Travel Guide Illzach

You have to dive into the history books to see how man can transform a site into a few millennia in a few millennia. The history of Illzach begins when, well before our era, Danube farmers came on the banks of one of the arms of the Ill building their town consisting of large triangular huts, at the very location of the current industrial zone of Modenheim, Le Napoléon. These men and women already worked with remote areas, as demonstrated by the numerous shells of shells gathered in their graves, exposed today to the Historical museum of Mulhouse and which constitute the most complete Neolithic jewelry Collection in Europe. Until the age of iron, man is present in this territory.The importance of the site will be confirmed during the Gallo-Roman era, which is prosperous thanks to its strategic situation. On the location of the current residence Le Cheverny, rue de Mulhouse, was a castle of the th or th century, occupied by the lords of Illzach. It is to the counts of Wurtenberg that the city belongs, from the beginning of the th century. In the th century, Mulhouse needed arable land to feed its population, as well as meadows, forests and sand. The brothers Wurtenberg vendirent Illzach and Modenheim for 3 020 guilders. 350 years later, Illzach became an independent city. It followed a period of peace until the world wars. When the population returns, in February 1945, everything is nothing but desolation. Then start the time, as everywhere, of reconstruction. It is this story that the inhabitants of Illzach will tell you because despite an important economic fabric and a growing population and the modernity of the city, each retains, in its own way, the soul of the past.