Soultz-Haut-Rhin

Coat of arms

Soultz-Haut-Rhin

Location within Grand Est region

Soultz-Haut-Rhin

Coordinates: 47°53′10″N 7°13′47″E / 47.886°N 7.2297°ECoordinates: 47°53′10″N 7°13′47″E / 47.886°N 7.2297°E

Country

Guebwiller

Région de Guebwiller

Government

• Mayor (2008–2014)

Thomas Birgaentzlé

Area¹

29.56 km² (11.41 sq mi)

Population (2009)²

7,311

• Density

250/km² (640/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

INSEE/Postal code

68315 / 68360

Elevation

239–1,421 m (784–4,662 ft)
(avg. 270 m or 890 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.

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

Château de Buchenek (historical museum)

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

INSEE

External links

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Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

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Soultz-Haut-Rhin

Geography

History

Demography

Places of interest

People

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