The remains of Roman civilization and Merovingian tombs attest to the occupation site Krautergersheim. Thereafter it is the Alemanni that attach around the 6th and 7th century. Written documents refer to the possession of the village through various abbeys in 735 by Abbey Murbach in 778 by Abbey Hohenbourg (Mont Sainte-Odile) and in 1050 by Abbey Baumgarten. The village was devastated in 1587 during the War of Religion: he was burned by mercenaries crossing. During the Thirty Years War the troops of General Ernst von Mansfeld at the service of the Protestants pillaged and plundered the churches and abbeys, abusing the peasants and burning the village. In 1632 it was the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus 2nd, came to the rescue of German Protestants, who enter in Alsace, occupying all the fortified cities which Benfeld and sacked Krautergersheim. In 1634, two years after the death of their king, the Swedes left the Alsace, but their memory remains strongly rooted in the collective memory. From the 14th century, several families share the ancestral village. Berckheim family has a castle that will be purchased later by Frederic de Turckheim and his wife Lili Schoenemann - love of Goethe. In the early 16th century, the prefix is added to Kraut place name to distinguish it from its namesake. Located near Molsheim, the village reflects the seniority of the intensive cultivation of cabbage and sauerkraut making. In the fall of the Empire, Austrian units occupy Krautergersheim for three years.
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