Guebwiller

Guebwiller
Guebwiller
	Subprefecture and commune
	St. Léger Church
	Coat of arms
	Location of Guebwiller
	Guebwiller Guebwiller
	Coordinates: 47°54′30″N 7°12′39″E / 47.9083°N 7.2108°E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement	Thann-Guebwiller
Canton	Guebwiller
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de la région de Guebwiller
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Francis Kleitz
Area 1	9.68 km2 (3.74 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2017)	11,094
• Density	1,100/km2 (3,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	68112 /68500
Elevation	254–620 m (833–2,034 ft) ; (avg. 300 m or 980 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Guebwiller (French: Guebwiller, pronounced [ɡebvilɛʁ]; Alsatian: Gàwiller [ˈkaːviləʁ]; German: Gebweiler) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est currently in north-eastern France.

It is situated 20 km (12 mi) northwest of Mulhouse at the foot of the Vosges mountains. The Ballon de Guebwiller, the highest point in the Vosges, lies 8 km (5.0 mi) to the west of the town.

In 2015, Guebwiller had a population of 11,319^[2] and its metropolitan area had a population of 30,506.^[3]

People

Guebwiller was the birthplace of

Casimir de Rathsamhausen (1698-1786)
Ignace Ritter (1732-1813), architect
François Joseph Rudler (1757-1837)
Émile Keller (1820-1909)
Niklaus Riggenbach (1817-1899), engineer
Frédéric Ritter (1819-1893)
Théodore Deck (1823-1891), ceramist
Joseph Guerber (1824-1909), writer and journalist
Gustave Schlumberger (1844-1929), historian, Byzantinist, numismatist
Andreas Bauer (1866-1900) missionary Franciscan friar, martyr in China
Jeanne Bucher (1872-1946)
Prosper Merklen (1874-1939), physician
Jean Schlumberger (1877-1968), publisher and writer
Francois Conrad Schlumberger (1878-1936), co-founder of Schlumberger. see Schlumberger Brothers
Charles Hueber (1883-1943), politician
Emile Henry Marcel Schlumberger (1884-1953), co-founder of Schlumberger. see Schlumberger Brothers
Louis Gava (1891-1965), conductor
Joseph Storck (1897-1989)
Alfred Kastler (1902-1984), physicist
Émile Baas (1906-1984), essayist
Pierre Lévy (1907-2002), industrialist
Armand Walter (1908-1995)
Robert Schilling (historian) (1913–2004),
Pierre Ritz (1922-2009), conductor and composer
Roland Hodel (1943-), prefect and politician
Sonia Pelletier-Gautier (1958-), historian and writer

Twin towns

Guebwiller is twinned with:

Lucerne (Switzerland)^[4]
Castelfiorentino (Italy)

Points of interest

Notre-Dame Church

Romanesque and early gothic church Église Saint-Léger
Gothic former Dominican abbey Les Dominicains, now used as a cultural center.
Early Renaissance townhall ( Hôtel de ville)
Neoclassical church Église Notre-Dame, largest Neoclassical church in Alsace
Musée Théodore Deck et des pays du Florival, largest museum in Haut-Rhin outside Colmar and Mulhouse
Parc de la Marseillaise
Synagogue of Guebwiller

References

^ "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2015Commune de Guebwiller (68112)". INSEE. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
^ "Aire urbaine de Guebwiller (198)". INSEE. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
^ "Partnerstädte der Stadt Luzern". Stadt Luzern (in German). Archived from the original on 2013-06-21. Retrieved 2013-08-01.

External links

Official website (in French)
Homepage of the Musée du Florival
Wikipedia page for Église Notre Dame (in French)
The Florivaliens homepage

[1] "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[2] "Populations légales 2015Commune de Guebwiller (68112)". INSEE. Retrieved 23 May 2019.

[3] "Aire urbaine de Guebwiller (198)". INSEE. Retrieved 23 May 2019.

[Lucerne_twinnings-4] "Partnerstädte der Stadt Luzern". Stadt Luzern (in German). Archived from the original on 2013-06-21. Retrieved 2013-08-01.

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