GATTERs
IN ALSACE, FRANCE
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The Gatters of Alsace were found since
the early 19th century in the villages of Bischheim and Hochfelden, located
towards the northwest of Strassbourg (see red marked area in map below).
Around 1880 they appear also in Strassburg. It is quite possible that
there is a link with the Gatters of the Palatinate region in Germany (about
40 kilometers further north). However, dispersed Gatters appear in France
already in the early 1700s.
Also to the east and southeast of Strassbourg on the German side of the
Rhine River (in Altenheim and Waldkirch) Gatters were found already around
the year 1600.
Today the Franch Gatters live spread between the Alsace and the region of Paris.
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Strassbourg, capital of the Alsace Region in the 1840s |
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Map of the Region around Strassbourg |
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Bischheim is located between Hochfelden
and Strassbourg
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| ...............The town of Hochfelden in Alsace |
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