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Country
  
France

Department
  
Haut-Rhin

Canton
  
Guebwiller

Area
  
29.56 km²

Local time
  
Monday 2:58 PM

Region
  
Grand Est

Arrondissement
  
Thann-Guebwiller

Intercommunality
  
Région de Guebwiller

Population
  
6,640 (1999)

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Weather
  
16°C, Wind E at 6 km/h, 44% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Hartmannswillerkopf, Cave Vinicole du Vieil Arm, Château de Buchenek, Monument des Diables B, Col Amic

Soultz-Haut-Rhin (German: Sulz/Oberelsaß) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

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Map of Soultz-Haut-Rhin, France

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.

Demography

  • 1962 : 4750
  • 1968 : 4910
  • 1975 : 5689
  • 1982 : 5696
  • 1990 : 5867
  • 1999 : 6640
  • 2006 : 7184

    • Places of interest

    Soultz has houses from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

  • The Church Saint-Mauritius, l'église Saint-Maurice (1270–1489)
  • Château de Buchenek is a 13th-century castle, now a museum
  • La Nef des Jouets (The Toys Vessel, museum of toys)

    • 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).

    • References

    Soultz-Haut-Rhin Wikipedia
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