Gresswiller

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Commune
The town hall in Gresswiller
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 48°32′09″N 7°25′53″E / 48.5358°N 7.4314°E / 48.5358; 7.4314Coordinates: 48°32′09″N 7°25′53″E / 48.5358°N 7.4314°E / 48.5358; 7.4314
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Molsheim
Canton	Mutzig
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pierre Thielen
Area 1	9.27 km2 (3.58 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	1,681
• Density	180/km2 (470/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	67168 /67190
Elevation	192–322 m (630–1,056 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Gresswiller (German: Greßweiler or Gressweiler) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France.

Geography[]

Adjacent communes[]

Mollkirch, Rosenwiller, Dinsheim-sur-Bruche, Heiligenberg, and Mutzig.

Notable people[]

Auguste Dubois, painter and engraver (1892–1973) was born at Gresswiller. Between 1920 and 1922 he worked closely with Ettore Bugatti whose automobile factory was located at nearby Molsheim.

Landmarks[]

Mechanism for the Gresswiller planetarium

Unusually, Gresswiller has its own orrery.^[2]

See also[]

• Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References[]

• INSEE commune file

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