Kutzenhausen, Bas-Rhin

Location

The commune is 2.3 km from Soulz-sous-Forêts, 2.6 from Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, 5.8 from Lobsann and 6.5 from Surbourg.

The locality is part of the Outre-Forêt nature reserve.^[4]

Geology and relief

Commune member of the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park.^[5]

Geological formations in the commune present at outcrop or subsurface level.^[6]

High point: Grand Wintersberg.

Seismicity

The commune is located in a moderate seismicity zone.^[7]

Hydrography

The commune is located in the Rhine catchment area within the Rhine-Meuse basin. It is drained by the Seltzbach stream, the Froeschwillerbach stream and the Sumpfgraben stream.^[8]

The Seltzbach, which is 33 km long, rises in the commune of Gœrsdorf and flows into the Sauer at Seltz, after passing through 14 communes.^[9]

Climate

In 2010, the commune's climate was classified as that of the Montargnard margins, according to a study by the French National Centre for Scientific Research, based on a series of data covering the period 1971–2000. In 2020, Météo-France published a typology of climates in mainland France in which the commune is exposed to a semi-continental climate and is in a transition zone between the ‘Vosges’ and ‘Alsace’ climatic regions.^[10]

For the period 1971–2000, the average annual temperature was 10.6°C, with an annual temperature range of 17.8°C. The average cumulative annual rainfall is 820 mm, with 10.6 days of precipitation in January and 10.2 days in July. For the period 1991–2020, the average annual temperature recorded at the nearest Météo-France weather station, in the commune of Preuschdorf, 4 km away, was 11.3°C, and the average annual total rainfall was 834.2 mm. The maximum temperature recorded at this station was 39.8°C, reached on 4 July 2015; the minimum temperature was -19.9°C, reached on 8 January 1985.^[11][12]

The commune's climate parameters have been estimated for the middle of the century (2041–2070) according to different greenhouse gas emission scenarios based on the new DRIAS-2020 reference climate projections.^[13] They can be consulted on a dedicated website published by Météo-France in November 2022.^[14]

Communications and transport

Intercommunality

Commune member of the Sauer-Pechelbronn community of communes.

Typology

As of 1 January 2024, Kutzenhausen is classified as a rural town, according to the new seven-level communal density grid defined by INSEE in 2022.^[15] It is located outside an urban unit. The commune is also part of the Haguenau catchment area, of which it is an outlying commune. This area, which includes 34 communes, is categorised as having between 50,000 and less than 200,000 inhabitants.^[16]

Land use

The commune's land use, as revealed by the European biophysical land cover database Corine Land Cover (CLC), is characterised by the importance of agricultural land (67.7% in 2018), a proportion roughly equivalent to that of 1990 (68.5%). The detailed breakdown in 2018 is as follows: arable land (56.3%), forests (23.7%), urbanised areas (8.7%), grassland (6.3%), permanent crops (5%).^[17] The evolution of land use in the commune and its infrastructure can be seen on the various cartographic representations of the area: the Cassini map (18th century), the staff map (1820–1866) and the IGN maps or aerial photos for the current period (1950 to the present).^[18]

Commune covered by the Pechelbronn inter-municipal local planning scheme.^[19]

Heraldry

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	Coat of arms	Quarterly: First quarter: A gold field with a black saltire Second quarter: A green field with a gold sheaf of wheat Third quarter: A green field with three silver bars Fourth quarter: A black field with a gold ploughshare positioned diagonally (bend sinister) with the point facing upward
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List of mayors

1888–present (current territory)

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Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Time in office	Political Party	Notes
		Start	End
	Frédéric Roessel (1825–1894)	1888	5 septembre 1894	6 years	Independent	Died in office
	Georges Wagner (1854–1923)	1894 or 1895	1906	11 years	Independent
	Georges Strohl [wd] (1849–1918)	1906	1917	11 years	Independent
	Georges Mall [wd] (1859–1939)	1917	1924	7 years	Independent
	Georges Mall [wd] (1891–1965)	1924	1944	20 years	Independent
	Joseph Klein [wd] (1912–1976)	1945	1945	Less than a year	Independent
	Martin Heintz [wd] (1901–1983)	1946	March 1971	25 years	Independent
	Georges Wagner [wd] (1920–2006)	March 1971	March 1989	18 years	Independent
	Edmond Fabacher [wd] (b. 1944)	March 1989	28 March 2014	25 years	Independent
	Pierrot Sitter [wd] (b. 1954)	28 March 2014	20 March 2026	11 years, 357 days	Independent
	Marc Florian [wd] (b. 1963)	20 March 2026	Present	139 days	Independent

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List of First Deputy Mayors since 1977

Budget and taxation 2022

In 2022, the commune's budget was made up as follows:^[23]

• Total operating income: €596,000, i.e. €642 per inhabitant;
• Total operating expenses: €441,000, i.e. €475 per inhabitant;
• Total investment resources: €727,000, i.e. €783 per inhabitant;
• Total investment expenditure: €625,000, i.e. €672 per capita;
• Debt: €684,000, i.e. €736 per capita.

With the following tax rates:

• Council tax: 8.50%;
• Property tax on built-up properties: 25.67%;
• Property tax on non-built-up properties: 48.00%;
• Additional tax on non-built property: 0%;
• Business property tax: 0%.

Key figures Household income and poverty in 2020: median disposable income per consumption unit in 2020: €25,020.^[24]

Business and commerce

Demographics

Source:^[25][26][27]

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Year	Population	Evolution
1793	997	N/A
1800	1,156	159
1806	1,310	154
1821	1,444	134
1831	1,559	115
1836	1,487	72
1841	1,370	117
1846	1,391	21
1851	1,297	94
1856	1,063	234
1861	1,040	23
1866	1,038	2
1871	1,050	12
1875	1,049	1
1880	1,013	36
1885	1,062	49
1890	692	370
1895	730	38
1900	722	8
1905	754	32
1910	752	2
1921	756	4
1926	828	72
1931	922	94
1936	965	33
1946	958	7
1954	823	135
1962	806	17
1968	785	21
1975	719	66
1982	713	6
1990	740	27
1999	783	43
2006	830	47
2007	837	7
2008	874	37
2009	909	35
2010	906	3
2011	902	4
2012	899	3
2013	904	5
2014	927	23
2015	923	4
2016	919	4
2017	915	4
2018	912	3
2019	913	1
2020	917	4
2021	921	4
2022	924	3
2023	928	4

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Education

Educational establishments :

• Primary school.
• Nursery school.

Health

Health professionals and establishments:^[28]

• Doctors in Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, Surbourg, Soultz-sous-Forêts, Goersdorf, Durrenbach, Woerth;
• Pharmacies in Merkwiller-Pechelbronn, Soultz-sous-Forêts, Woerth, Lembach;
• Hospitals in Lobsann, Goersdorf, Wissembourg, Haguenau.

Worship

• Catholic worship, Les Prairies de la Zorn parish community,^[29] diocese of Strasbourg.
• Protestant worship.^[30]

Twin towns

• Kutzenhausen, Bavaria since 31 May 1987.

Religious heritage

• Protestant church, rue de l'église, built between 1763 and 1765, used alternately by Protestants and Catholics until a Catholic church was built in 1905.^[31]
  • Great organ on gallery.^[32]

• Catholic church, rue des Acacias, built to plans by architect Bruno Steller between 1903 and 1905.^[33] Consecrated in 1905 by the bishop-coadjutor Zorn von Bulach, the patron saint of the church is St George.^[34]
  • Organ on gallery.^[35][36]

• Chapel Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix.^[37][38][39]
• The former synagogue.^[40][41] Destroyed in 1940 by the Hitler Youth, the youth wing of the Nazi party, it was destroyed in 1957 because it was in danger of collapsing.
• War memorial: conflicts commemorated: World War I – World War II – Algerian War.^[42][43]
• Calvary.

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  Protestant church (18th century)
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  Saint George catholic church
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  Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix chapel
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  The Maison rurale de l’Outre-Forêt, now an interpretation centre of heritage
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  Former bailiwick of the Sires de Fleckenstein, former presbytery (18th century)
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  Remains of a former fortified farmhouse
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  Ruins of a double-decker First Empire bench

Other heritage

• Mining remains, including a wooded slag heap.^[44]
• The commune is home to a museum of folk arts and traditions, the Maison rurale de l'Outre-Forêt,^[45] now a heritage interpretation centre.^[46]
• Porch tower at no. 26 route de Soultz.^[47]
• Bench known as the King of Rome bench.^[48]
• Well known as the pendulum well.^[49]