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Formed 6 Nov 1972 by the union of the communities of Valdieu (German: Gottesthal) and Lutran (German: Luttern).
Population:
- 1790: 255 (Lutran), 64 (Valdieu)
- 1851: 259 (Lutran), 180 (Valdieu)
- 1905: 120 (Lutran), 136 (Valdieu)
- 1936: 137 (Lutran), 112 (Valdieu)
- 1990: 274
Religious composition in 1851:
- Catholic: 100% (both communities)
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
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Variants: Val d'Oye, Valdhoye, Valdoye
Population:
- 1790: 292
- 1851: 428
- 1906: 2,725
- 1936: 3,380
- 1990: 4,314
Religious composition in 1804:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 1 place André Larger, 90300 Valdoie
- 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 Valdoie 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/VLD_hist.htm
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Latin: Valva, Falaba, Faleba
German: Walf
Variant: Valf
Population:
- 1790: 1,063
- 1851: 1,524
- 1905: 1,141
- 1936: 1,003
- 1990: 1,234
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 92%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish: 7%
Miscellaneous:
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German: Wanzel
Prior to its establishment as an independent community in 1927, La Vancelle
was part of Neubois. An additional part of
Neubois was added to La Vancelle in 1958.
Population:
- 1851: 327 (approx.)
- 1905: 274
- 1936: 200
- 1990: 294
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 1 rue de l'Église, 67730 La Vancelle
- Bibliography:
Canton de Sélestat, by Marie-Philippe Scheurer, Brigitte Parent and Roger Lehni (Le Verger, 1994), ISBN 2908367491
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German: Waltersperg
Variant: Vautiermont
Population:
- 1790: 343
- 1851: 346
- 1906: 234
- 1936: 145
- 1990: 183
Religious composition in 1851:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 90150 Vauthiermont
- 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://www.vauthiermont.com/
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German: Hahnendorf
Variant: Valescot
Population:
- 1790: 163
- 1851: 166
- 1906: 131
- 1936: 101
- 1990: 136
Religious composition in 1804:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 90100 Vellescot
- 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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Population:
- 1792: 985
- 1851: 1,355
- 1905: 1,535
- 1936: 1,896
- 1990: 5,193
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 11%
- Lutheran: 88%
- Calvinist: <1%
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 12 rue du Centre, 67550 Vendenheim
- Bibliography:
- "Historique de la commune de Vendenheim", a typewritten compilation of short pieces by various authors, available from the Mairie.
- Franz Nathanael Horning, 1774-1839, Pfarrer in Roppenheim, Eckwersheim und Vendenheim: ein Pfarrbild im Rahmen der Zeit, by Wilhelm Horning (Straßburg: C.A. Vomhoff, 1888)
- Web resources:
Jean-Paul Kaminske has abstracted the church records for this community and integrated the information to create family cards. He is willing to provide photocopies. For more information visit his site: http://mapage.noos.fr/jpkam
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German: Wessenberg
Variants: Vesemont, Vessemont
Population:
- 1806: 432
- 1851: 671
- 1906: 571
- 1936: 415
- 1990: 644
Religious composition in 1851:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, Grande Rue, 90200 Vescemont
- 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: Württringen
Variant: Vetreigne
Population:
- 1790: 166
- 1851: 207
- 1906: 138
- 1936: 125
- 1990: 421
Religious composition in 1804:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 90300 Vétrigne
- 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: Wiswald
Variants: Veceloy, Wieswald
Population:
- 1790: 410
- 1851: 546
- 1906: 625
- 1936: 354
- 1990: 664
Religious composition in 1804:
- Catholic: 98%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist: 1%
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 90400 Vézelois
- 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: Alt-Pfirt
Variant: Altpfirt
Population:
- 1789: 472
- 1851: 621
- 1905: 476
- 1936: 416
- 1990: 525
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
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German: Alt-Thann
Variant: Altthann
Population:
- 1806: 515
- 1851: 1,481
- 1905: 2,318
- 1936: 2,086
- 1990: 2,864
Religious composition in 1851:
- Catholic: 95%
- Lutheran: 3%
- Calvinist: <1%
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish: <1%
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 76 rue Charles de Gaulle, 68800 Vieux-Thann
- Bibliography:
- Millénaire de Vieux Thann: 991-1991 (Vieux-Thann: Association du millénaire, 1991)
- Canton Thann (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1980), ISBN 2110805423, in the series Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France
- Thann et la vallée de Saint-Amarin, Bulletin de la Société industrielle de Mulhouse, no 790 (Mulhouse: Société industrielle de Mulhouse, 1983)
- Web resources:
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German: Neudorf
Population:
- 1789: 1,023
- 1851: 1,816
- 1905: 2,332
- 1936: 2,485
- 1990: 2,920
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 81 rue du Général de Gaulle, 68300 Village-Neuf
- Bibliography:
- Web resources:
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German: Weiler
Population:
- 1790: 148
- 1851: 211
- 1906: 150
- 1936: 77
- 1990: 96
Religious composition in 1851:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 90100 Villars-le-Sec
- 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: Vilerium, Wilare
German: Weiler
Variants: Weiller
Population:
- 1790: 973
- 1851: 1,126
- 1905: 993
- 1936: 1,208
- 1990: 1,549
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 100%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 21 place du Marché, 67220 Villé
- Bibliography:
- Le Val-de-Villé: un pays, des hommes, une histoire ([Villé]: Société d'histoire du Val-de-Villé & Communauté des communes du canton de Villé, 1995)
- Monographie des Fleckens Weiler, by Paul Egger (1950)
- Das Weilerthal in früheren Zeiten, by Joseph Kim (Sélestat, 1906)
- Le Val de Villé: recherches historiques, by Théodore Nartz (Strasbourg, 1887)
- Val de Villé, 1870-1939: souvenirs retrouvés, photographs and postcards collected and with commentary by students of the Collège de Villé (Villé: Collège de Villé, 1995-1997); in three volumes, the second and third with special titles: v. 2 Vie économique, v. 3 Vie religieuse, vie associative
- Web resources:
http://www.tourisme.fr/cgi-bin/aurweb/FNOTSI/rech.txt?ville=ville&aur_offset_rec=7
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German: Vöklinshofen
Variants: Voeglinshofen, Vögtlinshofen; Voegtlinshofen
Population:
- 1793: 376
- 1851: 543
- 1905: 617
- 1936: 433
- 1990: 446
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 89%
- Lutheran:
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist: 2%
- Jewish: 7%
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 6 place de la Mairie, 68420 Voegtlinshoffen
- Bibliography:
Canton de Wintzenheim, Haut-Rhin, by Marie-Philippe Scheurer, photographs by Claude Menninger (Strasbourg: Imag'in l'édition, 2000), ISBN 2913302149, no. 3 in the series Patrimoine d'Alsace, published as part of the Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France
- Web resources:
Voegtlinshoffen information from the Centre Départemental d'Histoire des Familles, http://cdhf.telmat-net.fr/villages/F-68/colmar/wintzenheim/voegtlinshoffen/page1/index.fr.vhtml
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German: Völlerdingen
Population:
- 1794: 404
- 1851: 583
- 1905: 588
- 1936: 510
- 1990: 428
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 20%
- Lutheran: 75%
- Calvinist: 2%
- Anabaptist: 1%
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
- City Hall:
Mairie, 88 rue de l'École, 67430 Voellerdingen
- Bibliography:
Voellerdingen: mémoires de mon village, du XVIIIe au XXe siècle, by Albert Bach, illustrated by Jean-Louis Schwartz (Strasbourg: Oberlin, 1997), ISBN 2853691705
- Web resources:
http://www.alsace-bossue.fr.st/vivoel.htm
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German: Vogelgrün
Population:
- 1790: 175
- 1851: 193
- 1905: 144
- 1936: 167
- 1990: 415
Religious composition in 1851:
- Catholic: 92%
- Lutheran: 4%
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist: 2%
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
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Population:
- 1790: 270
- 1851: 431
- 1905: 379
- 1936: 1,865
- 1990: 2,695
Religious composition in 1851:
- Catholic: 33%
- Lutheran: 66%
- Calvinist:
- Anabaptist:
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
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Variants: Volcksberg, Volsbourg, Volschbourg, Wolsburg
Lieux-dits, hameaux, écarts: Roesert
Population:
- 1792: 317
- 1851: 612
- 1905: 681
- 1936: 517
- 1990: 368
Religious composition in 1807:
- Catholic: 13%
- Lutheran: 76%
- Calvinist: 9%
- Anabaptist: <1%
- Jewish:
Miscellaneous:
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