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Commune of Guebwiller |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Alsace |
| Department | Haut-Rhin (sous-préfecture) |
| Arrondissement | Guebwiller |
| Canton | Guebwiller (chief town) |
| Intercommunality | Région de Guebwiller |
| Mayor | Daniel Weber (2001-2007) |
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| Elevation | 254 m–620 m (avg. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Alsace (Alsace alzas Alsatian and Elsass pre-1996 German: Elsaß; Alsatia is one of the 26 Regions of France, located on the eastern In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Haut-Rhin is a ''département'' of France named after the Rhine river Subprefectures (sous-préfectures are the administrative towns of arrondissements in France that do not contain the prefecture for its department. The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Guebwiller is an arrondissement of France located in the Haut-Rhin département, in the Alsace The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. 300 m) |
| Land area¹ | 9. 68 km² |
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11,525 |
| - Density | 1,190/km² |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 68112/ 68500 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0. As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume The INSEE code is a numerical indexing code used by the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE to identify various entities including communes Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E | |
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Guebwiller (French: Guebwiller, pronounced [gebvilɛʁ]; Alsatian: Gàwiller, pronounced [ˈkaːviləʁ]; German: Gebweiler) is a commune of the Haut-Rhin département, in Alsace, France. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people Alsatian ( Elsässerditsch; Alsacien Elsässisch or Elsässerdeutsch) is a Low Alemannic German dialect spoken in most of Alsace, a region The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. Haut-Rhin is a ''département'' of France named after the Rhine river In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Alsace (Alsace alzas Alsatian and Elsass pre-1996 German: Elsaß; Alsatia is one of the 26 Regions of France, located on the eastern It is situated 20 km to the northwest of Mulhouse at the foot of the Vosges mountains. Mulhouse (Mulhouse myluz Alsatian: Milhüsa or Milhüse, pronounced; Mülhausen i The Vosges (voːʒ or Vosges Mountains are a Mountain range in eastern France, stretching along the west side of the Rhine valley The Ballon de Guebwiller, the highest point in the Vosges, lies 8 km to the west of the town. Le Grand Ballon ( German: Großer Belchen; translates as big balloon) is the apex of the Vosges mountains, located 25 Kilometres
Guebwiller was the birthplace of the physicist and Nobel laureate Alfred Kastler, of the Schlumberger brothers, and of the ceramicist Théodore Deck. A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning This is a list of Nobel Prize Laureates awarded for their outstanding contributions to Humanitarian causes for Peace, work in Literature Alfred Kastler ( May 3, 1902 &ndash January 7, 1984) was a French Physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Conrad Schlumberger (2 October 1878 in Guebwiller – 9 May 1936 in Stockholm) and Marcel Schlumberger (21 June 1884 in Guebwiller – 9 May The word ceramic is derived from the Greek word κεραμικός ( keramikos) Joseph-Théodore Deck (1823-1891 was a 19th century French Potter.
Sights
- Romanesque and early gothic church Église Saint-Léger
- Gothic former Dominican abbey Les Dominicains, now used as a cultural center. Regional characteristics of Romanesque architecture|Romanesque art Romanesque architecture is the term that is used to describe the architecture of Middle Ages Europe which See also Gothic art Gothic architecture is a style of Architecture which flourished during the high and late medieval period. The Order of Preachers ( Latin: Ordo Praedicatorum) after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is An abbey (from Latin abbatia derived from Syriac abba "father" is a Christian Monastery or
- Early Renaissance townhall ( Hôtel de ville)
- Neoclassical church Église Notre-Dame, largest neoclassical church in Alsace
- Musée du Florival, largest museum in Haut-Rhin outside Colmar and Mulhouse
Twin towns
Guebwiller is twinned with:
