Guebwiller

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Guebwiller
Commune
St. Léger Church
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 47°54′30″N 7°12′39″E / 47.9083°N 7.2108°E / 47.9083; 7.2108Coordinates: 47°54′30″N 7°12′39″E / 47.9083°N 7.2108°E / 47.9083; 7.2108
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement	Thann-Guebwiller
Canton	Guebwiller
Intercommunality	CC de la région de Guebwiller
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Francis Kleitz[1]
Area 1	9.68 km2 (3.74 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[2]	11,022
• Density	1,100/km2 (2,900/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^[3] and its metropolitan area had a population of 30,506.^[4]

People[]

Guebwiller was the birthplace of

• Casimir de Rathsamhausen (1698-1786)
• Ignace Ritter (1732-1813), architect
• (1757-1837)
• Émile Keller (1820-1909)
• Niklaus Riggenbach (1817-1899), engineer
• (1819-1893)
• Théodore Deck (1823-1891), ceramist
• (1824-1909), writer and journalist
• Gustave Schlumberger (1844-1929), historian, Byzantinist, numismatist
• Andreas Bauer (1866-1900) missionary Franciscan friar, martyr in China
• (1872-1946)
• (1874-1939), physician
• Jean Schlumberger (1877-1968), publisher and writer
• (1878-1936), co-founder of Schlumberger. see Schlumberger Brothers
• Charles Hueber (1883-1943), politician
• (1884-1953), co-founder of Schlumberger. see Schlumberger Brothers
• (1891-1965), conductor
• Al Weill (1893-1969), boxing manager
• (1897-1989)
• Alfred Kastler (1902-1984), physicist
• Émile Baas (1906-1984), essayist
• (1907-2002), industrialist
• Armand Walter (1908-1995)
• Robert Schilling (historian) (1913–2004),
• Pierre Ritz (1922-2009), conductor and composer
• (1943-), prefect and politician
• (1958-), historian and writer

Twin towns[]

Guebwiller is twinned with:

• Lucerne (Switzerland)^[5]
• 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[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Guebwiller.

Wikisource has the text of a 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article about Guebwiller.

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

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