Guebwiller

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.

Guebwiller
Subprefecture and commune
St. Léger Church
Coat of arms
Location of Guebwiller
Guebwiller
Guebwiller
Coordinates: 47°54′30″N 7°12′39″E
CountryFrance
RegionGrand Est
DepartmentHaut-Rhin
ArrondissementThann-Guebwiller
CantonGuebwiller
IntercommunalityCommunauté de communes de la région de Guebwiller
Government
 • Mayor (2014–2020) Francis Kleitz
Area
1
9.68 km2 (3.74 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
11,094
 • Density1,100/km2 (3,000/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
68112 /68500
Elevation254–620 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.

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
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Guebwiller is twinned with:

Points of interest
Notre-Dame Church
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See also
  • Communes of the Haut-Rhin département

References
  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.
  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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