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Hoffen Hoffe | |
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 The town hall in Hoffen | |
.svg) Coat of arms | |
 Location of Hoffen | |
  Hoffen  Hoffen | |
| Coordinates:48°55′50″N7°56′34″E / 48.9306°N 7.9428°E /48.9306; 7.9428 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Bas-Rhin |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg |
| Canton | Wissembourg |
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| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Didier Braun[1] |
Area 1 | 9.45 km2 (3.65 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 1,141 |
| • Density | 121/km2 (313/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 67206 /67250 |
| Elevation | 132–192 m (433–630 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Hoffen (French pronunciation:[ɔfən];Alsatian:Hoffe) is acommune in theBas-Rhindepartment inGrand Est in north-easternFrance.[3]
The village is within easy walking distance of departmental road RD 263 which linksWissembourg andHaguenau as well as the local railway line following the same route.
The village first appears in surviving records in 1052 as Hoffen. Hof is aGermanic word denoting a farm, a homestead or a settlement.
The village coat of arms comes from the Trautwein family who founded Hof: the family died out in 1664. The story of Hof has been a turbulent one. In the fourteenth century there were two settlements: Hoven comprised a dozen farms and Buren just four houses. These were the property of "St Peter the Younger" inStrasbourg. However, in 1450 the villages were surrendered to the lords ofHohenbourg andFleckenstein. Then from the end of the fifteenth century possession of these settlements passed into the hands of theCounts of Zweibrücken. During the seventeenth century Hoffen became attached to thebailiwick ofCleebourg. TheThirty Years War was devastating for many villages in Alsace, and in 1633 the hamlet of Buren disappeared following the passing ofimperial catholic troops. There were further destructive wars for much of the eighteenth century, but1748 probably marked the end of the most deadly of them all for Alsace. Many villages were left depopulated and were subsequently resettled by migrants fromSwitzerland, higher up the riverRhine or from other parts ofFrance which emerged from the war in possession ofmost of the major towns and cities in Alsace, and controlled the whole province by the time ofLouis XIV's death in 1715.
In September 1939, the population of Hoffen was evacuated toHaute Vienne as the government reluctantly planned for anotherterritorial struggle withGermany.
In 1974 the former communes of Leiterswiller and Hermerswiller merged into the commune of Hoffen.[4]
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