Ingwiller (; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.INSEE commune file
The commune lies within the North-Vosges natural park.
History The first known mention of Ingwiller dates from the year 742 a.C. as Ingoniunilare,Krauss, Kunst und Altertum im Elsass, Straßburg 1876–92 785 as Ilununilare, 1175 as Ingichwilre and 1178 in a bulla of the Pope Alexander III as Ingevilre.Karl Letz, Geschichte der Stadt Ingweiler, Zabern 1896
On demand of Simon von Lichtenberg, the Emperor Louis IV the Bavarian imposed the village Ingveiler in the year 1345 to the town Ingveiler.Strobel and Engelmann: Vaterländische Geschichte des Elsaß, Straßburg 1840–49
With the end of the Franco-Prussian War in the year 1870/71 Alsace-Lorraine became part of the German Empire. 166 inhabitants of the town Ingwiller took the option of the Treaty of Frankfurt (1871) to remain French citizens and therefore had to leave Alsace-Lorraine towards Southern France.
Population
People Norbert Cohn (1904–1989): Jazz musician born in Ingwiller.
See also Communes of the Bas-Rhin department
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