Rosheim (; ) is a commune in the

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department in

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in north-eastern

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, on the eastern slopes of the

Vosges mountains The Vosges ( , ; ; Franconian (linguistics), Franconian and ) is a range of medium mountains in Eastern France, near its France–Germany border, border with Germany. Together with the Palatine Forest to the north on the German side of the bor ...

. It is a winemaking town on the tourist "Road of the Wines of Alsace" and the Route Romane d'Alsace ("Romanesque route of Alsace").

History

Rosheim was first mentioned in a document in 778 as Rodasheim. In 1262 it received its town charter, combined with the right to build a town wall. From the 14th to 17th centuries, Rosheim was an Imperial City of the

Holy Roman Empire The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. It developed in the Early Middle Ages, and lasted for a millennium ...

, and founded the

Décapole The Décapole (; , or ) was an alliance formed in 1354 by ten Imperial cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the Alsace region to maintain their rights. It was disbanded in 1679. In 1354 Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg ratified the treaty uniti ...

confederation with nine other Alsatian Imperial Cities in 1354, the goal was to maintain their rights. Like the other Decapolitan cities, it was awarded to

by the

Peace of Westphalia The Peace of Westphalia (, ) is the collective name for two peace treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. They ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and brought peace to the Holy Roman Empire ...

and finally lost its independence under the Treaties of Nijmegen and was annexed by France.

Population

Sights

* Church Saint-Pierre-et-Paul (building 12th century, tower 14th century, organ 18th century) * Church Saint-Etienne (18th century, belltower 12th century) * ''Maison païenne'' (“pagan house”, 12th century) * City Hall (18th century) * Old well (''Puits aux six seaux'') (17th century) * Four fortified tower-gates (13th and 14th century) * Half-timbered houses (16th century)

Notable people

* Heinrich Eggestein (ca. 1415–88), pioneering book printer *

Jean-Marie Lehn Jean-Marie Lehn (born 30 September 1939) is a French chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands. Lehn was an early innovator in the field of supramo ...

(born 1939), Nobel Prize 1987 *

Claude Vasconi Claude Vasconi (24 June 1940 – 8 December 2009) was a French architect. Vasconi was born in Rosheim, and was educated at the ''Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et de l'Industrie'' in Strasbourg. In 1964, he set up office in Paris. After de ...

(born 1940), architect

History

Population

Sights

Notable people

See also