The Quatzenheim Municipality belongs to the Community of Municipalities Ackerland at Truchtersheim-Kochersberg at Bouxwiller Canton and Arrondissement of Saverne. It is headquartered in the City of Quatzenheim, 22 Main Street (Phone: March 88 69 02 75 - Email: quatz.mairie@orange.fr)
The Municipality of Quatzenheim is located in the heart of Kochersberg, the former granary of the Strasbourg region. The land is fertile and farms are still relatively numerous. The reliefs are wavy, typical of the region.
Quatzenheim is located twenty kilometers from the city of Strasbourg to which it is connected by a road which turns into highway in the suburbs approach. It lies at the intersection of five roads leading to neighboring villages Hurtigheim, Furdenheim, Fessenheim-the-bottom-Dossenheim Kochersberg and Wiwersheim.
The town is also served by two bus lines that connect to Strasbourg.
The majority of the assets goes to the city of Strasbourg. A minority remains on the county, which has no major employment areas.
The topography of the ancient village is also typical of the villages-heaps of the region (Hüfedorf) and includes the former firm U-shaped around the Lutheran Church along two main axes: the Lord Street and Main Street. The evolution of the village was built mainly along the Roman road - old road from Strasbourg to Saverne - then the road Furdenheim.
Some housing estates were added in 1980 and 1990. Since 2000, we also observe two trends that seem to be confirmed: small collective construction and rehabilitation of large farm building used for residential purposes. Nevertheless, the expansion of built-up areas is gradually despite the strong real estate pressure due to the proximity of the city of Strasbourg.
The town's origins date back to the Neolithic period (4000 BC). A necropolis has been discovered in 1938, it has been studied by researchers from CNRS. The discovery in the early twentieth century, skeletons and Neolithic tombs and in 1957 Merovingian tombs confirm, as in many villages Kochersberg and Alsace, only very long, it felt good in environment close to Quatzenheim. It is true that the Souffel and fertile land have contributed to a sedentary populations.
The name of Quatzenheim comes from the Germanic tribe Chaten who established themselves in 742 and baptized the village Chattenheim.
The twelfth to the fourteenth century, various lords took possession: Impertus in 1127, Cuno in 1147, Reinfried in 1170, and in 1280 Bolso Katarina Von Quatzenheim in 1322. In the fourteenth century there Mullenheim edify the castle that was burned and completely destroyed after the battle Entzheim in 1674. This castle was located behind the present church was the chapel. In the sixteenth century, after Landsberg, then Ratsamhausen, nobles Oberkirch (Baden) bought the village and were the owners until the revolution. From the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, successive wars, the Peasants' War in the war of 30 years, profoundly shape the face of the region.
From the eighteenth century, Quatzenheim thrives on the new road through the Kochersberg to join the market Brumath and develops in a context of rural architecture, strong religious diversity among Protestant and Jewish communities.
In 1801, the City had 285 inhabitants, 820 inhabitants in 2009. Today, the people of Quatzenheim work mainly in industrial activities and services of Strasbourg and its region. However, the landscape and habitat always reflect the farming village.
The life of the Jewish community has deeply marked the village of Quatzenheim. Until 1988, a proposed grocery products kosher Jewish denominations of believers, whether or not originating in Quatzenheim. In addition to the synagogue of the eighteenth century, renovated in the nineteenth and closed in 1940, the Jewish cemetery located outside the village to Wiwersheim always shows the importance of this community in local life. While other communities were established in the villages of Kochersberg, Quatzenheim is the only one with a cemetery with about a hundred graves, a village that was the same seat rabbinate from 1880 to 1910. Without enough of men, the Jewish community of this village died out in the 80s, but not without lasting mark on the history of this small rural split between two denominations, Lutheran and Jewish. Note that the sacred elements from the synagogue (a curtain of sacred wardrobe and a Torah scroll) are kept at the Folk Art Museum of Marmoutier where they are visible as well as many elements from different Jewish communities in Alsace.
