Ban de la Roche

Le Ban de la Roche (German: Steintal) is the name of an ancient seigneurie, later a county.

This small region is referred by its old Ancien régime name because of its strong identity and because it is relatively different from its neighbors, including the fact that it was a Lutheran community surrounded by Catholic villages.

One of the most important lords of Ban de la Roche was Georges-Jean de Veldenz (German: Georg Hans von Veldenz) (1543–1592), son-in-law of the king of Sweden, and founder of the city of Phalsbourg.

There was an Amish farm ("cense" in the local way of speaking) called Sommerhof in La Haute Goutte.

Le Ban de la Roche is twinned with Woolstock, Iowa, where many Bandelarochians emigrated.