Alfred Meyer was an Alsatian patriot who informed the French authorities in 1914-18. Denounced, he was shot in 1916 at Ile Napoléon (see the monument of the shot on the circuit n° 11 of the 5 districts in Rixheim). Around the square, there is a large housing estate in the rue de Dieppe dating from 1955 and created by the company "Habitat et Loisirs". Among the 96 individual houses built, several belonged to companies (Manurhin, SACM, Gluck, Schaeffer).