Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin () is a department in Alsace which is a part of the Grand Est region of France. The name means 'Lower Rhine', referring to its lower altitude among the two French Rhine departments: it is downstream of the Haut-Rhin (Upper Rhine) de ...
Grand Est
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in north-eastern
France
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Surrounding communes are Saessolsheim and Rohr to the north-west, Willgottheim in the south-east, Zeinheim and Westhouse-Marmoutier to the south-west with Maennolsheim and Friedolsheim in the north-west.
Outside the village, much of the commune is devoted to arable agriculture. The commune contains some important employers as a result of which it employs far more people than the number of its residents: there is significant industrial and
service sector
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employment.
The commune hosts the French headquarters of
Adidas
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which employs four hundred people, as well as the
Kochersberg
The Kochersberg () is a natural region of the French département of Bas-Rhin in Alsace and is a part of the hills found along the eastern side of the Vosges mountains. It gave its name to the Communauté de communes du Kochersberg, a cooperatio ...
hotel complex, a
travel agency
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and an agricultural development business. Nevertheless, a fifth of Landersheim's own population still live from agriculture, with the production of Goat's cheese a specialty.
History
The name
Landersheim gets a mention in the Property schedule of Mauersmünster Abbey ''(“Besitzverzeichnis der Abtei Mauersmünster”)'' which was produced in the early twelfth century. Here it is named as Lantheresheim ''("Lanther's homestead")''. In the fourteenth century it turns up as “Lantersen” which becomes “Landersche” in popular parlance. The "Landersheim" spelling first appears in the Middle Ages among the imperial nobility ''(“ Reichsritterschaft”)'' of lower Alsace.
Ownership and religion
In 1595 half of the locality was in the possession of the lords of Mittelhausen, which continued until their line came to an end in 1634. They introduced the
reformation
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to the village which remained attached to the
Protestant
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parish
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of Zehnacker until 1688. The other half of the locality was held by the Holzapfel family in common with the lords of Landsberg, and they also inherited the Mittelhausen share in 1634. They reintroduced the
Catholic
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religion in 1688. A few years later, at the end of the seventeenth century, a large bourgeois family from
Strasbourg
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and
Colmar
Colmar (; ; or ) is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Alsace region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is the seat of the prefecture of the Haut-Rhin department ...
named Weinemer purchased three quarters of the village: the residual quarter remained with the Holzapfels. This ownership structure endured until
1789
Events
January–March
* January – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès publishes the pamphlet '' What Is the Third Estate?'' ('), influential on the French Revolution.
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