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Country
  
France

Department
  
Haut-Rhin

Canton
  
Guebwiller

Local time
  
Saturday 12:11 PM

Region
  
Grand Est

Arrondissement
  
Thann-Guebwiller

Area
  
9.68 km²

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Intercommunality
  
Communauté de communes de la région de Guebwiller

Weather
  
12°C, Wind SE at 6 km/h, 45% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Parc de la Marseillaise, Domaine Schlumberger, Château du Burgstall, Église Saint-Léger

Guebwiller (French: Guebwiller, [ɡebvilɛʁ]; Alsatian: Gàwiller [ˈkaːviləʁ]; German: Gebweiler) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est currently in north-eastern France.

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Map of 68500 Guebwiller, 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 2006, Guebwiller had a total population of 11,609 and its metropolitan area a population of 31,868.

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 monk, martyr in China
  • Jeanne Bucher (1872-1946)
  • Prosper Merklen (1874-1939), physician
  • Jean Schlumberger (1877-1968), publisher and writer
  • Charles Hueber (1883-1943), politician
  • 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)
  • Castelfiorentino (Italy)

    • Points of interest

  • 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

    • References

    Guebwiller Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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