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Kesseldorf or Kesseldorf City | |
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 The town hall and school in Kesseldorf | |
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  Kesseldorf or Kesseldorf City  Kesseldorf or Kesseldorf City | |
| Coordinates:48°52′36″N8°04′06″E / 48.8767°N 8.0683°E /48.8767; 8.0683 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Bas-Rhin |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg |
| Canton | Wissembourg |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Christophe Klein[1] |
Area 1 | 7.26 km2 (2.80 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 450 |
| • Density | 62/km2 (160/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 67235 /67930 |
| Elevation | 112–134 m (367–440 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Kesseldorf is acommune in theBas-Rhindepartment inGrand Est in north-easternFrance.[3]
Kesseldorf is located close toSeltz, some ten kilometres to the south of theGerman frontier crossing atLauterbourg and a couple of kilometres to the west of theRhine frontier. The village has its own stop on the little railway connectingLauterbourg withStrasbourg, and is also bordered by theA35 autoroute, the main north–south highway inAlsace.
The inhabitants are known as Kesseldorfois.
The village already gets a mention in the twelfth century, at that time under the name of Kesselbach. During his time in the region during 1162-63 the emperorFrederick Barbarossa placed the assets of the village under the Monastery at Koenigsbruck: this is confirmed in surviving records dated 1226. In 1310 the village turns up scheduled as part of the property of theAbbey of Saints Peter and Paul atSeltz. Soon after that the village, along with Seltz itself, came under the control of theCounts Palatine.
Little is heard of Kesseldorf/Kesselbach in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The determination of theFrench state to extend its eastern frontier to theRiver Rhine imposed a succession of destructive wars on Alsace leading to widespread depopulation, and it is possible that the village was abandoned in this period. From 1714, however, it seems that various artisans, makers ofbrooms,clogs andpottery goods settled the land that once had been Kesselbach, while the surrounding fields were farmed inrotation. By now the village had acquired its modern name of Kesseldorf: it has been suggested that the name may refer to the manufacture ofcauldrons in the village, Kessel being theGerman word for a cauldron.
29 June 1718 was the date of the first baptism recorded in the village, 14 June 1718 having been the date of the first recorded marriage. Sometimes under the control of the Abbey at Seltz, and sometimes owned by the successor to the Counts Palatine, Kesseldorf acquired its independence only with theFrench Revolution. But it already had its own school in 1732. Another chapel was built around 1778: the current church was built in 1844 and enlarged in 1952. The mairie and the school are housed in a single building that dates from1890.
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