Soultz-Haut-Rhin | |
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Coordinates: 47°53′10″N 7°13′47″E / 47.886°N 7.2297°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Grand Est |
Department | Haut-Rhin |
Arrondissement | Thann-Guebwiller |
Canton | Guebwiller |
Intercommunality | Région de Guebwiller |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Marcello Rotolo[1] |
Area 1 | 29.56 km2 (11.41 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 7,027 |
• Density | 240/km2 (620/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 68315 /68360 |
Elevation | 239–1,421 m (784–4,662 ft) (avg. 270 m or 890 ft) |
Website | www |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Soultz-Haut-Rhin (French pronunciation: [sults o ʁɛ̃] ; German: Sulz/Oberelsaß) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département in Grand Est in north-eastern France.[3]
Its inhabitants are called Soultziens (male) or Soultziennes (female).
Geography
The town of Soultz-Haut-Rhin has an enclave located northeast of Goldbach-Altenbach.
The town of Soultz was built around a salted water source from which originates its name.
History
The origins of Soultz go back to the 7th century.
667 : the written name of Sulza (salted source) is mentioned in a donation from Adalrich, Duke of Alsace, father of Saint Odile, of the bann of Soultz to the convent of Ebersmunster.
The Soultz Railway was a 9.8 km (6.1 mi) long military light railway with a track gauge of 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) that the Germans built and operated during World War I from Soultz to the Niederwald terminus below the Hartmannswillerkopf near Wattwiller.
Demography
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Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968–2017)[5] |
Places of interest
Soultz has houses from the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
- The Church of Saint-Maurice is a Gothic building (1270–1489)
- Château de Buchenek is a 13th-century castle, now a museum
- La Nef des Jouets (The Toys Vessel, museum of toys)
- The 1860 town hall is a Renaissance Revival building
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Soultz%2C_chateau_du_Bucheneck.jpg/250px-Soultz%2C_chateau_du_Bucheneck.jpg)
People
- Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, who married Catherine Gontcharoff, eldest sister of Alexander Pushkin's wife, and killed Pushkin in a duel.
- Auguste-César West (1810–1880), prefect of Haut-Rhin from 1848 to 1850 then prefect of Bas-Rhin until 1855 and of Haute-Garonne until 1859.
- Bernard Genghini, footballer, born in 1958 in Soultz
- Pierre Villon (1901–1980), whose real name was Pierre Ginsburger, was a French political figure who took part in the Resistance.
- Katia Krafft, volcanologist, born in 1942 in Soultz. Wife of the volcanologist Maurice Krafft. Both of them were carried off in 1991 by a pyroclastical flow on the sides of the Mount Unzen (Japan).
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Commune de Soultz-Haut-Rhin (68315), INSEE
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Soultz-Haut-Rhin, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE