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Betschdorf is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in northeastern France. It is located about 45 km north-northeast of Strasbourg on the northern edge of the ''Forêt de Haguenau'', the largest undivided forest in France. Betschdorf is a center of craft pottery manufacture, especially salt-glazed stoneware. ==History== The vicinity has been inhabited since neolithic times. In 1912, stelae dedicated to the Roman gods Mars and Diana were discovered in the municipal forest. A document dated 733 refers to a place called ''Batenondovilla'' near modern Betschdorf. The 7th-9th century ''Traditiones Wizenburgenses'', chronicles of the Benedictine monastery of Wissembourg, mention a donation by Helphant of ''Batanesheim'', grandson of ''Battacho''. Mention of twin villages begins in the early 14th century. A 1363 document is the first to use the names Oberbetschdorf and Niederbetschdorf (Upper and Lower Betschdorf). The two villages formed part of a district called the Hattgau, which became property of the count of Hanau in 1480. His successors, the counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg, retained property rights after the area fell under French control via the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, and were inherited by the landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1736. The area remained largely German-speaking and Lutheran under Bourbon rule. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Betschdorf」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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