Huttenheim

Huttenheim
Hìttene

Coat of arms

Huttenheim

Location within Grand Est region

Huttenheim

Coordinates: 48°21′35″N 7°34′47″E / 48.3597°N 7.5797°ECoordinates: 48°21′35″N 7°34′47″E / 48.3597°N 7.5797°E

Country

Government

• Mayor (2014–2020)

Jean-Jacques Breitel

Area¹

12.55 km² (4.85 sq mi)

Population (2006)²

2,509

• Density

200/km² (520/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

INSEE/Postal code

67216 /67230

Elevation

156–162 m (512–531 ft)
(avg. 160 m or 520 ft)

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

²Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Huttenheim (German: Hüttenheim) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

The village can trace its recorded history back to the seventh century.

Positioned to the south-west of Benfeld, not far from the Roman era road known as the Road of the Heathens ("route des païens" / "S'Heidestressel"), the village was included in the property of the feudal lordship of Eticho, and was bequeathed in 667 to the . With the arrival of missionary friars from the north, dedicated, for the next three centuries, to the Christianisation of the region, the village walls were transformed and a new mentality seized the entire region. The villagers were early adopters of the Christian religion. Hardworking and combative, people mostly lived by fishing and by hunting: fish and game were abundant in the region. They lived in huts on the banks of the River Ill: the surrounding fields would have been criss-crossed by meandering streams.

Over the centuries, the name of the village changed as the local dialects evolved. Around 728 it was Hittenheim which had become Hudenheim by 770 and Hivatinquhaim in 798. In 884 it is written as Hindingheim, in 959 Hitingheim and in 1039 Hutenheim. The name Hittenheim was used in 1174 and Huttenheim ("Hettne" in the local version of Alsatian) first appears in 1560.

Huttenheim is located on the eastern side of central Alsace, some thirty kilometres (19 miles) south of Strasbourg and forty kilometres (25 miles) north-north-east of Colmar. Selestat and Obernai are each some fifteen kilometres (9 miles) distant while to the east the Rhinau ferry crossing into Germany is some ten kilometres (6 miles) away.

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