Kutzenhausen, Bas-Rhin

For the German municipality, see Kutzenhausen, Bavaria.

Kutzenhausen Kutzehüse
Commune
The Maison Rurale de l'Outre-Forêt, an interpretation centre, in Kutzenhausen
Coat of arms
Location of Kutzenhausen
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Coordinates: 48°56′02″N7°51′23″E / 48.9339°N 7.8564°E / 48.9339; 7.8564
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton	Reichshoffen
Intercommunality	Sauer-Pechelbronn Community of Communes
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pierrot Sitter [1]
Area 1	7.20 km2 (2.78 sq mi)
Population  (2022) [2]	1,924
• Density	270/km2 (690/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	67254 /67250
Elevation	147–215 m (482–705 ft)
Website	www.kutzenhausen.fr/index.php/
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Kutzenhausen is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. ^[3]

Kutzenhausen lies 15 kilometres (9 mi) to the south of Wissembourg, but still within the Parc naturel régional des Vosges du Nord .

This commune is located in the historic and cultural region of Alsace.

Geography

Location

The commune is 2.3 km from Soulz-sous-Forêts ^[4] , 2.6 from Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, 5.8 from Lobsann and 6.5 from Surbourg.

The locality is part of the Outre-Forêt ^[5] nature reserve.

Geology and relief

Commune member of the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park. ^[6]

Geological formations in the commune present at outcrop or subsurface level

Mountain: Grand Wintersberg.

Seismicity

The commune is located in a moderate seismicity zone. ^[7]

Hydrography

The commune is located in the Rhine catchment area within the Rhine-Meuse basin. It is drained by the Seltzbach stream, the Froeschwillerbach stream and the Sumpfgraben stream. ^[8]

The Seltzbach, which is 33 km long, rises in the commune of Gœrsdorf and flows into the Sauer at Seltz, after passing through 14 communes. ^[9]

River system in Kutzenhausen.

Climate

In 2010, the commune's climate was classified as that of the Montargnard margins, according to a study by the French National Centre for Scientific Research, based on a series of data covering the period 1971-2000. In 2020, Météo-France published a typology of climates in mainland France in which the commune is exposed to a semi-continental climate and is in a transition zone between the ‘Vosges’ and ‘Alsace’ climatic regions. ^[10]

For the period 1971-2000, the average annual temperature was 10.6°C, with an annual temperature range of 17.8°C. The average cumulative annual rainfall is 820 mm, with 10.6 days of precipitation in January and 10.2 days in July. For the period 1991-2020, the average annual temperature recorded at the nearest Météo-France weather station, ‘Preuschdorf’, in the commune of Preuschdorf, 4 km away as the crow flies ^[11] , is 11.3°C, and the average annual total rainfall is 834.2 mm. The maximum temperature recorded at this station is 39.8°C, reached on 4 July 2015; the minimum temperature is -19.9°C, reached on 8 January 1985. ^{[12] [13]}

The commune's climate parameters have been estimated for the middle of the century (2041-2070) according to different greenhouse gas emission scenarios based on the new DRIAS-2020 reference climate projections. ^[14] They can be consulted on a dedicated website published by Météo-France in November 2022. ^[15]

Communications and transport

Roads

Situated between Soultz-sous-Forêts and Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, it is crossed by the D 28 departmental road. ^[16]

• D 52 towards Soultz-sous-Forêts.
• D 28 towards Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, Dieffenbach-lès-Woerth.

Public transport

• Transport in Alsace.
• Fluo Grand Est.

SNCF

• Soultz-sous-Forêts station,
• Hoelschloch station,
• Hoffen station,
• Walbourg station,
• Hunspach station.

Neighbouring communes

• Lobsann (North)
• Soultz-sous-Forêts (East)
• Surbourg (South)
• Merkwiller-Pechelbronn (South West)
• Lampertsloch (North West)

Intercommunality

Commune member of the Sauer-Pechelbronn community of communes.

Town planning

Typology

As of 1 January 2024, Kutzenhausen is classified as a rural town, according to the new seven-level communal density grid defined by INSEE in 2022. ^[17] It is located outside an urban unit. The commune is also part of the Haguenau catchment area, of which it is an outlying commune. This area, which includes 34 communes, is categorised as having between 50,000 and less than 200,000 inhabitants. ^{[18] [19]}

Land use

The commune's land use, as revealed by the European biophysical land cover database Corine Land Cover (CLC), is characterised by the importance of agricultural land (67.7% in 2018), a proportion roughly equivalent to that of 1990 (68.5%). The detailed breakdown in 2018 is as follows: arable land (56.3%), forests (23.7%), urbanised areas (8.7%), grassland (6.3%), permanent crops (5%). ^[20] The evolution of land use in the commune and its infrastructure can be seen on the various cartographic representations of the area: the Cassini map (18th century), the staff map (1820-1866) and the IGN maps or aerial photos for the current period (1950 to the present). ^{[Map 1]}

Map of infrastructure and land use in the commune in 2018 (Corine Land Cover).

Commune covered by the Pechelbronn inter-municipal local planning scheme. ^[21]

Toponymy

From Goten hause, a possession of the nearby abbey of Wissembourg; another Kutzenhausen was located near Drusenheim and probably owes its name to the former abbey of Arnulfsau. In the past, the abbeys were also called Goten hause, an old form spelt Chuzichusi.

History

The municipality of Kutzenhausen originated from the former bailliage ^[22] and, at the beginning of the 19th century, included the towns of Niederkutzenhausen and Feldbach, now the village of Kutzenhausen, Oberkutzenhausen, Merkwiller and Hoelschloch. ^{[23] [24]} In 1888, these two districts formed the new commune of Merkwiller, and Kutzenhausen was transferred from the arrondissement of Wissembourg to the arrondissement of Haguenau-Wissembourg on 1 January 2015.

In France, the first oil wells (mainly oil sands) were sunk in Kutzenhausen. Oil production, together with a refinery, continued until the 1970s.

Heraldry

	Coat of arms	Quarterly: First quarter: A gold field with a black saltire Second quarter: A green field with a gold sheaf of wheat Third quarter: A green field with three silver bars Fourth quarter: A black field with a gold ploughshare positioned diagonally (bend sinister) with the point facing upward
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Politics and administration

List of mayors

Nº	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office; Electoral mandates		Time in office	Political Party
1		Frédéric Roessel (1868–1927)	1888	1895	7 years	Independent
			1888
2		Georges Wagner	1895	1906	11 years	Independent
			1895, 1901
3		Georges Strohl (1849–1918)	1906	1917	11 years	Independent
			1906, 1912
4		Georges Mall (1859–1939)	1917	1924	7 years	Independent
			1917
5		Georges Mall (1891–1965)	1924	1944	20 years	Independent
			1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940
6		Joseph Klein (1912–1976)	1945		Less than a year	Independent
			1945
7		Martin Heintz (1901–1983)	1946	14 March 1971	25 years	Independent
			1946, 1953, 1959, 1965
8		Georges Wagner (1920–2006)	14 March 1971	12 March 1989	17 years, 363 days	Independent
			1971, 1977, 1983
9		Edmond Fabacher (b. 1944)	12 March 1989	23 March 2014	25 years, 11 days	Independent
			1989, 1995, 2001, 2008
10		Pierrot Sitter (b. 1954)	23 March 2014	Ongoing	10 years, 303 days	Independent
			2014, 2020

Town hall-school in Kutzenhausen.

Budget and taxation 2022

In 2022, the commune's budget was made up as follows: ^[25]

• Total operating income: €596,000, i.e. €642 per inhabitant;
• Total operating expenses: €441,000, i.e. €475 per inhabitant;
• Total investment resources: €727,000, i.e. €783 per inhabitant;
• Total investment expenditure: €625,000, i.e. €672 per capita;
• Debt: €684,000, i.e. €736 per capita.

With the following tax rates:

• Council tax: 8.50%;
• Property tax on built-up properties: 25.67%;
• Property tax on non-built-up properties: 48.00%;
• Additional tax on non-built property: 0%;
• Business property tax: 0%.

Key figures Household income and poverty in 2020: median disposable income per consumption unit in 2020: €25,020. ^[26]

Economy

Business and commerce

Agriculture

• Growing cereals, pulses and oilseeds.
• Associated crop and livestock farming.

Tourism

• Traditional restaurants.
• Restaurants and accommodation in Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, Soultz-sous-Forêts.

Shops

• Shops and services in Soultz-sous-Forêts.

Population

Demographics ^[27]

Year	Population	Evolution
1793	997	N/A
1800	1,156	159
1806	1,310	154
1821	1,444	134
1831	1,559	115
1836	1,487	72
1841	1,370	117
1846	1,391	21
1851	1,297	94
1856	1,063	234
1861	1,040	23
1866	1,038	2
1871	1,050	12
1875	1,049	1
1880	1,013	36
1885	1,062	49
1890	692	370
1895	730	38
1900	722	8
1905	754	32
1910	752	2
1921	756	4
1926	828	72
1931	922	94
1936	965	33
1946	958	7
1954	823	135
1962	806	17
1968	785	21
1975	719	66
1982	713	6
1990	740	27
1999	783	43
2006	830	47
2007	837	7
2008	874	37
2009	909	35
2010	906	3
2011	902	4
2012	899	3
2013	904	5
2014	927	23
2015	923	4
2016	919	4
2017	915	4
2018	912	3
2019	913	1
2020	917	4
2021	921	4
2022	924	3

Education

Educational establishments :

• Primary school.
• Nursery school.

Health

Health professionals and establishments: ^[28]

• Doctors in Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, Surbourg, Soultz-sous-Forêts, Goersdorf, Durrenbach, Woerth;
• Pharmacies in Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, Soultz-sous-Forêts, Woerth, Lembach;
• Hospitals in Lobsann, Goersdorf, Wissembourg, Haguenau.

Worship

• Catholic worship, Les Prairies de la Zorn parish community ^[29] , diocese of Strasbourg.
• Protestant worship. ^[30]

Twin towns

• Kutzenhausen, Bavaria since 31 May 1987.

Places and monuments

Religious heritage

• Protestant church ^[31] , rue de l'église ^[32] , built between 1763 and 1765, used alternately by Protestants and Catholics until a Catholic church was built in 1905.
  • Great organ on gallery. ^[33]

• Catholic church ^[34] , rue des Acacias, built to plans by architect Bruno Steller ^[35] between 1903 and 1905. Consecrated in 1905 by the bishop-coadjutor Zorn von Bulach, the patron saint of the church is St George. ^{[36] [37]}
  • Organ on gallery. ^{[38] [39]}

• Chapel Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix. ^{[40] [41] [42]}
• The former synagogue ^{[43] [44]} . Destroyed in 1940 by the Hitlerjugend, the youth wing of the Nazi party, it was destroyed in 1957 because it was in danger of collapsing.
• War memorial ^[45] : conflicts commemorated: Franco-German war of 1914–1918 - 1939–1945 - AFN-Algeria (1954–1962).
• Calvary.

• 
  Protestant church (18th century)
• 
  Saint George catholic church
• 
  Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix chapel
• 
  The Maison rurale de l’Outre-Forêt, now an interpretation centre of heritage
• 
  Former bailiwick of the Sires de Fleckenstein, former presbytery (18th century)
• 
  Remains of a former fortified farmhouse
• 
  Ruins of a double-decker First Empire bench

Other heritage

• Mining remains, including a wooded slag heap. ^[46]
• The commune is home to a museum of folk arts and traditions, the Maison rurale de l'Outre-Forêt ^[47] , now a heritage interpretation centre. ^[48]
• Porch tower at no. 26 route de Soultz. ^[49]
• Bench known as the King of Rome bench. ^[50]
• Well known as the pendulum well. ^[51]

Personalities linked to the town

• Annie Boulanger, former headmistress of the Kutzenhausen school, member of the Ordre des Palmes académiques ^[52] , class of 1 January 2013.
• Edmond Fabacher, honorary mayor of Kutzenhausen, member of the Ordre des Palmes académiques, awarded on 1 January 2008. ^[53]
• Barbe Roth, born 5 June 1924 (age 100 years, 228 days), oldest-living person in Kutzenhausen since Louis Hofmann's death on 7 October 2019. ^{[54] [55]}

Oldest living people in the town

Rank	Name	Age	Birth date	Sex
1	Barbe Roth (née Weimer)	100 years, 228 days	5 June 1924 [54]	F
2	Marguerite Braeunig (née Hoeltzel)	99 years, 129 days	12 September 1925	F
3	Caroline Lang (née Durban)	96 years, 201 days	2 July 1928	F
4	Marlise Maurer (née Hey)	94 years, 52 days	28 November 1930	F
5	Georgette Gatty (née Ledig)	93 years, 264 days	30 April 1931	F
6	Jacqueline Fatt (née Gress)	92 years, 90 days	21 October 1932	F
7	Suzanne Stephan (née Erhart)	91 years, 153 days	19 August 1933	F
8	Marie Ratzel (née Zirnheld)	90 years, 125 days	16 September 1934	F

See also

• Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

Notes and References

Notes

1. Intermittent streams are shown as dotted lines.

1. The town hall and the school are in the same building.

Maps

1. IGN. "Évolution comparée de l'occupation des sols de la commune sur cartes anciennes". remonterletemps.ign.fr. Retrieved 17 July 2023..

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 16 December 2022.
2. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. INSEE commune file
4. Itinéraires
5. « Outre-Forêt », in Alsace, Gallimard, Paris, 2007, p. 213
6. Le Parc Naturel Régional des Vosges du Nord compte 111 communes dont 39 en Moselle, et 72 dans le Bas-Rhin dont Kutzenhausen
7. Fiche communale d’information risques et sols, aléas naturels, miniers ou technologiques, sismicité et pollution des sol
8. "Fiche communale de Kutzenhausen". le système d'information pour la gestion des eaux souterraines Rhin-Meuse. Retrieved 11 June 2024..
9. Sandre. "le Seltzbach".
10. "Zonages climatiques en France métropolitaine". pluiesextremes.meteo.fr. Retrieved 28 January 2024..
11. "Orthodromie entre Kutzenhausen et Preuschdorf". fr.distance.to. Retrieved 28 January 2024..
12. "Station Météo-France « Preuschdorf », sur la commune de Preuschdorf - fiche climatologique - période 1991-2020" (PDF). donneespubliques.meteofrance.fr. Retrieved 28 January 2024..
13. "Station Météo-France « Preuschdorf », sur la commune de Preuschdorf - fiche de métadonnées" (PDF). donneespubliques.meteofrance.fr. Retrieved 28 January 2024..
14. "Les nouvelles projections climatiques de référence DRIAS-2020". drias-climat.fr. Retrieved 28 January 2024..
15. "Climadiag Commune : diagnostiquez les enjeux climatiques de votre collectivité". meteofrance.com. November 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2024..
16. Itinéraires
17. "La grille communale de densité". le site de l'Insee . 28 May 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2024..
18. "Liste des communes composant l'aire d'attraction de Haguenau". le site de l'Insee . Retrieved 29 June 2024..
19. Marie-Pierre de Bellefon, Pascal Eusebio, Jocelyn Forest, Olivier Pégaz-Blanc et Raymond Warnod (Insee) (21 October 2020). "En France, neuf personnes sur dix vivent dans l'aire d'attraction d'une ville". le site de l'Insee . Retrieved 29 June 2024..
20. "CORINE Land Cover (CLC) - Répartition des superficies en 15 postes d'occupation des sols (métropole)". le site des données et études statistiques du ministère de la Transition écologique. Retrieved 20 May 2021..
21. PLUi
22. Bailliage de Kutzenhausen, 1345-1789. En 1789, à la Révolution française, le bailliage fut élevé au rang de commune
23. Historique de la commune
24. Base Mérimée : Présentation de la commune de Kutzenhausene , Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
25. Les comptes de la commune
26. Chiffres clés Évolution et structure de la population. Dossier complet
27. "Module:Données/Kutzenhausen/évolution population", Wikipédia (in French), 2024-12-30, retrieved 2025-01-10
28. Professionnels et établissements de santé
29. Communauté de paroisses Les Prairies de la Zorn
30. UEPAL Secteur Soultzerland (Hermerswiller, Hoelschloch, Hohwiller, Kutzenhausen, Lobsann, Merkwiller, Oberkutzenhausen, Reimerswiller, Retschwiller, Soultz-sous-Forêts, Surbourg)
31. Église luthérienne
32. Base Mérimée : Église, Temple , Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
33. Base Palissy : IM67005230 , Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Orgue de l'église paroissiale Saint-Georges
34. Église Saint-Georges
35. Quelques réalisation de l'architecte Steller Bruno
36. Saint Georges, martyr (✝ 303)
37. Base Mérimée : Église paroissiale Saint-Georges , Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
38. Base Palissy : IM67005218 , Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)orgue (grand orgue)
39. Kutzenhausen, église Saint Georges, Edmond-Alexandre Roetinger, 1926
40. La chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix à Oberkutzenhausen à Kutzenhausen
41. Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix (Oberkutzhausen)
42. Historique de la chapelle d'Oberkutzenhausen
43. Histoire des 16 synagogues dans le canton de Reichshoffen 8) La synagogue de Kutzenhausen]
44. Ancienne synagogue, La communauté juive de Niederkutzenhausen : voir aussi Patrimoine juif d'Alsace
45. Monument aux morts
46. Base Mérimée : Ensemble Industriel , Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
47. Maison Rurale de l'Outre-Forêt Centre d'interprétation du Patrimoine
48. La Maison Rurale de l’Outre-Forêt est un ancien corps de ferme, aujourd’hui centre d’interprétation du patrimoine
49. Base Mérimée : Tour porche au n°26 de la route de Soultz , Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
50. Parties subsistantes du banc-reposoir dit banc du Roi de Rome
51. Base Palissy : IM67005233 , Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)Puits dit puits à balancier
52. Liste des personnalités bas-rhinoises nommées ou promues dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques
53. "KUTZENHAUSEN / Le maire officier des Palmes académiques - Les DNA Archives". sitemap.dna.fr. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
54. "Kutzenhausen | Anniversaire. Barbe Roth, 100 ans". www.dna.fr (in French). 2024-06-10. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
55. "Kutzenhausen | Nécrologie. Louis Hofmann, le doyen de la commune, est décédé". www.dna.fr (in French). 2019-10-27. Retrieved 2025-01-10.

External links

• Parc naturel régional des Vosges du Nord site