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
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Coordinates: 47°54′30″N 7°12′39″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 km^2 (3.74 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	11,094
• Density	1,100/km^2 (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 km^2 (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

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

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.

External links

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