Gœrlingen | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Gœrlingen  | |
  Gœrlingen  Gœrlingen | |
| Coordinates: 48°47′48″N 7°04′59″E / 48.7967°N 7.0831°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Bas-Rhin |
| Arrondissement | Saverne |
| Canton | Ingwiller |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Christophe Jung[1] |
| Area 1 | 3.77 km2 (1.46 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 199 |
| • Density | 53/km2 (140/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 67159 /67320 |
| Elevation | 252–332 m (827–1,089 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Gœrlingen (French pronunciation: [gœʁliŋ(ɡ)ən] ⓘ; German: Görlingen) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.[3]
History
There is evidence of the site having been occupied by a leading family during the Gallo-Roman period. By the thirteenth century Gœrlingen (albeit not spelled according to twenty-first century spelling) was numbered among the parishes under the archpriests of Bockenheim, the village being under the county of Sarrewerden to which the tithe was paid. In 1314 Gœrlingen was listed among the assets of the Abbey of Lixheim, but by 1542, when fears of a further Turkish attack on Vienna prompted a general census of assets in the empire, Gœrlingen had disappeared from the Lixheim records.
In 1557 the County of Nassau-Sarrewerden allocated seven deserted villages, of which Gœrlingen was one, to Huguenot recusants from Normandy, Lorraine and elsewhere. The wars of the seventeenth century forced the citizens to flee towards the Palatinate or the Bischwiller district. The church was destroyed in 1685. Subsequent repopulation was achieved through the arrival of Swiss refugees from Calvinist extremism. In 1793 the county found itself annexed to the new French Republic, but this time was spared the violent upheavals characteristic of the revolutionary period in other parts of France. The nineteenth century was relatively tranquil for Gœrlingen, though the commune shared in full the sacrifice of young lives in support of the wars of 1871, 1914 and 1939, during which period Gœrlingen would find itself tossed backwards and forwards between France and Germany.
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ INSEE commune file
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