Rosheim (; gsw-FR, Rose) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin 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 It superseded three former administ ...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

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/ref> It lies southwest of Strasbourg, on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains. It is a winemaking town on the tourist "Road of the Wines of Alsace" and the Route Romane d'Alsace ("Romanesque route of Alsace").

Geography

Distance from

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

450 km, Strasbourg 25 km, Obernai 7 km, Molsheim 7 km.

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 was a political entity in Western, Central, and Southern Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. From the accession of Otto I in 962 ...

, and founded the Décapole 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 (german: Westfälischer Friede, ) 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 pe ...

and finally lost its independence under the

Treaties of Nijmegen The Treaties of Peace of Nijmegen ('; german: Friede von Nimwegen) were a series of treaties signed in the Dutch city of Nijmegen between August 1678 and October 1679. The treaties ended various interconnected wars among France, the Dutch Repub ...

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 (born 1939), Nobel Prize 1987 * Claude Vasconi (born 1940), architect

References

External links

Official website

Décapole Communes of Bas-Rhin Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{BasRhin-geo-stub