Asswiller | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Asswiller 67.svg |
Arrondissement: | Saverne |
Canton: | Ingwiller |
Insee: | 67013 |
Postal Code: | 67320 |
Mayor: | Norbert Stammler[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CC Alsace Bossue |
Coordinates: | 48.8819°N 7.2208°W |
Elevation Min M: | 256 |
Elevation Max M: | 337 |
Area Km2: | 6.02 |
Asswiller (in French pronounced as /asvilɛʁ/; German: Aßweiler) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France.
The commune has been awarded one flower by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of cities and villages in Bloom.[2]
Asswiller is in the Northern Vosges Regional Natural Park some 27 km south-east of Sarralbe and 38 km south-west of Bitche. Access to the commune is by the D9 road from Durstel in the north-west passing through the heart of the commune and the village and continuing south-east to Petersbach. The D309 road goes south-west from the village to Drulingen. There is a large forest in the west with strips of forest along the borders with the remainder of the commune farmland.[3]
The forms the south-western boundary of the commune as it flows west to eventually join the Sarre west of Wolfskirchen. The Ottwillergraben forms the eastern border of the commune as it flows north to join the Eichel at Tieffenbach.
In German the commune name is Aßweiler.
Asswiller was a small lordship dependent on the Counts of La Petite-Pierre. When the count palatine of Bavaria, Georg Johann I of Bavaria, took possession of the county, he granted Asswiller as a hereditary fief to the Dalheim family (1588), who were soon succeeded by the Steinkallenfels family: senior officials of the palatine counts. These Protestant lords introduced the Reformation and remained in Asswiller from the 16th century to 1819.[4] In 1789 Asswiller belonged to the Lord of Carbiston who had acquired it in 1771 by marriage with the heiress of the Steincallenfels family.
After the French Revolution Asswiller was attached to France in 1793 by decree of the National Convention which overrode the rights of princes holding possessions.
List of Successive Mayors[5]
From | To | Name | Party | Position | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2001 | 2008 | Jean Mathia | General Councillor | ||
2008 | 2026 | Norbert Stammler |
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Asswillerois or Asswilleroises in French.[6]
Many buildings and structures in Asswiller are registered as historical monuments:
Several religious buildings and structures are registered as historical monuments:
The Cemetery contains two items that are registered as historical objects:
The Lutheran Church contains two items that are registered as historical objects: