Souffelweyersheim

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Coordinates: 48°38′08″N 7°44′30″E / 48.63555556, 7.74166667

Administration
Commune of Souffelweyersheim
Location

Country	France
Region	Alsace
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Strasbourg-Campagne
Canton	Mundolsheim
Intercommunality	Communauté urbaine de Strasbourg
Mayor	Andre Reichardt (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	133 m–153 m
Land area^¹	4,51 km²
Population^² (1999)	6 017
- Density	1,334/km² (1999)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Souffelweyersheim is a small town and commune, located in the Bas-Rhin département, Alsace région, in northeastern France.

1 Pictures
2 Etymology
3 Geography
4 History
5 List of mayors
6 Demography
7 Places and monuments
8 See also

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[edit] Etymology

Souffelweyersheim means: the village on the pond of Souffel. Souffel (the Souffel river) + Weyer (the pond) + S (of) + Heim (hamlet, village)

Locally the name is shortened and the village is called Souffel.

[edit] Geography

The village, covers an ara of 451 hectares (1114 acres), and is located at 6 km (3¾ miles) in the north of Strasbourg at an altitude of approximately 140 metres (460 ft). Located in the plain of Alsace, between the massifs of the Vosges and the Black Forest, the plain is disected by the Souffel river from which the village takes its name. This river rises in Kuttolsheim and its has its confluence with Ill river, tributary of the Rhine, a little south of Wantzenau after flowing for a distance of about a 27 km (17 miles).

[edit] History

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In 1790, on proposal of Schiltigheim, intervenes the division of the ried of Ill, hitherto public pasture common to Souffelweyersheim, Hoenheim, Bischheim, Adelshoffen and Schiltigheim.

In 1792, the emigrants, combined with the Austro-Prussians begin the hostilities to take again the capacity in France. From October at December 1793, the engagements between the troops of the French Republic and the Austro-Prussians are stabilized on a Hoenheim face - Griesheim-on-Souffel - Dingsheim before the troops Austro-Prussians are not pushed back out of Alsace in January 1794.

In 1813, Russian Campaign is a disaster for Napoleon and the French people. Napoleon manages with difficulty to return to France, but enemy forces in the Sixth Coalition follow. In January 1814, the French troops couped are Strasbourg by Cossacks who canton in Hoenheim, Bischheim and Schiltigheim. Napoleon Bonopart is forced to abdicate in favour of Louis XVIII, was banished in the isle of Elba. However Napoleon escaped from Elba and returned to France on February 26 1815 Elba and in a for a campaign that lasts a Hundred Days he attempts to remain on the throne of France. Following the defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, the General Jean Rapp, having had wind of intentions of annexation of Alsace, lined up under the orders of Louis XVIII and continued to fight on the Souffel, with the doors of Hoenheim.^{[citation needed]}

On June 28 1815 took place the battle of Souffelweyersheim-Hoenheim, opposing the Rapp general and Crown Prince of Wurtemberg. The 16,000 men of the Rapp general could not beat the 42,000 men of the troops of the Seventh Coalitio.

On June 29 1815, the day after the battle, Crown Prince of Württemberg ordered the burning of the village of Souffelweyersheim.

1852 was the year of the inauguration of two new transportation routes passing by the territory of Souffelweyersheim. The first is the channel of the Marne in the Rhine which connects Vitry-le-François in Strasbourg. The second is the railway line Paris-Strasbourg.

On July 19 1870 the Franco-Prussian War began. On August 7, shortly after the battle of Froeschwiller-Wœrth, the German troops arrive at Souffelweyersheim. The troops settled in Reichstett and began the head office of Strasbourg August 12, charges with the inhabitants of the neighbourhoods with providing for the provisioning with the troops. On September 27, Strasbourg, set fire to by the continuous bombardments, goes. The Treaty of Frankfurt, signed May 10 1871 puts an end to the war, among the conditions France must yield the three departments of the Alsace-Moselle, concervant only the Territory of Belfort.

In 1906 the marshalling yard of Hausbergen is inaugurated. It extends on the territory from several communes of which Souffelweyersheim.

On September 2 1939, the inhabitants of the communes in front of the Maginot line are evacuated in the lvallée de la Bruche (valley of the Beetle). On September 3 1939 the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and France declare the war in Germany. On September 9 a second journey awaits the evacuated inhabitants, this time their destination the South of France, they will not return to Alsace, annexed de facto by the Germans, in August 1940.

On November 23 1944 Strasbourg is liberated by the French 2nd Armoured Division of the General Leclerc.

In January 1945, a German offensive called Operation Nordwind forces a redeployment of the Allied troops north of Alsace. The General Charles de Gaulle refuses the American order to evacuate Strasbourg and the French troops end up pushing the Germans back but not before they reached Offendorf. However Souffelweyersheim and its neighbourhoods remained under the fire of the German batteries until April 1945.

A law of 1966 created the Urban Community of Strasbourg and Souffelweyersheim integrated into it. 1970 saw the completion of the construction of the motorway A34 Metz - Strasbourg, later absorptive by the A4 motorway connecting Paris in Strasbourg, skirting the sorting of Hausbergen.