Waldersbach

The rectory was built by the pastor Oberlin.

• The Museum Jean-Frederic Oberlin. Not far from the Protestant church is the rectory built by Pastor Oberlin in 1787.
  In a space renovated in 2002 , his house now houses a museum on three levels, which exhibits the objects and collections that reflect her passion for teaching and eclecticism of his interests.

Personalities linked to the common

• Jean-Frederic Oberlin , pastor of the Ban-de-la-Roche , Waldersbach lived in for 59 years and died there in 1826. It is based in the small of cimetiree Fouday near the church. Its influence and presence of the museum in the village create a remembrance tourism in the region. While the pastor was buried in the cemetery Fouday , his wife, Madeleine Salome Oberlin, born Witter, who died at the age of 36 years after the birth of their ninth child, was buried in Waldersbach, as evidenced by a plaque affixed to a wall of the church.

Twinnings

Pairing with Woolstock.

Like seven other municipalities in the Ban de la Roche ( Bellefosse , Belmont , Fouday , Neuviller la Roche , Rothau , Solbach and Wildersbach ) Waldersbach is twinned since 15 July 1984 with Woolstock , a small town America of Iowa who welcomed the ^nineteenth century immigrants from the Ban de la Roche.

Notes

Internal Links

• Communes of Bas-Rhin
• Wildersbach , municipality of the same township
• Upper Bruche

External Links

• Waldersbach on the site of the National Geographic Institute
• Waldersbach on the site of INSEE
• Inventory of the Oberlin in the Muse de Waldersbach (made by Christine Heider, archivist of the Alsace Region, 67 p.)

Bibliography

• Leypold Denis Le Ban de la Roche at the time of lords and Rathsamhausen Veldenz (1489-1630), Librairie Oberlin, Strasbourg, 1989, 119 p.
• Jean Georges Stuber , History of the Parish Waldersbach, Annals of Ban de la Roche, 1774.
• "Waldersbach", in The Upper Valley Bruche Heritage of Alsace, General Inventory of monuments and art treasures of France, Editions Sayings Places, Lyon, 2005, p. 69-73 ( ISBN 2-914528-13-9 )

References

• Portal communes of France
• Portal Alsace