Arrondissement of Ribeauvillé

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The Arrondissement Ribeauvillé was an administrative district in the Haut-Rhin department in the French region of Alsace with the last 50,005 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2012) on an area of ​​461.72 km². The seat of the sub-prefecture was Ribeauvillé . On January 1, 2015, it was united with the Arrondissement of Colmar to form the Arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé .

history

On March 4, 1790, a district of Colmar was founded with the establishment of the Haut-Rhin department, which at the time also included the area of ​​the later arrondissement Ribeauvillé. On February 17, 1800, the Arrondissement of Colmar was founded. On May 18, 1871, the area was re-cut as the district of Rappoltsweiler in the district of Upper Alsace in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . At that time the district covered 459 km² and in 1885 had 61,791 inhabitants. In the course of the reintegration of Alsace into France on June 28, 1919 (Treaty of Versailles), the district of Rappoltsweiler became the Arrondissement Ribeauvillé.

See also : History of the Haut-Rhin department .

geography

The arrondissement bordered in the north on the arrondissement Sélestat-Erstein in the department Bas-Rhin , in the east and south on the arrondissement Colmar and in the west on the arrondissement Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in the department Vosges .

Map of the arrondissement of Ribeauvillé with administrative structure and location in the department of Haut-Rhin

There were four constituencies in the arrondissement:

Communities

The largest municipality (and only one with more than 5000 inhabitants in 1999) in the arrondissement was:

Before the dissolution, the following 32 municipalities existed:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2014/12/29/2014-1720/jo/texte