Haguenau arrondissement

The Arrondissement Haguenau was an administrative district in the Bas-Rhin department in the French region of Alsace with 130,835 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2012) on an area of ​​666 km². With the dissolution of the Arrondissement of Wissembourg , the Arrondissement of Haguenau- Wissembourg was created on January 1, 2015 , the seat was Haguenau, the last and first sub-prefect was Sylvette Misson (from 2008).

history

On March 4, 1790, with the establishment of the Bas-Rhin department, a Haguenau district was also founded, which essentially coincided with today's arrondissement. The district was dissolved with the establishment of the arrondissements on February 17, 1800 and integrated into the new arrondissements of Strasbourg and Wissembourg.

Since May 18, 1871, the area revived as the district of Hagenau in the district of Lower Alsace in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . At that time the district covered 659 km² and in 1885 had 73,316 inhabitants.

The arrondissement was founded in the course of the reintegration of Alsace into France on June 28, 1919 ( Treaty of Versailles ).

On January 1, 2015, the Haguenau and Wissembourg arrondissements were merged to form the new Haguenau-Wissembourg arrondissement .

See also : History of the Bas-Rhin department

geography

The arrondissement bordered in the north on the arrondissement Wissembourg , in the east on Germany with the administrative district Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg , in the south on the arrondissement Strasbourg-Campagne , in the southwest on the arrondissement Saverne and in the northwest on the arrondissement Sarreguemines in the department Moselle ( Lorraine ).

Cantons

Map of the Arrondissement of Haguenau with its administrative structure and location in the Bas-Rhin department

The arrondissement was divided into three cantons:

• Bischwiller
• Haguenau
• Niederbronn-les-Bains

See also: List of cantons in the Bas-Rhin department

Communities

The arrondissement comprised 56 municipalities, the largest municipalities in the arrondissement in 2012 were:

• Haguenau (34,406 inhabitants)
• Bischwiller (12,643 inhabitants)
• Reichshoffen (5,516 inhabitants)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Decree No. 2014-1722 of the French Ministry of the Interior dissolving the arrondissements of Strasbourg-Campagne and Wissembourg and reallocating communes in the arrondissement of Saverne in the Bas-Rhin department