Gresswiller

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Coat of arms
Gresswiller
Location within Grand Est region  Gresswiller
Coordinates: 48°32′09″N 7°25′53″E / 48.5358°N 7.4314°ECoordinates: 48°32′09″N 7°25′53″E / 48.5358°N 7.4314°E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Molsheim
Canton	Mutzig
Government
• Mayor (2001–2014)	Jean-Louis Wietrich
Area^1	9.27 km^2 (3.58 sq mi)
Population (2006)^2	1,467
• Density	160/km^2 (410/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
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. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Gresswiller (German: Greßweiler or Gressweiler) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern 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.^[1]

See also

• Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

• INSEE commune file

1. The Millenium Planetarium of Gresswiller