Ingolsheim

Ingolsheim Íngelse
Street in Ingolsheim Street in Ingolsheim
Coat of arms of Ingolsheim Coat of arms
Ingolsheim
Location within Alsace region Ingolsheim
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton	Wissembourg
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Jeannot Nussbaum
Area1	4.46 km2 (1.72 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	294
• Density	66/km2 (170/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	67222 / 67250
Elevation	146–205 m (479–673 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Ingolsheim (German: Inglesheim) is a commune in the north of the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine in north-eastern France.

The commune is part of the North-Vosges Natural park.

Geography

Ingolsheim is a small village with an economy based on agriculture. During the second half of the twentieth century French agriculture became very much more mechanized than hitherto, and many villagers work in the surrounding towns.

The village is positioned between Soultz-sous-Forêts and Wissembourg. Adjacent communes are Cleebourg, Hunspach, Riedseltz and Seebach.

History

The origins of Ingolsheim go back more than a thousand years. It appears as "Ingoldeshaha" in an imperial record of Otto II, from the year 967. The name mutated through various versions before becoming "Ingolsheim".

The reformation reached the village in 1558, and the parish was served by an ecumenical church until the construction of a Catholic church in 1900.

The Second World War was rendered the more shocking for the villagers by the proximity of the Maginot line, less than a kilometre away, and in particular the nearby Schoenenbourg fortifications. The village was one of many Alsatian communities located near the frontier to be evacuated to Haute-Vienne, in this case to the village of Bessines-sur-Gartempe.

See also

• Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

• INSEE commune file