Kleingœft
Encyclopedia
Kleingœft is a commune
in the Bas-Rhin
department in Alsace
in north-eastern France
.
and Maennolsheim
to the northeast; Westhouse-Marmoutier
to the southeast; and Lochwiller
to the west.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin is a department of France. The name means "Lower Rhine". It is the more populous and densely populated of the two departments of the Alsace region, with 1,079,013 inhabitants in 2006.- History :...
department in Alsace
Alsace
Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...
in north-eastern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
.
Geography
Surrounding communes are WolschheimWolschheim
Wolschheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-References:*...
and Maennolsheim
Maennolsheim
Maennolsheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-References:*...
to the northeast; Westhouse-Marmoutier
Westhouse-Marmoutier
Westhouse-Marmoutier is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-References:*...
to the southeast; and Lochwiller
Lochwiller
Lochwiller is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-References:*...
to the west.
Landmarks
- Chapel of Betbur
- Constructed in the twelfth century, the chapel was originally the parish church of Betbur. Betbur was destroyed during or before the German Peasants' WarGerman Peasants' WarThe German Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt was a widespread popular revolt in the German-speaking areas of Central Europe, 1524–1526. At its height in the spring and summer of 1525, the conflict involved an estimated 300,000 peasants: contemporary estimates put the dead at 100,000...
, and a new village was constructed nearby on the site of what is now known as Kleingœft. The chapel retained its role as a parish church, now being the parish church of Kleingœft, its cemetery being the Kleingœft village cemetery. Later a new larger church was built in the centre of Kleingœft, but the Chapel of Betbur is still open and can be visited: occasionally religious services are still celebrated in it.