Liepvvre — Wikipedia

Lièpvre [ljɛvʁ] is a French commune located in the administrative district of Haut-Rhin and, since the first ^is January 2021 , in the territory of the European community of Alsace, in the Grand Est region.

It is part of the historic and cultural region of Alsace.

Its inhabitants are named the Colievres.

Lièpvre owes its name to the river which sprinkles it and its origin to the priory of Lièpvre. It was for a long time the main most famous agglomeration in the Val de Lièpvre ^{[ first ]} , in Latin, and is 275 meters above sea level.

The town nestles in the heart of the Lièpvrete valley ^{[ 2 ]} . The primitive name of Lebraha is undoubtedly of Celtic origin and seems to come from the word labar (Latinized form) hence the term valle leporus around 1200. We also meet at that time the name of Levremouster , which is the Patois name of Lièpvre.

The commune of Lièpvre is bordered by peaks of the Vosges massif: in the south the Brézouard, the Taennchel and the Haut-Koenigsbourg, in the North L’Altenberg, the Chalmont, the Rocher du Coucou and the Château du Frankenbourg. The northern link is the Altenberg, which separates the Val de Val de Villé valley.

It is one of the 188 municipalities ^{[ 3 ]} From the Vosges Balloons Regional Natural Park.

Hamlets [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Musloch
• Wood the abbess
• The Grobert

Streams [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• The lièpvrette
• The fear
• Rombach: tributary of the lèpvrette which has its source near the Hingrie pass
• Le Molembach: tributary of the lièpvette
• Votingmach: tributary of the lièpvette
• Noyers stream
• Ruisseau de la Viccelle
• Vested

Communal banns [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Hamlet of Musloch Between Lièpvre and Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines: called in 1517 Museloch, in 1782 mauslauch. The name comes from the mine which was exploited from the XV ^{It is} century. At XVIII ^{It is} A century, we find Misloch or Meusloch, which was a hamlet formed of about thirteen families. He was famous in 1445 for having been the refuge of the peasants of the Val de Lièpvre who surprised the Armagnacs going to Lorraine, by inflicting a stinging defeat near the rock of the violin violin ^{[ 4 ]} . In 1545 was discovered there in 1545 which was appointed the Sainte-Anne mine. It was abandoned in 1750 because its exploitation was too expensive.
• Chalmont (697 meters above sea level): Called Nannenstol in the Charlemagne diploma in 774, then chain in 1517, Challemont in 1596, sometimes Charlemont and Karlsberg during the German occupation. In patois, Chalmont is called the Chânemont.
• Raincorne : Dominating height the outlet of the Hoimbach in its western part.
• and the Kast : hill located at the foot of the Chalmont at the southern exit of Rombach-le-Franc. The name undoubtedly comes from “Kastania” (= chestnut) since we had planted chestnut trees, whose wood was well lent to the manufacture of stakes for the vines.
• Spiemont : in German named the Voice mountain . Father Philippe-André Grandidier says that it could be the stophanberg recalled in the Charlemagne diploma in 774 for the Lièpvre monastery, but it has long been recognized that the Stophanberg is none other than Haut-Koenigsburg.
• Chopper : locality located near the Kast. We cultivated potatoes there, which could explain the meaning of “hash” (read Harh): in novel-Lorraine patois, the name “black hash” means “potato in field dress”.
• La Roche du Violin : located at the western exit of Lièpvre. This name evokes the violins of the Riquewihr thieves and the expression “to be the violin”.

Typology [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Lièpvre is a rural commune, because it is one of the municipalities that are not very little dense, in the sense of the municipal grid of density of INSEE ^{[ Note 1 ] , [ 5 ] , [ 6 ] , [ 7 ]} .
It belongs to the urban unit of Lièpvre, an intra-departmental agglomeration bringing together 2 municipalities ^{[ 8 ]} and 2,504 inhabitants in 2017, of which it is city center ^{[ 9 ] , [ ten ]} .

In addition, the town is part of the attraction area of ​​Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, of which it is a municipality of the main pole ^{[ Note 2 ]} . This area, which brings together 4 municipalities, is categorized in the areas of less than 50,000 inhabitants ^{[ 11 ] , [ twelfth ]} .

Land use [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The occupation of the soils of the town, as it emerges from the European database of Biophysical Occupation of Corine Land Cover (CLC), is marked by the importance of forests and semi-natural environments (67,1 % in 2018), a proportion significantly equivalent to that of 1990 (67.8%). The detailed distribution in 2018 is as follows:
Forests (67.1%), meadows (18.9%), urbanized areas (9.5%), heterogeneous agricultural areas (2.6%), industrial or commercial areas and communication networks (1.9%) ^{[ 13 ]} .

The IGN also provides an online tool to compare the evolution over time of the soil occupation of the municipality (or territories to different scales). Several eras are accessible in the form of aerial cards or photos: the Cassini card ( XVIII ^{It is} century), the staff map (1820-1866) and the current period (1950 to today) ^{[ 14 ]} .

Leberach (1278-1493).

leberaha , lebraha or briefing I don’t latin , Leberau in German ^{[ 15 ]} , Laweröi in Alsatian, Co Lieuf in Lorraine.

History of the priory of Lièpvre [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Village history [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Birth [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Fulrad ^{[ 16 ]} , the founder of the priory of Lièpvre ^{[ 17 ]} , had received from Charlemagne in 774, a vast territory including the Liepvette valley. On the request of Fulrad, Charlemagne grants the same year to the priory of Lièpvre a portion of the Royal taxman of Quuninhisheim (Kintzheim), to insure himself, “Divine protection and eternal bliss”.

A very large territory [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The new Fulrad domain included the whole Val de Rumbach (Rombach-le-Franc), then the crest where the two Rombach is separated. Then again the valley of the other Rombach (Grand Rombach) and the Bureberch (Berbuche and Jaboumont). From there, the limit followed the Crete des Vosges ( During Dinner and Confines ), along the old Franco-German border, and descended to the south to the Wastenloch, where Laimaha (Lièpvrette) has its source. The territory was to understand the Lièpvrete valley to the Brézouard and at the ramenthal not understood and lock up the shore of this river where the Deophanpol was to be found ^{[ 18 ]} . The limit from the Deophanpol followed first the bed of the Lièpvrete to the mouth of the Altinisbach (the vancelle) and then that of this stream to its source to go further in Nannentols (Naugigoutte?). This limit is still currently forming the demarcation between Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin. The area also included Achiniragny (La Hingrie), followed the steps of Garmaringa (Guémar) and Odelinge (Orschwiller), also followed the Lièpvette to the place where the Andembach (Votmbach) throws itself, then the bed of The latter to the Stephanberg (Haut-Koenigsbourg), this mountain being included until Steynbach (Steintal, Breitenbäche in the Orschwiller region), then passed through Rinadmarca, Odelonga and Garmaringu and then their borders to Deophanpol.

Donation [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Page 9 of ^{[ 19 ]} We read that Otton II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, in his Bruchsal Palatium, grants, the October 15, 980 , a charter to Robert, abbot of Saint-Denis, who confirms that the Lepraha abbey was bequeathed by Father Fulrad at the Abbey of Saint-Denis.
Read also page 10 of the same document, (no tax other than for the monastery) ^{[ 20 ]} .

At the end of the Middle Ages, most of the area already belonged to the Dukes of Lorraine, by usurpation on the Abbey of Saint-Denis.

The looting and ravages of the wars of the Middle Ages [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Of X ^{It is} At XIV ^{It is} century, the chronicles of the time revealed some detailed details to us on the monastery, but very little about the facts which have a relationship with the inhabitants and the village. However, some stories where Lièpvre is directly involved are reported.

Before XIV ^{It is} A century, the evidence of the ducal action on the region are quite rare, but the documents are enough to demonstrate that the Dukes of Lorraine were already the real masters of the Val de Lièpvre. But having some difficulties in governing the distant province, they gave it by subservience or by fiefs to local lords who were mandated to defend the interests of the Dukes of Lorraine and defend the valley.

Conrad De Lichtenberg [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The valley is attacked towards the XIII ^{It is} century by the troops of the Bishop of Strasbourg, Conrad de Lichtenberg. His troops frequently make raids in the valley and particularly in Lièpvre. He is in conflict with Lorraine and the Eckericks, vassals of the Dukes of Lorraine since the first half of XIII ^{It is} century. Frequent altercations had already taken place before between the Lichtenberg and Lorraine which lasted until 1290, the year during which a daughter of the Duke of Lorraine married Conrad of Friborg whose mother was a lichtenberg. To celebrate this reconciliation, the Bishop of Strasbourg invited a large number of representatives of the Alsatian and Lorraine nobility in its palace in Strasbourg. After so many years of war, the Val de Lièpvre experienced 48 years of peace.

Bucheck Investit Le Val de Lièpvre Berthold [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

In 1331, Jean d’Echerick entered war alongside the Duke of Lorraine against the Count of Bar. He ravages Bertrimoutier, Provenchères-sur-Fave, Remomeix, Sainte-Marguerite and attracts the canons Jean de Toulon, Geoffroy d’Herbeuviller and Nicolas de Porcher who commanded the chapter troops in an ambush, the captures and encloses them in his dungeon High Echery for which he claims 750 pounds tournament of ransom ^{[ 21 ]} . In 1338, the imperial cities were at war with the bishop of Strasbourg Berthold de Bucheck. Jean d’Echery commands the selestat troops. For reprisals, the bishop joins the Baron de Hohenstein, Landvogt d’Alsace, to ravage the Val de Lièpvre and besiege the Château d’Echery. He is accompanied by the troops of Jean Senn, bishop of Basel. Lièpvre and Rombach-le-Franc are burnt down; The Lièpvre convent is partially destroyed.

Liepvre rowing truckers [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The July 4, 1365 , the valley is attacked by groups of mercenaries named truckers led by Arnaud de Cervole (1300-1366) says the archpriest, famous chief in the big companies at XIV ^{It is} century. He is therefore nicknamed because he receives revenues from the Archprété de Vélines and is at the service of Charles V. This one tries to chase the big companies from France.

Arnaud de Cervole said he wanted to spare the fields of the Church, it is not. Pope Innocent VI launched an appeal to the crusade against these “heretics” who attacked the property of the Church. Arnaud therefore invades the Val de Lièpvre, via the Saverne pass, with its 40,000 mercenaries. He is also in service for the Count of Blamont who is at war with the Bishop of Strasbourg. He ravages the Val de Lièpvre and sets fire to Lièpvre, Rombach-le-Franc and Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines. Arnaud was killed the following year, near Mâcon.

The Bishopers [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The scoundrels, which are called in the eastern France the “Armagnacs”, are rampant in France of the XV ^{It is} century under the reign of Charles VII.

After the Franco-English truce of 1444, Charles VII employs them against Lorraine and Alsace. This militia of 300,000 men consisted of French, English and Spanish. 1,000 Scottish also participated, under the leadership of Jean de Montgomery who had since September 1444 His headquarters in Châtenois. The Armagnacs were under the leadership of the dolphin (Louis XI) and had entered Alsace in 1444, forcing the cities and villages to submit and subject to populations the worst treatments to those who opposed it. They take Saint-Hippolyte, then set fire to Geispolsheim, besiege Dambach-la-Ville, Obernai, Rhinau and Mulhouse, take Eguisheim, Marckolsheim, Niedernai and Herrlisheim. They plunder the Mutzig region, as well as the abbey of Pairis (in Orbey), Rouffach and Rosheim. Villaged, then surrounded by ditches and a surrounding wall flanked by 9 laps, was also taken and shaved. To prevent Lièpvre from being completely destroyed, the village submits to the Dauphin, as well as the neighboring town Rombach-le-Franc. Lièpvre will be destroyed in 1445 by these troops, after the famous battle of Saint-Jacques near Basel.

Armagnacs are defeated in the valley [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

After having camped for more than a year in Alsace, the “Armagnacs” left the province in the spring of 1445, at the request of Charles VII, worried about the bad news that reached him. Part of these troops by withdrawing from Lorraine crossed the Val de Lièpvre on Thursday before Sunday of the twigs, and was surprised by the troops of the city of Schlestadt (Sélestat) commanded by Henri Gunther “Lang” ^{[ 22 ]} , the intendant of the Sainte Foy priory to which the peasants of Villé, Rombach-le-Franc, Lièpvre and Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines had joined. Ulrich de Rathsamhausen, the Obernai provost and his peasants grew the ranks of Gunther to organize resistance. From the top of the mountains, camouflaged in the bushes, they see reasons of endless columns of riders and trolleys. They rolled huge districts of rocks and tree trunks on the Armagnacs near the place called La Roche des Violons near the road which goes to Musloch, at a place called the Rocher du Violin. The Armagnacs lost up to 300 men. Among the dead there is a Scottish Landgrave, and the Marshal of the Palais du Dauphin, brother-in-law of the king and who could be Jean de Montgomery. The attackers took up the loot they had collected from the Armagnacs: 9 cannons, 400 horses, 9 banners, one of which belonged to the Swiss. There are also 80 armor, 6000 gold guilders and a large amount of flat dishes, several tons of powder and tools of all kinds.

Charles VII learning the news of the Lièpvre disaster set out in a terrible anger accusing of treachery and perfidy those who had so quickly advised it for the crossing of the Vosges, and in particular the Margrave of Baden, responsible for his mouths on fire which were now in the hands of the bourgeois of Sélestat. It is undoubtedly on this occasion that an iron spur was lost whose wheel is formed by six lilies flowers and which was found in 1815 in the vicinity of Lièpvre.

Count Palatine and the Bishop of Strasbourg take revenge [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

After the departure of the Armagnacs, the troops of Count Palatine, the bishop and the city of Strasbourg were vengeed on the inhabitants of Lièpvre and Rombach-le-Franc on the pretext that they had favored the entrance to the Armagnacs in the valley liepvette. They stood and ravaged the valley and set fire everywhere. It is undoubtedly because of these ravages that the absence must be attributed, so to speak of any monument prior to the XVI ^{It is} century. It is also undoubtedly because of these ravages that we owe the disappearance of the remains of the bones of Father Fulrad which rested to the priory of Lièpvre.

Conflict between the Duke of Lorraine and the Lord of Geroldseck [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Towards May 1516 , the Duke of Lorraine, Antoine, is in conflict with the Lord of Geroldseck, near Saverne of the house of the Wangen, about the mines located in the Val de Lièpvre ^{[ 23 ] , [ 24 ]} . Unable to make his cause triumph with his own forces, Geroldseck called François de Sickingen a famous adventurer to his help. He supported by hiring a gang of 6,000 men who seized Saint-Hippolyte by surprise. He and his men cause quite significant damage in the valley ^{[ 25 ]} . The Duke Antoine bought the neutrality of Sickingen, and entered the Val de Lièpvre where the troops of Geroldseck which barred the passage were defeated. He then resumed Saint-Hippolyte and had his head cut to a resident of this city who had favored the entrance to the enemy.

The Duke of Lorraine also had a dispute with the emperor Charles Quint in the years 1519 to 1521 for the same reason. These difficulties were settled amicably by an arbitration award in 1521. The deliberations of this report are contained in a register in the departmental archives of Meurthe-et-Moselle.

In May 1574, soldiers crossed the valley by squadrons of 100 to 200 men, but did not commit damage ^{[ 26 ]} . During the month of December 1575 Swiss mercenaries took the same path. The Duke of Lorraine orders his subjects to provide them with food at an affordable price, so that they do not moles the inhabitants but asks them to monitor them very closely and refuse them entry into the walled cities.

Rustauds [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

It was around April 17, 1525 that peasants raised themselves from Basel to Wissembourg, and took the name of rustauds. Their rallying cry was “Vive Luther”. About 40,000 men are mobilizing and dividing into seven bands with Erasmus Gerber. Their opponents are nobility and especially the clergy.

It was in Molsheim that the movement took the most importance, then the revolt won the Val de Villé and the Lorraine city of Saint-Hippolyte. The parish priest of Villu and Wolgang Schuh, parish priest of Saint-Hippolyte, made the zealous propagators of the new religion by causing their parishioners. THE April 18, 1525 An army of peasants plunders and burns the Altorf monastery. The Abbey of Honcourt near Villé, the Abbey of Baumgarten near Andlau and several other monasteries are looted and destroyed in turn. THE May 13, 1525 The peasants go to Ribeauvillé and the 14th in Riquewihr. They then go to Val de Lièpvre and occupy the villages of Lièpvre and Rombach-le-Franc. During these revolts, encouraged by the Protestants, the peasants of the Val de Lièpvre, oppressed, are raised against the nobility. They are promised freedom. The rustauds receive the reinforcements of the peasants of Ribeauvillé, Riquewihr, Bergheim, Sigolsheim, Ammerschwihr and Kaysersberg.

A resident of Lièpvre named Le Grand Hannezo, leads to some inhabitants of the two localities to attack the priory. They smash doors and windows, throw the works, break the stained glass. After having caused major damage to the priory, they invite women and children from the villages of Lièpvre and Rombach-le-Franc to participate in the feasts. They drink and eat as much as they can. Encouraged by a man named Jacques de Lusse, the Grand Hannezo sounds the bell of the priory to bring the population to bring together by acclamation of hatred to priests and lords, the abolition of tithes, the pooling of hunting, fishing and forests. They carried wheat, hay, straw and oats that the monks had stored as well as various foods. They created a new justice under the orders of “Marshal Jehan” accompanied by the Grand Hannezo ^{[ 27 ]} .

A young provost of Senonville who went to a wine merchant in Raon-l’Etape is taken prisoner by the inhabitants of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines, Lièpvre and Rombach-le-Franc and is taken to Lièpvre. The Grand Hannezo and his companions then headed for the Val de Villé hoping to win the same success, but the population refuses to follow them. They then go to Saint-Hippolyte where they receive better welcome.

Rustauds that lift pillage and burn “to better regenerate the church and society”. In September, an important column of rustauds tried to surprise the city of Saint-Dié by the Vosges. But the inhabitants sounded the tocsin, which allowed to disperse them. This event decided the Duke Antoine de Lorraine to get out of his reserve and to oppose the invasion of the Lutheans in his states. He had all the Vosges passes occupied by a company of Lansquenets under the orders of Gérard d’Haraucourt ^{[ 28 ]} . Antoine de Lorraine, at the head of a well -seasoned army, puts an end to this uprising and restores order. Preparing to return to Lorraine, the Duke is warned that 16,000 recalcitrants come together near Sélestat to attack the Val de Villé. The Duke and his fighters immediately turn around and go back to the offensive. The fugitives who believed to escape the favor of the night gathered in Scherwiller where the population is favorable to them. The Duke had the village of Scherwiller set fire, near Sélestat the May 20, 1525 . More than 5,000 insurgents are ruthlessly massacred by Lorraine troops.

Grand Hannezo is arrested and imprisoned in a Saint-Dié prison where he will spend four months. He will be pardoned by the Duke following the supplication of his family ^{[ 29 ]} .

One of the leaders, the parish priest Wolfgang Schuh (1493-1525), from Saint-Hippolyte, abjure the Catholic faith and marries, followed by many of his parishioners. After the riots, he was arrested by Gaspard d’Haussonville, governor of Blamont, sentenced to death by a court of the Inquisition and burned alive in Nancy the June 21, 1525 . Others are taken to captivity in Lorraine and are only released on payment of ransoms. After the defeat of the Rustauds, the Duke of Lorraine sent a detachment in the Val de Lièpvre with the mission of bringing the population into the rank. The inhabitants of the Val de Lièpvre, some of which are from Rombach-le-Franc, and Lièpvre who had joined the anti-Catholic riots only obtained forgiveness on very hard conditions. They were notably forced to walk, through the forest, bare feet in procession to the sanctuary of Dusenbach (Ribeauvillé). As for the inhabitants of Saint-Hippolyte, they had to endure the greatest punishment since the Duke Antoine held his subjects as particularly heretical because they had not only sympathized with the rustauds] but also with the reform.

Bag by the Marquis de Durlach [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Lièpvre, but also Rombach-le-Franc, town located 2 km , were invaded in 1592 by the troops of the Marquis de Durlach de la Maison de Baden, hostile to the Duke of Lorraine. They occupied the Val de Lièpvre during the winter of the same year and sack the valley which is partly burnt down.

The Marquis had once served the Duke of Lorraine with a Lansquenets regiment and left him in 1590 for a dispute about the balance of his soldiers. He hoped to be paid by invading the Val de Lièpvre. The Duke of Lorraine was not warned of this invasion that the January 12, 1593 . He immediately took measures, and the January 16 A regiment led by L. de Bonnayde arrived in Lièpvre. Other troops joined them, under the orders of the bailiff of Nancy, Renaud de Gournay. The war lasted until 1604.

The Thirty Years War [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The thirty -year is a series of armed conflicts which torn Europe from 1618 to 1648. The fights take place initially and mainly in the territories of Central Europe depending on the Holy Roman Empire, but imply most of the European powers, at the notable exception of England and Russia. In the second part of the period, the fighting is also carried out in France, in the Netherlands, Northern Italy, Catalonia, etc. During these thirty years, war gradually changed in nature and object: started as a religious conflict, it ends in political struggle between France and the House of Austria.

Entry into war [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The duchy of Lorraine, which was officially part of the Empire, included the bailiwicks of Nancy and the Vosges, separated from the Bailiwick of Germany further north (German -speaking region of the current department of the Moselle) by the lands of the bishopric of Metz. The Dukes of Lorraine hitherto tried to maintain a certain neutrality vis-à-vis France and the Empire, by a skilled policy practiced successively by the Dukes Charles III (1559-1608) and Henri (1608-1624) . It was the arrival of the power of Duke Charles IV in 1624 which, by becoming relationships with France, led to the Duchy of Lorraine in turmoil about fifteen years later. The Duchy of Lorraine was then occupied and administered by France.

“Swedish” looting [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

In 1632, Alsace was traveled by bands of imperial and Lorraine soldiers who plunder the countryside and the cities. Lorraine troops installed in Haguenau are decimated by typhoid and contaminate the population. The Val de Lièpvre which has so far been relatively spared by the looting of the imperials must now face a new danger with the arrival of Swedish troops. The legend talks about Swedish, but in reality there are very few Scandinavian soldiers: the soldiers who compose it come from various horizons but are in reality at the service of the Duke Bernard de Saxe-Weimar and the King of France. They behave in human, looting, rampant, torturing, violating and killing the inhabitants. The profanations of churches follow one another the hangings of priests and monks.

They take the December 12, 1632 de Sélestat, then in June 1633 from Villé, then of the Frankenburg castle, whose ruin undoubtedly dates from this seat: in July they begin the attack on Haut-Koenigsbourg which capitulates the July 7 ; From there they make forays throughout the Val de Lièpvre. They attack the priory of Lièpvre which is looted and set fire in September to 70 houses in Lièpvre. From there they go to Rombach-le-Franc, and ransom the population. However, the village escapes fire.

By devastating the entire Lièpvrete valley, the Swedes also bring the plague. However, Lorrainers manage to make frequent incursions in the Val de Lièpvre with the Duke Charles IV at its head. The situation is so tragic that the Val superintendent obtains permission to leave the valley. Justice is no longer rendered. The Swedes also plunder the crops and the still cultivable fields are very often burned, because some captains practice the tactics of “the burned earth” to exhaust and starve the population. The peasants and the inhabitants who were able to escape the killings are often without food and die of famine. In 1635 the inhabitants of Lièpvre and Rombach-le-Franc were exempt from the size due to the ravages of the plague and the wars. From 1635 to 1641, the Val de Lièpvre was occupied by France. A year later, the Lorrainers were again masters of the Val de Lièpvre, then France again occupied Lorraine from 1641 to 1659 and again from 1670 to 1697.

In 1648, Alsace was attached to France, and the Val de Lièpvre, which remained Lorraine, was increasingly borrowed by the various armies which joined the plain of Alsace. Louis XIV went twice to Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines during the year 1673 the August 27 and the September 3 . In 1674 the war raged: the Duke of Lorraine, Charles IV, was stripped of his states and will join the imperial army which invaded Alsace. One of his lieutenant, Colonel du Puy, is on the road to the Val de Lièpvre and tries to take part of the French troops on the other side of the Vosges. Instead of going through the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines pass, he bypasses the mountain kept by French troops via Hingrie and Lubine. He had the Bénamenil in a daring raid in a daring raid in Bénamenil, near Lunéville.

Local conflict about forests [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The Hinterwald (or Saarbachwald) forest was the subject of numerous arguments because the municipalities of Bergheim and Saint-Hippolyte and Orschwiller had rights. Indeed, she was a part, at the origin of the domain that Charlemagne had detached from the Kintzheim taxman to give it in 774 to the priory of Lièpvre.

In 1431, a conflict broke out between Lièpvre, Saint-Hippolyte and Bergheim about Bois l’Abbesse, a forest which belonged to the Sainte Richarde abbess of Andlau. Since X ^{It is} century The Abbey of Andlau had contiguous properties with those of Lièpvre, located at the bottom of the village on the territory today part of the town of Kintzheim. These are the meadows of the selestat hospice, designated at the time under the name of AbtinStinhurst or Graveloch. It is claimed that they were part of the colongous courtyard that Andlau’s abbey owned in Kintzheim. The father of Saint Richarde, the founder of Andlau Abbey, was accused of having appropriated part of the forest of the priory of Lièpvre. The territories granted by Charlemagne have not undergone any change since the VIII ^{It is} century ; This interpretation is based on a document signed by Lothaire in 854 where on the back of the diploma was the registration in Latin “Confirmation of Hlotharius Emperor of Sylva belong to Fulradovillare, which abstract erkengarus commencies of Audo Wilvillare» . This forest was finally shared in 1436 between the three municipalities.

Forest operations and pastures once represented important points of friction between the different municipalities due to economic factors. The monks of the priory of Lièpvre took their animals to the heights of the Taennchel, in particular pigs which loved the fruits of oaks whose mountain was covered. An agreement between the Alsatian municipalities and the priory of Lièpvre attributed to each of the municipalities of the territories which were open to the Glande. These territories called by the Alsatians under the name of Hinterwald were delimited between the communities of Orschwiller, Bergheim and Saint-Hippolyte by a rendered judgment the April 15, 1516 . In this act, Lièpvre is entitled to the gleaned for its animals of the day of the exaltation of the cross until Christmas and the rest of the year between the three other municipalities. The city of Saint-Hippolyte has held Kelblin and the Hinterwald forests since that time.

Following the French occupation of the Val de Lièpvre the villages of Bergheim, Saint-Hippolyte, Orschwiller and Kintzheim come into conflict with the Saint-Georges collegiate church in Nancy about the forests that were part of the property of the Lièpvre priory. Taking advantage of the disorder caused by the Thirty Years War and the weakening of the Duchy of Lorraine, the Alsatian cities seized (with the support of France to which they have been attached from the Ryswick Treaty in 1697) of the Kelblin forests and Hinterwald. These forests which extended on the southern slope of the Val de Lièpvre from Kintzheim belonging to the city of Sélestat, to Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines, were formerly common to the inhabitants of Lièpvre and the Plaine.

The Treaty of Paris signed on July 18, 1718 has ended the disputes ^{[ 30 ]} . This treaty was signed by Jean Feydieu, Gruyer de Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines for the Val de Lièpvre, Daniel Luc Weinemer, Lord of Landersheim Advisor to the King, and bailiff of the bailiwick of Châtenois and Captain Preniot for Saint-Hippolyte. In this act concluded between the commissioners of the King of France, Nicolas Prosper Bauyin, lord of Angervilliers, adviser to the king, and those of the Duke of Lorraine, Léopold I ^is , we grant the Hinterwald forest in Bergheim, Saint-Hippolyte and Orschwiller, from the confluence of the Street du Votmbach to the summit of the Rocher named Reinolstein on the mountain of Taennchel, without prejudice to the inhabitants of Lièpvre who can bring their herds in accordance to the arbitration sentence signed on Sunday of jubilate of the year 1516. The Spiemont forest is declared belonging to the municipality of Lièpvre and being part of the sovereignty of Lorraine. In addition, the delegates recognizing the right of gleaned for the inhabitants of Lièpvre and pasture throughout the extent of the forests of Bergheim, Saint-Hippolyte and Orschwiller. However, in the event of war, the inhabitants of Lièpvre are required to withdraw their cattle. This treaty confirms in a way an extract from the judgment of January 5, 1513 Signed by the Regency of Ensisheim and the three municipalities and Jean de Wickram administrator of the priory of Lièpvre. The geographic maps were recorded by MM. BROUTIN Engineer and Buignon Engineer at the service of the King of France in 1718 which exactly indicate the limits of each municipality. Twenty six terminals were established comprising a Greek cross on the top of each stone from the vote of the vote to the summit of the Reinolstein where the terminal is located n ^O 1 indicating the date of October 24, 1718 representing the date of the Treaty of Paris. Terminal n ^O 13 According to the report of the treaty implanted in the Pré de Spizematt. Another lying Pierre-Borne was on the path leading to Thannenkirch in a place called Klosterpfad, the abbey path with the n ^O 18 which was partly erased.

In 1737, the Treaty of Vienna gave the Duchies of Lorraine and Bar to the ex-king of Poland Stanislas, who by secret convention with Louis XV assured the meeting, of these two duchies to France. Much later, Lièpvre initiated a trial which lasts from 1776 to 1791, for the properties of Kelblin wood, but loses its cause. Today, the wood of Spiemont and the ancient clears made on the outskirts of the village, between the forest and the liepvrete, today remains today. The Hinterwald forest generally extended to the forests located in the Liepvette valley, on the slope of Taennchel, between the rocks of the Reinolstein and Ramelstein to the pagan wall. The Hinterwald forest has been at the center of frequent disputes between the town of Lièpvre and its Alsatian neighbors since the XVI ^{It is} century.

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	Lièpvre’s weapons are thus built: “Azure to the patriarchal cross raised with gold. »»

In currency : «Fulradi Villare in Valle Le Brahens» .

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Between January and April 1814, Napoleon I ^is , must face an army of coalition troops determined to do battle with him. It includes Russia, England, Sweden, Austria, and several ancient Napoleon allies in the number of which we find Bavaria and Wurtemberg. The Austrians of 120,000 enter France via Switzerland. The Prussians and the Russians go through the Rhine. From the first days of January 1814, the soldiers occupied the Val de Lièpvre and established makeshift camps there in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines, Lièpvre and Rombach-le-Franc. The Bavarian troops of General Deroy commanding 5000 men are the first to cross the Crete des Vosges. Then from 1815 to 1818 Austrian occupation troops, commanded by Colonel Comte de Cassada came to camp in the town. This company is housed in the old “horses” which was at the location where the offices of the Alsatian furniture company are today.

Before the appearance of the municipal administration, Lorraine villages were most often governed by a lord. The Val de Lièpvre was an exception, since since Charlemagne the population of the valley had a special regime. It was the monks of the priory of Lièpvre who had absolute power over the mass of peasants and the population and who distributed the large land and rural areas, which protected subjects and did justice. Since the Carolingian period, they were the ones who had the real power.

With the disappearance of the last Carolingians, the power of the monks will disappear significantly, giving way to local warriors or lords who monopolized goods belonging to the priory of Lièpvre. But Lièpvre monks will not be fully discolved and will keep all of their property for a while. They will benefit for a very long time from the protection of the powerful abbey of Saint-Denis who was in reality the true owner of the valley since the death of Father Fulrad in 784, and most of the sovereigns who governed the kingdom.

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Around the year 1200, the peasants and those who worked for the monks received some small privileges; They were able to cultivate the land for their own need, as well as clearing the forest on the condition of paying franchise rights and regularly paying a fee on the surpluses of their harvest. In fact, the economic reality of the valley was rather better than elsewhere and this emancipation was rather well received as a significant improvement in the peasant condition. This franchise was also extended to other provinces, on the other side of the Vosges, and all the other lords were forced to imitate them. Later, the monks of Lièpvre cannot defend by themselves the valley alienated part of them to local lords, who then shared part of the royalties with those of the priory. Thus, around 1232 the valley was protected by the lords of Eckerich. These nobles, originally from Lorraine had enriched themselves thanks to the exploitation of silver mines whose monks from Gorze abbey had started production in X ^{It is} century. They were ousted by the Sires of Echery.

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At the request of the priory of Lièpvre or Saint-Denis, this family was also responsible for protecting the goods from the whole valley. This dynasty died out of the last member of the family around 1381. The Val de Lièpvre was at the time part of the Germanic Roman Empire that several contenders were disputed between 1254 and 1273, when Rodolphe de Habsburg was elected emperor. He therefore reigned a certain anarchy in the Kingdom and the Val was the subject of frequent passages. To monitor these untimely back and forth of enemy troops, many lords erected strong castles in the region. Echery’s nobles had a castle built that they named the Hoh-Eckerich in the Petit Rombach valley where the road driving in Lorraine passed. The lords of Echery were powerful enough, so much so that they could set up troops for their own account. They warned against their neighbors, and were feared and respected because of their bravery.

Jean d’Echery stood out during the war he made in the chapter of Saint-Dié and later against the bishop of Strasbourg when he commanded the troops of Sélestat. After the extinction of the last of the lords of Echéry, half of the valley will be shared between the Duke of Lorraine and the Sires of Rappolstein (Ribeaupierre). THE December 9, 1399 The Burgfried Treaty enters the sharing of the valley. The dukes of Lorraine shared the villages of Lièpvre, Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines, Rombach-le-Franc and a part of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines to the left of the liepvrette which they subservient to the nobles of Hatstatttt ^{[ thirty first ]} . The Maximin and Schassmann brothers of Ribeaupierre received the other half: Saint-Blaise, Ferstrupt, Échéry and the part of Sainte-Marie which was on the right of the liepvette. This division of the valley will last for four centuries, that is to say until the Revolution of 1789.

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The priory of Lièpvre, who had a good part of the valley, had very extensive legal rights. This priory dependent on the powerful abbey of Saint-Denis is therefore she who actually exercised justice in this corner of Alsace through the prior which was appointed by it. These rights were confirmed by a bubble of 1259. But the dukes of Lorraine as dedicated, that is to say of temporal protectors of the priory, ousted Saint-Denis, too far to defend themselves. The jurisdiction passed to XV ^{It is} whole century in their hands ^{[ 32 ]} . Administration and justice were not, like today, carefully separated. The same agent could combine very much judicial, administrative, financial or even military powers. At the beginning, those who exercised these multiple functions carried the title of mayer or mayor. At the time, there were three mayors at the time in the valley. Lièpvre and the German Rombach (now Rombach-le-Franc) had only one community. There were two others in Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines and Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines. These mayors were the representatives of the lords and not of the inhabitants. They were therefore chosen by the Lord of Hattstatt and the Duke of Lorraine.

This summary organization was long enough, until the day when the number of German minors increasing, frequent brawls burst out between them and French -speaking people. In patent letters of May 21, 1547 The captain of Spitzemberg, man of the Duke of Lorraine, is appointed vigilante (in German Bailiff ) Val de Lièpvre. He could occupy the castle of Zuckmantel which was built in Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines when it came to the valley. He could appoint a sworn agent to replace him when he was absent on the sole condition that he also masters the German language. THE December 15, 1548 , the captain of Spitzemberg also accumulates the burden of superintendent of the mines of the Val de Lièpvre following the death of the superintendent of the mines. From then on, we will get into the habit of giving the title of Superintendent in all circumstances.

The Val de Lièpvre being eccentric and landlocked in the midst of foreign possessions, the Duchy of Lorraine had a particular care to proclaim his rights on this corner to which he held very much, because of the mines and to have an entry into Alsace. The Duke himself reaffirms this sovereignty loud and clear in various acts.

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In the Middle Ages, it is the village communities that administer forests and land on behalf of the Lord or Duke of Lorraine under the control of officers appointed by him. For Lièpvre, the provost is responsible for controlling the entire administration. He delegates part of his prerogatives from the commune of Lièpvre, to the mayor or mayer which has very wide powers. He controls for example community property, visits forests, paths, ovens, mills, and pronounces police regulations. He pronounces fines for forest or country crimes. Subsequently the mayor is seconded by alderman who sit three in number: the master alderman, also called a lieutenant of mayor, the alderman and the small alderman, the sergeant or dean, and from 1583 by a clerk.

There are six annial plaids per year. The previous Sunday, at the exit of the mass, the mayor warns the inhabitants, of the day and the place where the plaid will be held. All the inhabitants are required to attend under penalty of fine. The mayor then declared the session open and notes the absences, then pronounces the fines unless there is a valid reason. The meetings must take place in serenity and not disturbed by cries and heckling. The jurors who are mostly simple craftsmen receive compensation. The clerk then lists the country fines incurred in the year. The observations of the culprits are then taken into account by the mayor is, that is to say, pronounces the fine. The mayor himself is in turn to account for the administration.

Each year is the election by the inhabitants of new representatives: mayor, alderman, sergeant, clerk, bangard and forest, then comes the service of the oath. We then name the Paulier presented by the decimators, who fixes the salary of the schoolmaster, who also decides to make the repairs of the church and the presbytery, of the bridges. The mayor also decides new regulations and sets the hours of cabarets and preventing parents from bringing small children who would disturb the offices to mass. These anal plaids organized uniformly from 1598 by an order of Charles III lasted until the Revolution. Subsequently, the mayor was discharged from the administration of the forests and then moved to the Gruries. From 1615, the mayor no longer lifted the tax. This task is entrusted to the elected official, then to the following century to asseyers and collectors. Following the French occupation during the thirty -year war, the ducal power imposed itself more in the communities. An order supplemented by that of 1753 permanently removed the right to the inhabitants to appoint their mayor and other municipal officers. They were appointed by the provost and had to take an oath to the chief town of the jurisdiction.

In 1738, the municipal administration in place for centuries, composed of the mayor, the aldermen, the sergeant, the clerk was modified by the Duke Stanislas. Indeed one of the first orders was the abolition of aldermen for the benefit of a trustee elected each year by the inhabitants who was responsible for municipal accounts. From this time there is a mayor, his lieutenant, the sergeant and the clerk appointed by the provost. All the pieces of that time begin with these words: “The trustees, mayor and residents gathered in communities …”. The control established by King Stanislas on the administration became more rigorous, especially after the meeting of Lorraine to France. It was necessary to undergo the very powerful will of the intendant and his bailiwick delegate. This diet lasted half a century. It is ultimately the edict of January 8, 1787 which created provincial assemblies, district assemblies and municipal assemblies. Could only be elected the owners over the age of 25, the parish priest, the clerk, the trustee. All should at least know how to read and write and belong to the class of the bourgeois (first class of taxpayers). From 1790, each municipality organized the election of its own elected officials. THE August 11, 1789 The tithes are deleted. The revolution requires priests the civic oath under penalty of deprivation of pension or even deportation in the event of disturbances to public order.

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From 1660 Duke Charles IV returned to business (1661-1670) encouraged the arrival of populations to repopulate the towns and villages which were decimated by the Thirty Years War. The rural economy is completely disorganized, land and forests are fallow. He encourages the arrival of new inhabitants who will occupy the abandoned houses or farms from the Val de Lièpvre. As early as 1663 we saw colonists from Switzerland, Val d’Orbey, Vosges, Savoie or Val d’Aosta or even Mulhouse arriving. The ravages of the Thirty Years War reduced in very important proportions the population of The valley. As the return of peace The Duke of Lorraine, is working to fill the void left in cities and countryside by encouraging the arrival of new inhabitants. Charles IV provides broad support to the factories of sheets and silk which are exempt from the right of bourgeoisie ^{[ 33 ]} and taxes for six years. In addition, he encouraged the arrival in the Val de Lièpvre d’Anabaptistes to occupy the abandoned farms.

He also grants a tax franchise to all the new inhabitants who settle in the Lorraine villages and in the Val de Lièpvre. Anabaptists from Switzerland, chased by the economic crisis and the jacquerie had already settled in 1653 in the Val de Lièpvre administered by the Ribeaupierre who had developed the stubble and the transhumance system. It is also found on the side of the Val de Lièpvre administered by Lorraine, particularly in Hingrie and in isolated hamlets of Lièpvre and Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines. They are particularly appreciated for their competence in agricultural matters by the wealthy bourgeois or the lords. They renovate and enlarge the old hors and firm abandoned. They also clear the forests. After the death of Duke Charles IV, one of his successors the Duke Léopold I ^is will continue the same policy by trying to raise the local economy. By letters patent of September 28, 1711 , he creates a market in Lièpvre every Thursday and three times a year, the 11 mars , July 26 And October 22 To allow peasants to sell their goods. These fairs had the same privileges as those of Bruyères or Saint-Dié in the Vosges. It will grant a year of tax deductible to all foreigners who build in the towns of the Val. Thanks to these measures, Lièpvre, but also the other communes will find some prosperity and the Val will repeat themselves fairly quickly thanks to the arrival of new inhabitants of Savoy, Orbey, Fréland, Bonhomme or even Vosges.

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After the invasions and looting of the Middle Ages, Lièpvre had trouble getting up. It is ultimately only from the XVI ^{It is} century that the village began to undertake construction and rehabilitation work. We built a courthouse during the Renaissance period. This courthouse no longer exists today. In 1839 we still saw on the ground floor of this building a room garnished with arcades and a large fireplace including several sculptures dating from the Renaissance, that is to say from the XVI ^{It is} century.

In the village, there was also a curious monument during the same period, known as the Maison des Princes, which was demolished in XIX ^{It is} century to make room for a new bridge. It was located at the bottom of the village, vis-à-vis the old monastery. It had been built by the Dukes of Lorraine and served as a meeting point for hunting. On one of the walls of this house one could see a mural of natural magnitude representing the dukes of Lorraine in hunting clothes. This house originally had two floors. At the corner facing the bridge was inside a rotating staircase, which started from the cellar to the attic. When it is demolished at XIX ^{It is} A century, we still saw a crossroads that made this staircase day. Its architecture left no doubt about the era at which it was built: the era of the Renaissance.

In the Middle Ages Lièpvre was surrounded by a wall, this is at least what Specklin claims, one of the columnists of the XVIII ^{It is} century which added that it was shaved in 1445 during the ransacking of the town by the Count Palatine and the bishop of Strasbourg in retaliation of the submission of the population to the Armagnacs. At XVIII ^{It is} Century, Lièpvre is made up of the hamlet of Musloch with thirteen families, and twelve covers divided into 220 families. The King of France has been the sovereign since the sale of Lorraine which was made to him in 1736 and 1737. The cathedral chapter of the Nancy primatial, succeeding the rights of the former priory of Lièpvre, is a coller and decimator for a third party . The priest perceives the other two thirds ^{[ 34 ]} .

The September 28, 1711 , the Duke Léopold, established by letters patent at Lièpvre des fairs and markets. Louis XVI, by his edict of October 1776 attached justice to the royal provost of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines. But this edict was revoked by the Parliament of Nancy in July 1782 which ordered that the Lorraine villages of the Val de Lièpvre would now depend on the presidial bailiwick of Saint-Dié. The Val de Lièpvre is attached to the death of King Stanislas Leczinski in 1766 to France.

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The municipality of Lièpvre had in the Middle Ages a certain number of very famous mines. The mines of Sainte-Anne and Saint-Thomas in Musloch, Holy Spirit in Creusepré (Gleisprey) of the Herrschaftt, Saint-Jean, Fincenstreich, Grand Feldort, and the Kast of Stolle Aymé were exploited for a long time by Lorraine miners . The most important vein on the left bank of the Liepvette in Musloch represented a corridor with a length of 2.5 km . To the east, south of Lièpvre we still find the old mines of Creusepré. The mines of Sainte-Anne, Herrschafft and Saint-Jean in Musloch were discovered in 1526. In 1750 was discovered at the Saint-Anne de l’Argent, Rosette and lead mine. Another mine called in the old “Schwymbach” documents (Schweinsbach) in Lièpvre is also operated at the same time.

Between 1533 and 1546, four new projects were opened in Lièpvre, but research will be quickly abandoned. The Holy Spirit Mine will produce its first vein November 4, 1583 . Operated until 1593 it will produce a total of just under 129 kg Silver, but the vein will run out fairly quickly. However, thanks to the discovery of new veins in the Sainte-Anne mine in the mountains called “Finckaustreich” the delivery of minerals will continue. The production of the Herrschafft mine reached in peak in 1591 to gradually die XVII ^{It is} century. Around 1606 the Mines of the Herrschafftt in Musloch and from Saint-Esprit in Creusepré were abandoned. Around 1627, all the mining activity in the Val de Lièpvre was suspended due to the disorders generated by territorial conflicts and the exhaustion of metal reserves.

During the Thirty Years War, the work was abandoned. A resumption of exploitation after the Ryswick Treaty around 1697 does not manage to take off the mining activity due to modest yields. The works stopped in 1715. During the First World War, a gold deposit was also reported in the Châtenois-Lièpvre region. The presence of gold in this region had been suggested in 1913, by the newspaper Deutsche Goldschmied-Zeitung which indicated that large-scale excavations were going to be made on the site. The claims of Deutsche Goldschmied Zeitung aroused great curiosity and lively interest in the Lièpvre region. But no operations were undertaken. Some residents of Lièpvre and Châtenois, claiming to be well informed, claimed that the Germans who then occupied Alsace, foreseeing the loss of war and Alsace, abandoned the exploitation of the gold terrains. This deposit, according to the indications, was at the exit of the village of Lièpvre and the entrance to the land belonging to the city of Châtenois, at the limit of the departments of Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin, on the right bank of the Liepvette ^{[ 35 ]} .

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From 1668 the Duke of Lorraine, Charles IV authorized the holding of the markets and the lièpvre fairs. As Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines is growing, Lièpvre lost its importance. The town had for a certain time a few hundred drapery trades, but the inhabitants probably preferring to return to the earth abandoned this industry to devote itself exclusively to the culture of the earth. Lièpvre was thus gradually reduced to the village state and the beginning of the XIX ^{It is} century The population of Lièpvre did not exceed 1400 souls.

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Around 1816, Mr. Risler, industrialist in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines bought the building from the old horses, located at the bottom of the village, and transformed it into 1818 into a weaving of calicots, and thus founded the first establishment industrialist in Lièpvre. This building was occupied from 1816 to 1818 during the invasion by a company of Austrian hunters which then served as a barracks. In 1827, he demolished the old building and replaced it with a more modern building. At the same time, he added a weaving of white canvases and made painted cotton fabrics there and in 1836 he established a mechanical weaving there. This building was sold when the industrialist died in 1844 and this establishment was bought by Mr. Dietsch, industrialist in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines who was already the owner of a house vis-à-vis the factory and that The inhabitants of Lièpvre knew under the name of the castle. This house had been built in 1739 by Mr. Brulon de Sélestat who came to live in during the summer. Lièpvre still has another industrial establishment on the road to Rombach-le-Franc founded by MM Joly and Osmont de Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines which has long made complex cotton fabrics.

In October 1778, Lièpvre underwent important floods. The liepvette comes out of her bed and takes everything in her path. Many people are victims of these floods. We also deplore the disappearance of a large part of the cattle. The damage is estimated at 100,000 pounds. In 1800 we were witnessing a real drought: not a single drop of rain fell for 109 days. In 1818 the rain fell for 99 days, which overflowed the rivers and caused new floods. In 1829-1830 the snow covered the valley for 60 days and we witness frosts that will last 86 days. But we are also witnessing scorching periods: in 1811, 1825, 1826, 1834 from June to August the thermometer did not drop over 29 ° on average. THE May 25, 1834 A gigantic fire reduced to ashes more than 24 houses in Lièpvre. THE February 24, 1844 A new flood due to the important snow fonts devastates the valley again. There are many victims in Lièpvre, including an entire family. THE January 6, 1861 and the January 6, 1872 The population of Lièpvre must again face the important floods due to the melting of snow. The bridges are literally carried away. The railroad between Lièpvre and the Vancelle is interrupted and traffic will only resume eight days later. The same scenario was repeated in February 1877 for three weeks when the valley underwent new floods and storms of rare violence. The bridges are again swept away by the floods. Other floods are to be deplored, in particular those of December 23, 1919 . The church of Lièpvre is invaded by the waters, which prevents midnight mass from taking place there. THE July 7, 1933 A landslide occurred in Votrembach due to the large thunderstorms followed by prints of impressive waters. Another landslide occurs in Musloch the January 15, 1936 due to floods. The national road 59 is cut and a four-meter ditch prevents all traffic between Lièpvre and Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines.

Around 1349 a terrible scourge fell throughout Europe: black plague. The region is not yet reached by this mysterious evil, but rumor spreads like a trail of powder throughout the valley. The new panic created among the population.
In Strasbourg, a city with barely 65 km de Lièpvre spreads the rumor that the Jews are behind the spread of this epidemic. They are accused of storing the wells and rivers. Several Alsatian villages close to the Valley share the “confessions” that some Jews would have made (under torture). Following these rumors, many Jews were dragged by the crowd and burned on huge pyres. In Strasbourg, it is estimated that more than 2,000 Jews were burned alive. Some escaped them by abjuring their faith as well as children. The property of the tortured were divided between bourgeois and the bishop of Strasbourg. The claims were destroyed and certain wages returned to their owners. Faced with these massacres, the emperor Charles IV threatened the authors of such acts with reprisals. But the annihilation of the Jewish population did not prevent the spread of the black plague epidemic. In 1350 she reached the Liepvrette valley.

At Lièpvre approximately half of the population is decimated by the disease, while in Rombach-le-Franc barely 10% of the population is reached. The rumor circulates in Rombach-le-Franc and in Lièpvre that it was Saint Rosalie who preserved the village of this terrible disease. This source called the Source Holy Rosalie which flows near the chapel installed by the monks of the Lièpvre priory is frequented by the inhabitants of the two villages whose therapeutic virtues are recognized to fight against the plague and cholera.

A new epidemic laid down the valley in 1531. The plague is so strong that the superintendent of the mines no longer dares to come for his office. But the plague returns at regular intervals because of the lack of hygiene and the proliferation of black rats vectors of this disease. In 1541, the plague ranged again in Lièpvre. In 1633, the “Swedes”, in addition to looting, also brought the plague. Rombach-le-Franc knows the plague and plunder but escapes fire. The village of Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines and its banal mill are burned ^{[ 36 ]} .

The current Lièpvre church which is on the road to Rombach-le-Franc was probably rebuilt around 1752. But there was a chapel at this location from the XIII ^{It is} A century under the invocation of Saint Alexandre, which was frequented by the inhabitants of Rombach-le-Franc, Lièpvre and La Vancelle for Sunday masses, marriages, burials. It was destroyed during the Thirty Years War ^{[ 37 ]} .

The elements of the parish church of Lièpvre were mounted with old remains from the priory of Lièpvre and the Saint-Alexandre church ^{[ 38 ]} . In the church, a tombstone, removed from the chapel in 1790, was placed as an altar table in the parish church of Lièpvre, but it was moved when in 1843 the altars of this church were changed. It contained the remains of the last lord of Eckerich who died in 1381. They were backed by the church wall, but these elements have since September 1998 were moved inside the church.

It also existed, in the sacristy of the parish church, the shrine containing the relics of Saint Alexandre. It was a small wooden -shaped wooden box, outerly decorated with sculptures. On both sides of the shrine we distinguished an opening garnished with glass where you could see the interior of the box. Through this opening, there was clearly a cushion covered with crimson silk and adorned with gold and silver braids on which rested the remains of the relics of the saint. This relic was still visible in the last century, but has apparently disappeared since.

One of the most curious objects contained in the chapel is the baptistery which was under the bell tower, and which has since been exposed inside the entrance to the church. It is in stone and has the shape of a chalice. The lower part forms a square which is decorated on its four sides of sculptures whose subjects appear from the apocalypse of Saint John. The stone which serves as a basis is also decorated with symbolic subjects.

The original organ of the Notre-Dame-de-l’Assumption parish church was produced in 1830 by the Strasbourg organ factor Théodore Sauer from a drawing by the Maestlé architect ^{[ 39 ]} .

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The large bell of the parish church of Lièpvre also comes from the monastery of Saint-Alexandre, and bears the date of 1542 ^{[ 40 ]} . This bell was melted by a Lorraine artist, Jean Lampeti from Deneuvre, near Baccarat. The Lamperti exercised the profession of founders there for many years; Their bells competed, in terms of quality and elegance, with those of the most famous factories and their renown far exceeded Lorraine. The presence of the Saint-Georges medallion, which distinguished them, is found on the Lièpvre bells ^{[ 41 ] , [ 42 ]} .

According to popular legend, the bell was hidden in a meadow near Lièpvre in a place formerly known as Schirel at the exit of Lièpvre, to the right of the Vancelle road during the Thirty War Years, as the Swedes approached which ravaged the valley in the years 1635 and 1636 and in particular the monastery. This vast field of stuffing and fields in front of the forest is between the path that leads to the vancelle and the one leading to the small wood. In this place were discovered with scrap, currency and size stones that may come from old buildings, perhaps an ancient dependence on the priory of Lièpvre. Many even claim that there was an old cemetery there ^{[ 43 ]} . The bell was unearthed a century later and mounted on the church bell tower.

The October 5, 1760 took place the blessing of two bells ordered from the Joseph and Nicolas Antoine brothers in Eurville. The largest weighs 1800 pounds and the smallest 1200 pounds. The first bell was baptized under the name of Saint Paul and for sponsors and godmothers Joseph Antoine Herrenberger Curé de Lièpvre, Paul Brulon, son of Antoine Brulon and Cécile de la Garde domiciled in Sélestat, Jean Dominique Simon singer at the church church From Saint-Pierre le Jeune to Strasbourg, Paula Catherine Brulon wife of Jean Tredos Centurion Royal, Mr. Cécile Brulon and Georges Mathias wife of Jacques Mathieu de Lièpvre. The second and the smallest received the name of Saint Anne and had as sponsors and Marraines Jean François Moyemont trustee in Lièpvre, Anne Lebrux wife of Alexandre Ruyer Provost, Marie Henry wife of Quirin Collin, Anne Catherine Henry wife of Joseph Aymé. Then follow the signatures of the priests present, the godparents and the two founders.

After two centuries the 1542 bell again ceased its office. THE 27 mars 1917 , day of confirmation of hare children, Rombach and the vancelle by M ^gr Zorn de Bulach, the newspapers announced that the bells would be requisitioned. THE April 7, 1917 , the mayor of Lièvre asked the curator to intervene in favor of the historic bell. However the May 22 She left Lièvre by the train. It’s the May 15, 1917 That she had been down from the bell tower to reach, on the station quay, the large hare bell as well as the two bells of Sainte Croix and Rombach-le-Franc. The historic bell returned only after two years of exile; In 1919, the day before the festival of Saint Urbain, she was back and on Thursday of the Corpier-Dieu she rang with the small bell at the top of the bell tower for the office.

There are two medallions there, one of which represents Saint Georges terraging the dragon and the other the Blessed Virgin with the Child Jesus accompanied by angels, playing various instruments. On the bell, it is written: O Holy Mary and holy Martir, pray for us; And below: Maria was named, in honor of God and the Virgin Mary was done . We read in the acts of Saint Cucufat that his relics were given to Charlemagne by the wali of Barcelona Sulayman ben Yaqzan ibn al-Arabi and that Father Fulrad having obtained them from the Emperor, deposited them in the church of the priory of Lièpvre that he had founded ^{[ 44 ]} . Is were they full relics? The Spaniards claim that the body of Saint Cucufa ^{[ 45 ]} is in Barcelona and that we only brought his leader to France. Part of these relics remained in Lièpvre until the beginning of XIX ^{It is} century. We venerated this relic with the sacristy which was contained in a small wooden shrine, adorned externally with sculptures. Another part of the relics was transported by Hilduin, abbot of Saint-Denis (835) in his abbey. Four capitals of columns from the old monastery are currently used in the church of Lièpvre de Pieddesstaux for the banners. The little chapel ^{[ forty six ]} . You see to the right of the church was built with the remains of the old priory. This is all that remains of the old monastery ^{[ 47 ]} .

In the church of Lièpvre one can also see twelve stained glass windows produced by the Ott brothers of Strasbourg, most of which were funded by parishioners of Lièpvre. To the right of the choir, there is a stained glass window representing Saint Georges terraging the dragon which was offered by Lettighoffer and C. Georges in 1911. Saint Georges is the boss of the primatial church of Nancy, which is why probably the mention ” Duchy of Lorraine “is there. To the right of the choir, a stained glass window represents Fulrad in a mite abbot, purple screed, butt in hand, holding a charter that recalls in Latin most of his will of 777 with the legend “do mea cuncta deo hic” (I give God all My property) at the foot of the stained glass, we discover a medallion with a stylized image of the Lièpvre priory. This stained glass was produced in 1911 by the OTT brothers in Strasbourg.

In the church choir you can also see a crucifix of the XVIII ^{It is} century. Similarly, the Stations of the Cross composed of 14 paintings painted in oil on canvas is the work of an anonymous artist of the XVIII ^{It is} century.

There is currently no trace of the precious objects that the old chapel contained and mainly the colored stained glass.

The February 6, 2004 frescoes of XIII ^{It is} century were discovered under the vaults of the choir of the old church during the renovation of the parish church. These frescoes could date from the 1200-1250 years which would not be surprising since we know that a chapel was at the very location of the bell tower which was preserved and the rest of which was demolished in 1752 to let Make way for the larger current church.

In the Vosges and in Lorraine we readily used the term Val, followed by the name of the main locality. Before VIII ^{It is} A century, the Val de Lièpvre should hardly have relations with the neighboring valleys because the side roads were missing. It was not until 1905 that a military road was established between Lièpvre and Villé passing by Rombach-le-Franc, then the Col de Fouchy which rises to 606 meters.

Only a longitudinal road, whose route varied, linked Alsace and Lorraine to the Middle Ages. At XV ^{It is} century this road did not pass through Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, but by little Rombach to reach the other side of the Vosges towards Lusse. It was close to this road, in Rumbach, that Echery castle was stood on a strong abrupt rock that served as a lair to monitor back and forth in the valley. For a long time, this road always resulted in Lièpvre which was the most populous place and the administrative center of the Valley. The geographic location of Lièpvre allowed through this route to link the Duchy of Lorraine and the Plaine of Alsace. This route was therefore a fairly frequented crossing point for trade but also for foreign troops. This route probably already existed the time of the Romans for the transport of salt which passed through the two valleys of Villé or Lièpvre. This road was improved by Fulrad in 757 with the Pépin Le Bref agreement. Later, and from the XVI ^{It is} century this road was postponed to Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines by climbing the pass, but elsewhere that the current road built in 1761 ^{[ 48 ]} .

Among the antiques found in the immediate vicinity of Lièpvre, it is necessary to point out a belt in golden belt which was unearthed at 6 feet deep by a peasant from Rombach-le-Franc by plowing his field in June 1820. He sold this Belt to a goldsmith in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines who recognized that she was in gold of Ducats and a weight of five gold Louis. The latter sent him to Strasbourg and asked for the sum of five hundred francs. This precious object is today at the National Library in Paris. On the plate of this loop we see an ancient head around which the word is engraved Victorious And all over the four corners are chiselled with the flagships. Victorinus was a valiant general of the Roman armies, tyrant of Gaul in 265 of the Christian era, murdered in 268. This belt was probably lost during a fight which would have been fought by Roman troops in the Val de Lièpvre.

Another object of a less old date which has a relationship with the famous Lièpvre priory was found in September 1821 in a field near the road which went to Haut-Koenigsbourg. It is a bronze cross in the shape of a malta cross which was undoubtedly lost by a monk of the priory, as seems to indicate the ring which was used to suspend it and which is broken. On one of the faces of this cross is represented a bishop wearing a miter with the sword in hand pursuing horsemen who flee in disorder before him; above are engraved the words Crux Sandi Udalrici . The other side represents a monk with a book by hand and above we read the words S.P. Blessed. These inscriptions as well as the fact of weapons that we see on this cross relate perfectly to the life of Saint Ulrich bishop of Augsburg who after having administered his bishopric for many years and chased in 925 by the Hungarians who besieged Augsburg Remove at the end of his life in a Benedictine convent.

Another medal was found in the first days of September 1845 near Lièpvre. It was in round bronze and the size of a five -franc piece. On the one hand there is a prayer monk and on the other this same monk worn by two angels. We do not know what time this medal dates ^{[ 49 ]} .

The town hall building since the revolution [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

This building already in office at the time of the revolution has experienced many transformations since 1789. Before this date, it was occupied by the municipal pastre and served as a point of fall for the notables of the village which met there from 1790, with The “bourgeois” of the town, to write and sign a 28 -page request for the new National Assembly in Paris.

In 1782, the two new fire pumps bought from the master founder Kress in Ribeauvillé were already stored in the pumps hall, at the back of the building. These pumps are placed on small four -wheeled lemonière carts. On the largest of the pumps, an engraving of the Holy Family and Saint Nicolas is represented is painted on the smallest.

In the fall of 1792, urgent repairs were carried out in the common house: repair of an apartment for the guard, roofing and classroom. That same year, in September, the civil status joined the town hall and will now be held by the municipal body, a competence previously exercised by the church and the parish priest Louis Guérand. The municipality is therefore entrusted with attributions which hitherto belonged to the clergy.

Work was undertaken in 1813 upstairs: renovation of the great room which is used for Christian education and the installation of a small accommodation for the teaching sister. In 1824, it was possible to access the vestibule on the ground floor of the town hall by two external doors, a door on the main street and an east side door. The ground floor consists of a guard, a cellar, a dungeon, a kitchen and two bedrooms. At the rear, the deposit of fire pumps with a stable and latrines. Upstairs, always the great room, the registry and the archives. That same year, an important work program was launched, namely: installation of sandstone slabs on the vestibule, paving of the kitchen, refurbished staircase, repaired frame and completely redesigned coverage, hallier of pompres completely redone, coated and laundering of Ceiling, masonry, carpentry, locksmith and painting work.

In April 1793, this building was the headquarters of the National Guard which has just been created in 2 companies of 77 men. Later, in 1831, it included a first company of 120 men, a second of 140 men and 106 reservists. The town hall will also be the witness and the place, the February 18, 1798 , of the feast of the sovereignty of the people celebrated by all the inhabitants with solemnity. THE May 26, 1834 , the hall of the pumps adjoining the back of the town hall is the prey of the flames with 24 houses in the neighborhood which will be completely destroyed. The National Guard had difficulty mastering this gigantic fire, the emergency equipment having burned. In March 1835, it was decided in an emergency the restoration of the hallier of the burned pumps, with the aspect that we know today, namely the ground floor with the large vaulted door on the east side, a small Curved door and 2 signs on the north side (currently the mayor’s office) and the floor with its five windows. A rejoicing ball was given in 1848 to the town hall on the occasion of the celebration of the centuries -old birthday of the presentation of Alsace to France. In 1850, for public hygiene and health measures, it was decided to pave all the flowing ditches around the common house where the market is held. In the fall of 1877, under the longest mayor in operation, Jean-Baptiste Collin (28 years), a restoration of the town hall was undertaken with the construction, on the east side, of a hall for covered market with its paving.

At the end of 1926, this covered market hall was dismantled to allow the expansion work of the town hall. Above a new hall, in the same location, the new premises of the town hall secretariat and the savings bank and, in the attic, the rooms of the appearance. This major program of approved work on July 27, 1926 provides for the demolition, the maintenance, the extension of the frame, the frizzy, the carpentry, the plastering and the locksmith. A public bathroom is provided on the ground floor, on the right, before the new staircase and above the fire pump presentation, the music room which is accessible by an overhanging external passage. The configuration of this new building will be maintained in its large part until April 30, 2005 Before the new complete restructuring that we know today.

Some renovation work will be carried out in 1966, including the total repair of the Salle des Sénces and in 1979, work on the ground floor following the transfer of the premises of technical services (old guard) to the new workshop place of the old station, as well as the change in the cover and the frizzy of the external walls in 1983. The town hall, during these centuries, will be the gathering point of all patriotic events, various receptions and large inaugurations. THE June 17, 1940 , in full debacle, Colonel Victor Bouchon of 242 ^{It is} Infantry regiment will install its command post at the town hall in order to accommodate part of its regiment which will try to constitute a “lock” at the entrance to the valley.

The town hall will also witness two major official visits: that of Raymond Poincaré, President of the Republic accompanied by his successor Alexandre Millerand, commissioner-general in Alsace-Lorraine August 20, 1919 , in the aftermath of the first world conflict, and that of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, President of the Republic 28 mars 1976 . The inauguration of the new town hall building took place under the chairmanship of mayor Claude Ruff Sunday December 3, 2006 And the new premises have been operational since Thursday December 7 of that same year.

The town has been decorated, the February 12, 1949 , from the 1939-1945 war cross ^{[ 50 ]} .

List of mayors [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Old regime [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The Archives of Meurthe & Moselle (= AMM) retain a certain number of titles where the former mayors of Lièpvre are mentioned. The date placed with regard to each name is that of the character inscribed in a document and further on the coast of the document where it is mentioned:

• BERNERIUS (Knight) Mayor of Lièpvre, cited in 1138
• Jean de Larue – 1441 – (Archives of Meurthe & Moselle G 393)
• Jean Martin, Châtelain – 1469- (AMM G.397)
• Jean Dohan – 1473 (Amm G.394)
• FLOWER HAUP – 1519 (AMM B.955, n ^O 4)
• Guillaume Gérard – 1534 – (AMM B.952. n ^O 44)
• Antoine Liègois – 1538 – (AMM B.9540)
• Bastien Ferry – appointed in 1541 (AMM B.952, n ^O 45. B.9540)
• Jean Mangin – 1571 – (Amm B.9546)
• Jean Demange Hans – 1586 – (AMM B.954, n ^O 44)
• Hans Fels – 1600 – (AMM 954, n ^O forty six)
• Jean Laurent – 1619, 1630 – (AMM G.400)
• Daniel Maurice – named the November 20, 1633 (AMM B.109, fol.177)
• Pierre Fournier, superintendent of the Val de Lièpvre – named the December 5, 1633 (AMM B.109, fol.178)

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Political trends [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Results of the latest presidential elections ( 2 ^{It is}  tour) [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

2002 : Registered: 1282 – abst. : 24.57% – Jacques Chirac: 669 votes (73.92%) – Jean -Marie Le Pen: 236 votes (26.08%)

2007 : Registered: 1313 – abst. : 19.95% – Nicolas Sarkozy: 565 votes (57.19%) – Ségolène Royal: 423 votes (42.81%)

2012 : Registered: 1344 – abst. : 19.49% – Nicolas Sarkozy: 558 votes (56.19%) – François Hollande: 435 votes (43.81%)

(Source: Ministry of the Interior).

Local finances [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

This subsection presents the situation of municipal finances of Lièpvre ^{[ Note 3 ]} .

For the 2013 financial year, the administrative account of the municipal budget of Lièpvre is 4,215,000 € € in expense and 2,709,000 € € in recipes ^{[ A2 1 ]} :

In 2013, the operating section ^{[ Note 4 ]} is divided into 1,662,000 € € charges (936 € € per capita) for 1,787,000 € € products (1,006 € € per capita), a balance of 125,000 € € (70 € € per inhabitant) ^{[ A2 1 ] , [ A2 2 ]} :

• The main operating expense center is that of external purchases and charges ^{[ Note 5 ]} For 446,000 € € (27%), or 251 € € per capita, ratio 34% higher than the average value for municipalities in the same stratum (188 € € per inhabitant). Starting from 2009 and until 2013, this ratio fluctuates and has a minimum of 243 € € per capita in 2012 and a maximum of 301 € € per capita in 2011;
• most of the revenues consists of local taxes ^{[ Note 6 ]} for a value of 479,000 € € (27%), or 270 € € per capita, ratio close to the average value of the stratum. Over the past 5 years, this ratio fluctuates and has a minimum of 257 € € per capita in 2011 and a maximum of 270 € € per capita in 2013.

The tax rates below are voted by the municipality of Lièpvre ^{[ A2 3 ]} . They varied as follows compared to 2012 ^{[ A2 3 ]} :

The investment section ^{[ Note 7 ]} is divided into jobs and resources. For 2013, jobs include in order of importance ^{[ A2 4 ]} :

• Equipment expenses ^{[ Note 8 ]} For 2,547,000 € € (100%), or 1,434 € € per capita, ratio 331% higher than the average value for municipalities in the same stratum (333 € € per inhabitant). Over the 2009 – 2013 period, this ratio fluctuates and has a minimum of 629 € € per capita in 2009 and a maximum of 1,434 € € per capita in 2013;
• No loan refund ^{[ Note 9 ]} .

Lièpvre investment resources are mainly distributed in ^{[ A2 4 ]} :

• VAT compensation fund for a sum of 91,000 € € (10%), or 51 € € per capita, ratio 38% higher than the average value for municipalities of the same stratum (37 € € per inhabitant). For the period from 2009 to 2013, this ratio fluctuates and has a minimum of 49 € € per capita in 2010 and a maximum of 95 € € per capita in 2011;
• grants received for a total value of 34,000 € € (4%), or 19 € € per capita, ratio 77% lower than the average value for municipalities of the same stratum (81 € € per inhabitant).

Lièpvre debt to December 31, 2013 can be valued from three criteria: the outstanding debt ^{[ Note 10 ]} , the annuity of the debt ^{[ Note 11 ]} and its deleveraging capacity ^{[ Note 12 ]} :

• No outstanding for debt. Over the past 5 years, this ratio is constant and close to 0 € € per inhabitant ^{[ A2 5 ]} ;
• No annuity for debt. For the period from 2009 to 2013, this ratio is constant and close to 0 € € per inhabitant ^{[ A2 5 ]} ;
• self -financing capacity (CAF) for a total value of 531,000 € € , or 299 € € per capita, a 92% higher ratio to the average value for municipalities in the same stratum (156 € € per inhabitant). Over the past 5 years, this ratio fluctuates and has a minimum of 299 € € per capita in 2013 and a maximum of 438 € € per capita in 2011 ^{[ A2 6 ]} . The deleveraging capacity is less than a year in 2013. Over a period of 14 years , this ratio is constant and weak (less than 4 years)

Twinning [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Saint-Sylvestre-sur-Lot (Lot-et-Garonne) since 1992.

The signing of the twinning oath between the two friendly villages took place in Lièpvre the May 24, 1992 and in Saint-Sylvestre-sur-Lot the August 30, 1992 . The signatories are René Lalbat, mayor of Saint-Sylvestre-sur-Lot and president of the twinning committee of this town as well as Georges Coudert, mayor of Lièpvre and Michel Velcin, first president of the Lièpvre twinning committee. It should be remembered that a deep esteem reign between the two provinces since the contacts made in April 1990 on the initiative of Doctor Guy Naudo, vice-president of the Haut-Rhin department and honorary mayor of Lièpvre and Martine Laiguese née Laurent, Then municipal councilor of Lièpvre and from Villeneuve-sur-Lot. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1940 exodus, the General Council plans to promote the twinning between the municipalities of Haut-Rhin and those of Lot-et-Garonne where many Alsatians were refugees. Alain Weiss has been chairman of the twinning committee since the first ^is July 1996 . Every two years, official exchanges take place, thus making it possible to forge strong links between these two municipalities. Since 1998, there has been a street in Saint-Sylvestre-sur-Lot in Lièpvre and since 2004 a rue de Lièpvre in Saint-Sylvestre-sur-Lot.

Lièpvre is slowly moving towards the fateful threshold of “city” which is from 2,000 inhabitants. 1,776 people were identified on the territory including 20 inhabitants counted apart. The current municipal population is therefore 1,756 inhabitants. Since 1999, Lièpvre has won 124 people, or 7.6% additional inhabitants ^{[ 77 ]} .

The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses made in the municipality since 1793. From 2006, the legal populations of the municipalities are published annually by INSEE. The census is now based on an annual information collection, successively concerning all the municipal territories during a period of five years. For municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants, a census survey relating to the entire population is carried out every five years, the legal populations of the intermediate years being estimated by interpolation or extrapolation ^{[ 78 ]} . For the municipality, the first exhaustive census falling within the framework of the new system was carried out in 2005 ^{[ 79 ]} .

In 2020, the town had 1,664 inhabitants ^{[ Note 13 ]} , decreased by 4.2%compared to 2014 (Haut-Rhin: +1.01%, France excluding Mayotte: +1.9%).

Age structure [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

At 8 mars 1999 , Lièpvre had 1,632 inhabitants (802 men and 830 women), a density of 130 inhabitants per km ² . The population is constantly increasing. Between 1999 and 2005, the town won 101 inhabitants and since 1975, 213 inhabitants. With the economic crisis of the 1960s, many often young residents left the town to get work in the plain. The trend now seems to be reversed with the arrival of city dwellers from major metropolises who aspire to find calm and a certain better living. Currently people over the age of 60 still represent the largest percentage of the Lièpvre population. In second position, those under 20 represent 24.9% of the population against 25.3% in the department. A relatively low number have work in the town, especially at the Schmidt kitchens and the industrial area of ​​the Abbess. Another part of the population goes to the other municipalities of the department, notably in Sélestat, Colmar, Strasbourg or Saint-Dié.

Men / women distribution (in 2009):

Men: 49.85% (national average: 48.6%);
Women: 50.14% (national average: 51.4%).

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Old fountain [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Located on the place of the same name along the rue Clemenceau, stands a well formed by two massive pillars, assembled by a sort of crosspiece bearing the date of 1550 (obviously engraved after). No particular character. This fountain apparently fed one of the oldest district of Lièpvre in water. Its original location is not exactly known. However, according to an old drawing by J. Stumpf from the middle of XIX ^{It is} A century, La Fontaine was located in front of the town hall.

Chapel/ossuary [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Next to the Assumption Church of Lièpvre, in the cemetery ^{[ 82 ]} , is a Romanesque chapel ^{[ 83 ]} from the end of XI ^{It is} century but transformed into XVII ^{It is} century in ossuary ^{[ 84 ]} With twin windows, columns and semicircular port. It was once known as the Chapel of the Charnier. Historians reminds us that it was built towards the end of XI ^{It is} century. At XVII ^{It is} century it was repaired and modified. The warheads of its two doors come from the Benedictine cloister. In this ossuary, we religiously deposited the skulls and the tibias of the unearthed. In this cemetery, the deceased of Lièpvre, Rombach-le-Franc and La Vancelle were buried. The excavations were therefore quite frequent hence the need to have an ossuary ^{[ 85 ]} . Formerly, at XIX ^{It is} century A procession was organized, to the puller. Later the mass grave became a chapel of the agony of the divine Master and over time the small chapel was abandoned and no longer served as the cult of the dead. In 1922, the municipal council decided to restore the small chapel ^{[ eighty six ]} . It was dressed externally with a plastering giving the monument a clearer and more pleasant appearance to the view. Subsequently, generous donors made it possible to renovate the interior walls and the paving to make a commemorative chapel. It was to remind future generations the memory of the great wars and the paternal recognition of God, which, had in a visible manner protected the commune of Lièpvre which was so often threatened. Two marble plates fix this memory. The chapel keeps its old cachet of the time. The commemorative and restored chapel was blessed the October 17, 1922 . This chapel was classified as a historic monument the 22 mars 1934 (Ministerial Decision: MH1934/03/22).

The funeral slab of the Eckerich [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

It comes from the old chapel of the priory of Lièpvre where the tomb of the lords of Echery was. The slab was then transferred in 1790 outside the parish church built in 1756. It was moved in 1843 when you changed altar and placed outside, against the church wall, Then in 1862 deposited in the village cemetery. Exposed to bad weather, the inscriptions which adorned the funeral slab gradually faded and became almost illegible. The grave contained the remains of the last lord of Echerich died in 1381.The funeral slab has been exposed since September 1998 exhibited inside the church of Notre-Dame de l’Assumption. Eroded registration with time written in German: ” Here the ligent of Eckeric and Ruwent in God’s Friden “=” Here are buried those of Echery and rest in the peace of God “(For a more complete biography of the Eckerich see Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines)

The baptistery [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The baptistery which is currently located inside the parish church consists of two ancient novel style capitals superimposed one on the other with ancient sculptures rich in figures. The basin they support is hexagonal in more recent date and without decor. An attentive little glance lets us see on the foot of the trades of dragons and fish; A reversed human head affected by a child, below the fight of a human being with a dragon, the Sagittarius as he sees himself in the representations of the zodiac, ornaments, etc. The two stones are made of red sandstone of the Vosges and belong to XI ^{It is} century or later at XII ^{It is} century. This baptistery seems to belong to the early ages of the Christian ornament.

Priory cross [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

This sandstone cross of the Vosges of XIV ^{It is} century was found during the expansion work of the “Schmidt Cuisine” factory which is today on the old location of the Saint-Alexandre priory. This cross found during the work was given to the parish of Lièpvre by the managers of the company. This cross is two sides and was first placed outside the church. In order not to undergo the outrages of time, it was placed inside the church behind the porch.

Musloch Chapel [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

This chapel is placed under the invocation of Notre-Dame du Sacré Coeur ^{[ eighty seven ]} And placed in front of the old school. It even has a cellar and was built on the site of an old house destroyed by a fire in 1903. It would have even served as a hostel during the revolution. The chapel was inaugurated on Monday of Pentecost in 1905 by Legay priest ^{[ 88 ]} .

Old terminals of the Saint-Georges de Nancy chapter [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

There are still at a place called Vaurière, between Rombach-le-Franc and Lièpvre, near the stream, four terminals dated 1680 hammered with a abbey butt and the S.G. letter (= Saint Georges). Terminal n ^O 31 is at the Kast to the path that goes up to Chalmont. These terminals which were undoubtedly more numerous at the time, demarcated the land which belonged to the priory of Lièpvre and since 1502 in the chapter of the collegiate church of Saint-Georges de Nancy. These terminals were installed around 1680. Between Lièpvre and Châtenois, in The limit of the Bas-Rhin department was the terminal n ^O 68 representing on its western part the abbey butt of Saint-Georges, on the north side the lion of Sélestat and on the south-east side the chestnut of Châtenois. This terminal is located near the stream from the village of the Vancelle forming the limit between the Departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin and the quarries of stone and sand. This Pierre-Borne which had been reported by Victor Kuentzmann in 1911 seems to no longer exist. It indicated the year 1797. By the revolution, in 1789, the emblems of the lords or other emperors who had been hammered on these stones were damaged.

The frescoes of XIII ^{It is} century under the vault of the church bell tower [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The February 6, 2004 were uncovered almost by chance, during the repair work of the Church of Notre-Dame de l’Assomption, frescoes that could date from the XIII ^{It is} century. It is during the stripping of the ceiling, that the workers discover under a layer of plaster part of the frescoes representing the evangelists Saint Marc, Saint Mathieu, Saint John and Saint Luke as it was seen regularly in the Middle Ages. There is a part of a lion under the plaster and it also seems to be a bull. For the rest nothing very precise because the contours were strongly damaged during the collection of the vault during the requisitions of the bells. These paintings are found under the vault of the old chapel at the entrance of the porch of the current church. These frescoes were renovated, but unfortunately were seriously damaged in 1917 during the requisition of the church bells by the Germans. There is therefore only part of these old frescoes. Sunday April 2, 2006 , the bells of the Notre-Dame de l’Assomption church sounded on all volley to announce the high mass during which the entrance to the church was to be inaugurated, formerly Roman choir of the building, restored after Twenty years of work which made it possible to uncover the vestiges of the Romanesque church: vaulting of the choir, diaphragm and frescoes. Originally, the choir and the altar of the celebration were turned towards the Levant as the tradition wanted and it was following successive enlargement that they were moved to the opposite. It is therefore to revive a past of 250 years that it was decided to restore temporarily but with solemnity its old destination to what is now the entrance to the church. Father Bernard Schutz, parish priest of Lièpvre and Rombach-le-Franc, Father Marcel Ehrhardt who was parish priest of Lièpvre for 14 years and the canons Aloyse Kieffer and Joseph Burel celebrated the office. This celebration was unique, the last time we celebrated mass like it was almost 260 years ago.

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The Saint-Alexandre fountain was discovered entirely by chance in 1987 south of the village at a place called Raincorne. They are children of Lièpvre ^{[ 89 ]} By having fun building a small dam that made this unexpected discovery. They uncovered an ancient well which dates from the High Middle Ages, perhaps even from the time of Father Fulrad. This fountain fueled a tank which was located within the very enclosure of the priory. We find the name of the source of Saint-Alexandre in the ancient titles of the Middle Ages whose water was deemed to cure eye diseases. In the Middle Ages, pilgrims came from the plain of Alsace and the Vosges to collect a few sips of this precious and miraculous water. This old Saint-Alexandre fountain was built by the monks of the priory of Lièpvre who used its water thanks to a 600-meter-worked driving worked in the wood using a large twist and whose pipes were pierced From sides connected to hand -forged scrap metal. The source of this fountain never dried up. Two oak doors closed the entrance to the sandstone water basin with a capacity of 1 600 liters to preserve it from dead leaves ^{[ 90 ]} . Around 1908, Mr. Victor KUENTZMANN, a former Lièpvre teacher, said that the basin had been transferred to Bois l’Abbesse, but it will return to the village of Lièpvre in 1990. This basin was then moved 20 meters to the North in June 1990 To prevent it from being buried by the deviation work on the national road 59. The fountain bore the name of Alexander in memory of the relics of Saint-Alexandre Pape and Martyr, which Father Fulrad had brought back from Rome in 763 as a gift from Pope Paul I ^is (757-767), brother of Pope Etienne II.

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After the Revolution, the ruins of the priory have long served as a career for the inhabitants of Lièpvre and Rombach-le-Franc ^{[ 91 ]} . It is therefore not surprising to find in the village of Lièpvre, within the walls of homes, stones from the former priory of Lièpvre. Some of its stones are still apparent or drowned in the walls of residential houses. The census of all these old stones has not yet been done. We can observe some old stones in the following places:

• House near the town hall: lintel located behind a house
• Amount of the entrance to a courtyard located 64, rue Clemenceau
• Wintender house, 74 rue Clemenceau: stones located at the back of this house

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Lapidar inscriptions with a crude character is found in Lièpvre recalling the corporate emblem of the inhabitants or the date of inauguration of their homes and the initials of the names of the owners. Most of these inscriptions are engraved above the doors lintels, often clumsily incised. Other registrations have been repainted by restaurateurs. Apart from the archaeological interest of this ancient tradition, we find the graphic aspect of the Arabic figure which in XV ^{It is} century appeared in writing: the number 2 was a long z, the four up to the 8th of the 8, while the seven and especially the five passed through incredible linear hesitations. In the Val de Lièpvre we often find inscriptions above the doors lintels, either engraved or carved. There are practically no more inscriptions from the medieval era, because with the different destruction of the Middle Ages, the town of Lièpvre several times destroyed, unfortunately did not keep old vestiges of this time. Most inscriptions above the door lintels date from XVIII ^{It is} century and XIX ^{It is} century with the reconstructions of homes after the Thirty Years War. We often find above the doors the monogram of Christ represented by the letters IHS, surmounted by a cross and sometimes the Cross of Lorraine. The cross is engraved to implore divine protection. We also find the heart, the tulip, the rosette with six petals, the Svastika or the sunscreen and the pentagram or a five -pointed star.

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A few bourgeois of Lièpvre had several leaflets in the Middle Ages (around 1591) several fighters to tread the sheets which were located on the edge of the rivers, often downstream of the priory, on a land belonging to the canons of Strasbourg against a fee in silver or in kind. Rue du Hoimbach during sanitation works A stone from an old fingertaking was found. It was evacuated by the company responsible for sanitation, then recovered and reported in front of the Lièpvre school where it can be admired.

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On the road which leads from Lièpvre to Thannenkirch, before the Col du Schantzel, at a place called Sand ^{[ 92 ]} , was formerly a chapel dedicated to Father Fulrad. This chapel was undoubtedly damaged during the revolution and then abandoned. It was replaced after the First World War, in 1923 by a shelter built by the Vosges club. This shelter was dismantled at the start of the first decade of the sixties to build the road that goes from Lièpvre to Thannenkirch. This shelter used to serve the weavers who took the weaver trail to go to the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines valley in the many weaving workshops.

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Sixteen associations which organize at least once a year of meetings or entertainment in the village.

• Festival committee
• Vosges club Lièpvre and Rombach-le-Franc
• Fishing company
• Home Saint-Alexandre
• Sport Club
• Veterans
• Shooting company
• Lièpvre-Rombach-le-Franc Cavalcade Committee
• Chorale
• Blood donors
• Factory advice
• Sport Culture and Leisure
• Genealogical and heraldry association of the Val de Lièpvre
• Head of firefighters section
• Peasant art

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Lièpvre has a team of handball, football, tennis and volleyball and fencing and organizes many sports meetings in each of these disciplines. For the practice of football, a stadium allows the followers of this disciple to train regularly to which some inhabitants of the neighboring village, Rombach-le-Franc come to join.

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• Lièpvre and Rombach-le-Franc cavalcade committee : this carnival event takes place every year the 3 ^{It is} Sunday after Tuesday-gras. This is currently one of the most important demonstrations in Lièpvre. The idea of ​​organizing a cavalcade came in 1960. The beginnings remain very shy, but the momentum is given. To perpetuate this important event, we call on good will. Some people gathered in 1966 to give a new impetus to this event which was beginning to collapse. However, it was not until 1980 that “friends of nature” again revived the Cavalcade very timidly. In 1984, with the implementation of a new structure, the organizers managed to align 45 tanks and musical groups. Since then, success has been there and the popularity of this event has never denied. Today, this is the most important Lièpvre event which always attracts more spectators in the Valley and even the Plaine d’Alsace. Since 1987, the year of the creation of this new association, the Committee of Organizers of the Cavalcade has widened to Rombach-le-Franc and the two villages are now working hand in hand to make this event more attractive. The Lièpvre-Rombach-le-Franc Cavalcade Committee organizes each year, in early September, a flea market that allows it to raise part of the funds to organize this cavalcade and acquire instruments for its Guggamusik created in the fall of 1999.

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The school instruction in Lièpvre seems very old. Almost all Lorraine villages have schools from the beginning of XVIII ^{It is} century. The communities of the valley as well as the parishes did not lack resources, the population wanted to access knowledge ^{[ 93 ]} . The schools were then exclusively municipal establishments which gave rise to very few entries and operated in a very summary way. It cannot be said exactly on what date the primary education goes, for lack of documents. However, the existence of a schoolmaster is mentioned in 1706 while the village school was administered by the parish of Lièpvre. Furthermore, we see that in 1762 that there was in Lièpvre not only a schoolmaster, but also a sub-mail, which seems to indicate that there were many students. Each inhabitant had to pay an rye or money remuneration which was proportional to his income, and in addition each student had to pay a schooling set as follows: a penny three denarii for those who learn to read, two under three deniers for those who approach spelling, calculation and song. The sub-manger had to be able to also teach German, although Lièpvre was once part of the Duchy of Lorraine. The class must last from Saint-Martin ( 11 November ) at Saint-Georges ( April 23 ). However, students who wanted to continue their studies could do so without increasing the price. Generally the schoolmaster was also required to ring the bells of the church, to sing to Sunday offices and to go up the clock. He received an additional compensation for these services. From 1750 a summary education was done in the large house belonging to that time to Mr. Humbert, near the church. Following the separation of sexes following the arrival of nuns, a school building intended for girls was built in 1823 in the rue de l’Eglise. In 1864 a larger school was located in the village as well as Musloch who welcomed around forty students. The Musloch annex has a hangar. The Musloch school was closed in 1950 due to the decrease in the number of students in the hamlet.

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The municipality of Lièpvre which falls under the Strasbourg Academy has only a mixed primary school located on the road to Rombach-le-Franc. The courses given range from the elementary course during the average course. Since the start of the school year September 2006 , Lièpvre no longer exempts from monolingual teaching, the bilingual classes being provided in Rombach-le-Franc which welcomes the students of the neighboring village. From the 6 ^{It is} , the students are directed to the college in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines or the high school in Sélestat. Other students take courses in private school institutes in Ribeauvillé. To allow children to go to different places, a school collection is organized every morning with buses in each village in the Valley.

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Book without author name:

• The days of the four and female twenty February 1844 in Leberthale, in Schlettstadt, with F. Helbig, Büchbruder – Strasbourg, near Schmidt and Bruder and Brother and Mariakitch, with GERGARD, BUCHhanler, 30 pages (Parle de l’inondation à lièpvre en 1844)
• The Messenger of the Vosges of August 23, 1910 (concerning the black days of the 23 and August 25, 1870 to Liepvre)

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