commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin (; Alsatian: ''Unterelsàss'', ' or '; traditional german: links=no, Niederrhein; en, Lower Rhine) is a department in Alsace which is a part of the Grand Est super-region of France. The name means 'Lower Rhine', referring to its low ...
department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in
Grand Est
Grand Est (; gsw-FR, Grossa Oschta; Moselle Franconian/ lb, Grouss Osten;
Rhine Franconian: ''Groß Oschte''; german: Großer Osten ; en, "Great East") is an administrative region in Northeastern France. It superseded three former administrat ...
in north-eastern
France
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There is evidence of the site having been occupied by a leading family during the
Gallo-Roman
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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
Sarrewerden (; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
The localities of ''Bischtroff-sur-Sarre'' and ''Zollingen'' are incorporated in the commune since 1972.
See also
* Communes of the Bas-Rhin departm ...
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
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prompted a general census of assets in the empire, Gœrlingen had disappeared from the Lixheim records.
In 1557 the County of
Nassau
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Sarrewerden
Sarrewerden (; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
The localities of ''Bischtroff-sur-Sarre'' and ''Zollingen'' are incorporated in the commune since 1972.
See also
* Communes of the Bas-Rhin departm ...
allocated seven deserted villages, of which Gœrlingen was one, to
Huguenot
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recusants from
Normandy
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,
Lorraine
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and elsewhere. The wars of the seventeenth century forced the citizens to flee towards the Palatinate or the
Bischwiller
Bischwiller (; ; gsw-FR, Bíschwiller) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France, just west of the river Moder.
Geography
The city is southeast of Haguenau, west-northwest from the German border and the ...
district. The church was destroyed in 1685. Subsequent repopulation was achieved through the arrival of Swiss refugees from
Calvinist
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extremism. In 1793 the county found itself annexed to the new
French Republic
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, but this time was spared the violent upheavals characteristic of the
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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.