Berrwiller

Located against the last foothills of the «Hartmannswillerkopf» or «Vieil Armand», Berrwiller and its 1,100 inhabitants are nestled in a friendly and peaceful area.
Equally situated between Cernay and Soultz and at a height of around 250 meters, the village spreads between 2 main roads: the RN 83 in the south east, one of the major roads of Alsace and the typical wine road in the north west.

A written work found in the archives of the Murbach Abbey and dated to the year 796 tells that a certain Folkmar as well as the Count Eberhardt (Saint Odile’s brother) gave some lands and vineyards they owned in the villages of Barovillare and Beroldsvillare to that same Abbey. Those were the names of the village of Berrwiller and its annex Bertschwiller at the time. The two villages were later given to the Count Pierre of Bollwiller and then sublet to the Waldners of Freunstein until the French Revolution in 1789. Joined to the Hapsburg provotship in the 13th century, Berrwiller and it annex belonged to the Basel bishopric and were under the protection of the Princes/Abbots of Murbach and Lure. The parish was only united to the Strasbourg diocese in 1802.
The village was burnt down and pillaged during the Middle Ages and the Thirty Years War, but Berrwiller was the most severely touched during the First World War and the inhabitants had to be evacuated. The village was rebuilt between 1920 and 1925 and then developed harmoniously. The population of Berrwiller has been regularly increasing for the past 30 years.

Mairie de Berrwiller
28 rue de l'Or
F-68500 Berrwiller
Tel 33 (0) 389 76 73 24
Fax 33 (0) 389 76 77 73

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