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Population:
- 1789: 742
- 1851: 1,372
- 1905: 1,473
- 1936: 1,447
- 1990: 1,399
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 68130 Carspach
- Bibliography:
- Carspach: un village du Sundgau, by Roger Sollinger and Raymond Bach (Carspach: Caisse de crédit mutuel de Carspach, 1994)
- brief abstracts of a variety of Carspach notarial records (including estate inventories and marriage contracts) for the period 1649-1727 appear in BERGHA [Bulletin d'études et de recherches généalogiques en Haute Alsace] 56 (1991), p. 1095-1100, 57 (1991), p. 1107-1112
- Web resources:
Carspach information from the Centre Départemental d'Histoire des Familles, http://cdhf.telmat-net.fr/villages/F-68/altkirch/altkirch/carspach/page1/index.fr.vhtml
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German: Sennheim
Population:
- 1806: 1,854
- 1851: 3,997
- 1905: 5,214
- 1936: 6,588
- 1990: 10,313
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 82%
- Lutheran: 6%
- Calvinist: 1%
- Anabaptist: <1%
- Jewish: 8%
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 26 rue James Barbier, BP 153, 68700 Cernay
- Bibliography:
- Archives communales de la ville de Cernay (Haut-Rhin) antérieures à 1790: inventaire sommaire, by Léon Brièle (Colmar: Hoffmann, 1872)
- Cernay: son passé, son présent, by Joseph Dépierre (Cernay: A. Wohler, 1907)
- Regards sur l'histoire de Cernay, by Gabrielle Claerr-Stamm (Ingersheim: Editions S.A.E.P., 1983)
- brief abstracts of a variety of Cernay marriage contracts for the period 1625-1695 appear in BERGHA [Bulletin d'études et de recherches généalogiques en Haute Alsace] 34 (octobre 1986), p. 632-634
- a 1787 census of Cernay (which does not include nobles or Jewish families) appears in BERGHA [Bulletin d'études et de recherches généalogiques en Haute Alsace] 67 (1994), p. 1386-1406 and 68 (1994), p. 1437-1448
- Inventaires analytiques des registres notariaux de Cernay, 1716-1791, by André Ganter (Morschwiller-le-Bas: A. Ganter, 1988-1989); 11 volumes
- Web resources:
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German: Eichwald
Parts of the community of Bantzenheim
were added to Chalampé in 1966 and 1980.
Population:
- 1789: 220
- 1851: 340
- 1905: 357
- 1936: 348
- 1990: 1,011
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
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German: Zarmweiler
Population:
- 1790: 209
- 1851: 272
- 1906: 172
- 1936: 99
- 1990: 227
Religious composition in 1804:
- Catholic: 94%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist: <1%
- Anabaptist: 4%
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 3 rue de Froidefontaine, 90140 Charmois
- Bibliography:
The Bulletin of the Société Belfortaine d'Émulation publishes articles on the history of the Territoire de Belfort. Information on this journal can be obtained by writing to:
BP 773, 90020 Belfort Cedex
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Latin: Castinettum, Castinetum, Castiniacum, Castinacum
German: Kestenholz
Population:
- 1790: 3,000
- 1851: 3,717
- 1905: 2,306
- 1936: 2,315
- 1990: 3,020
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 99%
- Lutheran: <1%
- Calvinist: <1%
- Anabaptist: <1%
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 81 rue du Maréchal Foch, 67730 Châtenois
- Bibliography:
- Châtenois, au pied du Hahnenberg, by Hubert Brenner (Strasbourg: Coprur, 1998), ISBN 2842080270
- Un village, Châtenois, son histoire, by Pierre Walter (Barr: Éditions Ima montis, 1994), ISBN 2910283089
- Canton de Sélestat, by Marie-Philippe Scheurer, Brigitte Parent and Roger Lehni (Le Verger, 1994), ISBN 2908367491
- Web resources:
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German: Kestenholz
The community of Châtenois (variant: Châtenoy) was renamed Châtenois-les-Forges 14 June 1933.
Population:
- 1790: 723
- 1851: 1,004
- 1906: 1,815
- 1936: 2,160
- 1990: 2,517
Religious composition in 1804:
- Catholic: 98%
- Protestant: <1%
- Anabaptist: 1%
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 84 rue du Général de Gaulle, 90700 Châtenois-les-Forges
- Bibliography:
The Bulletin of the Société Belfortaine d'Émulation publishes articles on the history of the Territoire de Belfort. Information on this journal can be obtained by writing to:
BP 773, 90020 Belfort Cedex
- Web resources:
The parish records of Châtenois-les-Forges have been abstracted and made available on the internet by a group of amateur researchers who formed the Plateforme pour la lecture et l'informatisation des sources archivistiques:
http://lisa90.org/commun/CHT_hist.htm
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German: Tscha
Variant: La Chaux
Population:
- 1806: 524
- 1851: 779
- 1906: 791
- 1936: 605
- 1990: 869
Religious composition in 1804:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 1 rue Saint-Martin, 90330 Chaux
- Bibliography:
The Bulletin of the Société Belfortaine d'Émulation publishes articles on the history of the Territoire de Belfort. Information on this journal can be obtained by writing to:
BP 773, 90020 Belfort Cedex
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German: Klein Schaffnat
Variants: Chavannatte, Chavenatte
Population:
- 1790: 141
- 1851: 179
- 1906: 127
- 1936: 87
- 1990: 129
Religious composition in 1851:
- Catholic: 92%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist: 7%
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, rue de Suarce, 90100 Chavanatte
- Bibliography:
The Bulletin of the Société Belfortaine d'Émulation publishes articles on the history of the Territoire de Belfort. Information on this journal can be obtained by writing to:
BP 773, 90020 Belfort Cedex
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German: Gross-Schaffnat
Variants: Chavanne-le-Grand, Chavannes-les-Grandes, Chavannes-les-Granges, Chavanatte-les-Grands
Population:
- 1790: 350
- 1851: 484
- 1906: 348
- 1936: 255
- 1990: 305
Religious composition in 1804:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 8 rue de l'Église, 90100 Chavannes-les-Grands
- Bibliography:
The Bulletin of the Société Belfortaine d'Émulation publishes articles on the history of the Territoire de Belfort. Information on this journal can be obtained by writing to:
BP 773, 90020 Belfort Cedex
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German: Schaffnatt am Weiher
Population:
- 1790: 362
- 1851: 449
- 1905: 371
- 1936: 277
- 1990: 374
Religious composition in 1851:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 9 rue de Bellefontaine, 68210 Chavannes-sur-l'Étang
- Bibliography:
- Web resources:
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German: Geissenberg
The communities of Chèvremont and Fontenelle
were merged at the beginning of 1973 to form Chèvremont-Fontenelle, but
were separated at the end of 1977.
Population:
- 1790: 510
- 1851: 548
- 1906: 503
- 1936: 723
- 1990: 1,040
Religious composition in 1804:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 2 rue de l'Église, 90340 Chèvremont
- Bibliography:
The Bulletin of the Société Belfortaine d'Émulation publishes articles on the history of the Territoire de Belfort. Information on this journal can be obtained by writing to:
BP 773, 90020 Belfort Cedex
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Absorbed the community of Bremmelbach 31 Dec 1972.
German: Kleeburg
Population:
- 1792: 162 (Bremmelbach), 817 (Cleebourg)
- 1851: 221 (Bremmelbach), 828 (Cleebourg)
- 1905: 110 (Bremmelbach), 565 (Cleebourg)
- 1936: 128 (Bremmelbach), 613 (Cleebourg)
- 1990: 584
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 96% (Bremmelbach), 9% (Cleebourg)
- Lutheran: 2% (Bremmelbach), 5% (Cleebourg)
- Calvinist: 1% (Bremmelbach), 85% (Cleebourg)
- Anabaptist: <1% (Cleebourg)
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 63 rue Principale, 67160 Cleebourg
- Bibliography:
- Web resources:
Alsace, with over 1350 organs, has been characterized as the world capital of the organ. A site devoted to this topic, A la découverte de l'orgue - orgues d'Alsace, includes a description of the organ in Cleebourg.
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German: Klimbach
Population:
- 1792: 292
- 1851: 575
- 1905: 468
- 1936: 520
- 1990: 480
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 70%
- Lutheran: 29%
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
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Latin: Cholonpurgum
German: Kolmar
- Département: Haut-Rhin
- Arrondissement: Colmar
- Canton: the city of Colmar is divided between the cantons of Colmar-Nord and Colmar-Sud
Population:
- 1790: 13,214
- 1851: 21,348
- 1905: 41,791
- 1936: 49,448
- 1990: 63,498
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 67%
- Lutheran: 31%
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish: <1%
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 1 place de la Mairie, 68021 Colmar Cedex
- Bibliography:
- Colmar traditionnelle et actuelle, by Monique Mangold, preface by Gabriel Braeuner (Strasbourg: Coprur, 2000), ISBN 2842080629
- Colmar, by Albert-André Klumpp (Joué-lès-Tours: A. Sutton, 1998), ISBN 2842531043, in the series Mémoire en images
- Topographie du vieux Colmar, by Auguste Scherlen (Colmar: Association pour la retauration des édifices historiques de Colmar, 1996)
- Colmar au début du siècle: promenade illustrée dans les vieux quartiers, by Bernard Grandadam and Jean-Luc Eichenlaub (Mulhouse: Éditions du Rhin, 1988), ISBN 2863390503
- Les listes d'admission à la bourgeoisie de Colmar, 1361-1494 (Colmar: Archives de la ville de Colmar, 1958), vol. 1 of Publications des archives de la ville de Colmar; available on FHL film nos. 0873767 and 1071435
- Le livre des bourgeois de Colmar, 1512-1609 (Colmar: Archives de la ville de Colmar, 1961), vol. 2 of Publications des archives de la ville de Colmar; available on FHL film nos. 0874333 and 1071435
- Les Anabaptistes à Colmar, 1534-1535, by X. Mossmann (Colmar: Eugène Barth, 1869); available on FHL film no. 1069948
- Communities and conflict in early modern Colmar: 1575-1730, by Peter G. Wallace (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1995), ISBN 0391038222
- Membres du magistrat, conseillers et maîtres des corporations de Colmar, 1601-1700; Le livre des bourgeois de Colmar de 1610 à 1673, by Roland Wertz (Colmar: Archives municipales, 1967), vol. 4 of Publications des archives de la ville de Colmar; available on FHL film no. 1071435
- Das Jahrzeitregister von St. Martin in Colmar, 1391-1539, by Charles Wittmer (Colmar: Lechleiter, 1949); available on FHL film no. 1181984
- "Quelques Colmariens à Paris au XVIIe siècle", by Christian Wolff, in l'Annuaire de la Société historique et litéraire de Colmar 1958 (Colmar: La Société, 1958); available on FHL film no. 1071428
- a list of Jewish families in Colmar in 1806 appears in BERGHA [Bulletin d'études et de recherches généalogiques en Haute Alsace] 88 (1999), p. 2471
- Mémoire Colmarienne and the Annuaire, both published by the Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Colmar, include articles on the history of the city. For information write to:
Archives Municipales, 2 Place de la Mairie, 68000 Colmar
- Web resources:
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Until 1871, Colroy-la-Roche was part of the arrondissement of Saint-Dié in the Département des Vosges.
Population:
- 1790: 438
- 1851: 663
- 1905: 434
- 1936: 389
- 1990: 435
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, rue de Ban de la Roche, 67420 Colroy-la-Roche
- Bibliography:
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German: Koßweiler
Population:
- 1791: 250
- 1851: 511
- 1905: 439
- 1936: 330
- 1990: 430
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 5%
- Lutheran: 37%
- Calvinist: 57%
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 1 rue de l'Église, 67310 Cosswiller
- Bibliography:
Die ehemalige Herrschaft Romansweiler und Cossweiler im Kreis Molsheim, by D. Fischer (Saverne, 1877)
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German: Kurzel
Population:
- 1790: 160
- 1851: 268
- 1906: 174
- 1936: 116
- 1990: 106
Religious composition in 1804:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 6 rue d'Ajoie, 90100 Courcelles
- Bibliography:
The Bulletin of the Société Belfortaine d'Émulation publishes articles on the history of the Territoire de Belfort. Information on this journal can be obtained by writing to:
BP 773, 90020 Belfort Cedex
- Web resources:
The parish records of Courcelles have been abstracted and made available on the internet by a group of amateur researchers who formed the Plateforme pour la lecture et l'informatisation des sources archivistiques:
http://lisa90.org/commun/CRC_hist.htm
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German: Ottendorf
Population:
- 1789: 459
- 1851: 600
- 1905: 523
- 1936: 344
- 1990: 290
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
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German: Herbsdorf
Variant: Courdevan
Population:
- 1790: 250
- 1851: 354
- 1906: 244
- 1936: 195
- 1990: 353
Religious composition in 1804:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 6 rue Vendeline, 90100 Courtelevant
- Bibliography:
The Bulletin of the Société Belfortaine d'Émulation publishes articles on the history of the Territoire de Belfort. Information on this journal can be obtained by writing to:
BP 773, 90020 Belfort Cedex
- Web resources:
The parish records of Courtelevant have been abstracted and made available on the internet by a group of amateur researchers who formed the Plateforme pour la lecture et l'informatisation des sources archivistiques:
http://lisa90.org/commun/CRT_hist.htm
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German: Krastatt
Population:
- 1792: 272
- 1851: 327
- 1905: 271
- 1936: 222
- 1990: 177
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 37 rue Schlittweg, 67310 Crastatt
- Bibliography:
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Population:
- 1790: 140
- 1851: 151
- 1906: 534
- 1936: 1,164
- 1990: 1,877
Religious composition in 1804:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 2 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 90300 Cravanche
- Bibliography:
The Bulletin of the Société Belfortaine d'Émulation publishes articles on the history of the Territoire de Belfort. Information on this journal can be obtained by writing to:
BP 773, 90020 Belfort Cedex
- Web resources:
http://members.aol.com/cravanche/
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German: Kröttweiler
Variants: Craettwiller, Crettweiller, Krautweiler, Krottweiler
Population:
- 1792: 112
- 1851: 199
- 1905: 136
- 1936: 112
- 1990: 111
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 16%
- Lutheran: 81%
- Calvinist: 1%
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
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German: Krütz
Variant: La Croix
Population:
- 1790: 218
- 1851: 338
- 1906: 248
- 1936: 187
- 1990: 122
Religious composition in 1804:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, rue Principale, 90100 Croix
- Bibliography:
- Reconstitution des familles demeurant et originaires ou de passage à Lebetain, Saint-Dizier et Val-Saint-Dizier, by Philippe Robin (1984)
- The Bulletin of the Société Belfortaine d'Émulation publishes articles on the history of the Territoire de Belfort. Information on this journal can be obtained by writing to:
BP 773, 90020 Belfort Cedex
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German: Loeffeldorf
Variant: Cunillières
Population:
- 1790: 95
- 1851: 127
- 1906: 149
- 1936: 72
- 1990: 204
Religious composition in 1804:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 23 rue des Orgues, 90150 Cunelières
- Bibliography:
The Bulletin of the Société Belfortaine d'Émulation publishes articles on the history of the Territoire de Belfort. Information on this journal can be obtained by writing to:
BP 773, 90020 Belfort Cedex
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