Landersheim

Landersheim gets a mention in the Property schedule of Mauersmünster Abbey (“Besitzverzeichnis der Abtei Mauersmünster”) which was produced in the early twelfth century. Here it is named as Lantheresheim ("Lanther's homestead"). In the fourteenth century it turns up as “Lantersen” which becomes “Landersche” in popular parlance. The "Landersheim" spelling first appears in the Middle Ages among the imperial nobility (“Reichsritterschaft”) of lower Alsace.

In 1595 half of the locality was in the possession of the lords of Mittelhausen, which continued until their line came to an end in 1634. They introduced the reformation to the village which remained attached to the Protestant parish of Zehnacker until 1688. The other half of the locality was held by the Holzapfel family in common with the lords of Landsberg, and they also inherited the Mittelhausen share in 1634. They reintroduced the Catholic religion in 1688. A few years later, at the end of the seventeenth century, a large bourgeois family from Strasbourg and Colmar named Weinemer purchased three quarters of the village: the residual quarter remained with the Holzapfels. This ownership structure endured until 1789.

• Communes of the Bas-Rhin department