treaty signed in Frankfurt on 10 May 1871, at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Summary The treaty did the following: * Established the fronti ...
to remain French citizens and therefore had to leave Alsace-Lorraine towards
Southern France Southern France, also known as the South of France or colloquially in French as , is a defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Marais Poitevin,Louis Papy, ''Le midi atlantique'', A ...
.


People

* Norbert Cohn (1904–1989):
Jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a majo ...
musician born in Ingwiller.


See also

*
Communes of the Bas-Rhin department The following is a list of the 514 communes of the Bas-Rhin department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Bas-Rhin Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{BasRhin-geo-stub