Turckheim

"Thorencohaime " or " Thuringian's House " is quoted as of 742.

Roman finds were made : a statue of Mercury, coins, remains of walls, pipeworks on the sites known as " Gemür ", "Hausenfeld ", " Thalweg ". Merovingian burials were also discovered there.

The village belonged to the Munster Benedictines' abbey during the Middle Age.

In 1312, promoted to the status of city, Turckheim was fortified.

The city adhered in 1354 to the " Decapolis".

The significant prerogatives that the abbot of Munster kept to the city were at the origin of frequent conflicts with him.

The situation was all the more confused since half of Turckheim belonged to the seigniory of " Hohlandsberg ", in fact to the " Habsbourg ", then in the 15th century being given as security to the Count of " Lupfen ".

In 1465, he invades the city by surprise, at night, following a conflict relating to the belonging of the immigrants.

This conflict ended definitively only in 1485.

After 1672, the King of France stripped Turckheim of his autonomy.

In 1675, after the " Turenne's victory " over the Imperial troops, Turenne allowed his troops to plunder and to set fire to the city because its burgomaster had helped the Imperial troops.

In 1978 the church Sainte Anne was almost destroyed by a fire.

Nearby, the locality of " Trois-Epis ", with its church of pilgrimage, is on the three banns of Turckheim, Labaroche and Ammerschwihr.

The Christmas feast is quoted in 1597, that of Saint Jean in 1540.

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