Ostwald, Bas-Rhin
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Ostwald, Bas-Rhin

Communes of France, Bas-Rhin

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Ostwald (Alsatian: Oschwold) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. The ancient name of Ostwald, Wickersheim, is first attested on a map of the emperor Charles the Fat in 884. In the time of the emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, within the realm of the Holy Roman Empire, the Hohenstaufens built a castle by the Ill River. In 1285, the city was acquired by the Zorn family of Strasbourg and took the name of Illwickersheim, also sometimes called Sankt Ostwald after the name of a parish. The plague of 1348 and mercenary raids in 1365 and 1376 decimated the populati...