Balgau
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Colmar-Ribeauvillé | |
| Canton | Ensisheim | |
| Community association | Pays Rhin-Brisach | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 56 ' N , 7 ° 32' E | |
| height | 198-212 m | |
| surface | 9.49 km 2 | |
| Residents | 969 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 102 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68740 | |
| INSEE code | 68016 | |
 Mairie Balgau |
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Balgau (Alsatian "Balgäu") is a French commune with 969 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the community association Pays Rhin-Brisach .
history
Documents indicate that the settlement belonged to an abbey in 896. The name Balgau goes back to a noble family in the 14th and 15th centuries. The village was not spared the consequences of the Thirty Years' War . From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Balgau belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Colmar district in the Upper Alsace district .
Population development
| year | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2014 |
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| Residents | 442 | 408 | 421 | 486 | 543 | 629 | 708 | 841 | 954 |
| Source: Municipal directory, Cassini and INSEE | |||||||||
coat of arms
Description of coat of arms : Divided into silver and black; above a red lion growing out of the division .
Administration union
Balgau is a member of the cross- border local association Mittelhardt-Oberrhein , which promotes cross-border communal cooperation between municipalities in Alsace and Baden on the basis of the Karlsruhe Convention .
Attractions
The Saint-Nicolas ( St. Nicholas ) Church was built in 1861. In 1874 she received a Rinckenbach organ, which is now the oldest of the brothers Martin and Joseph Rinckenbach.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , p. 913.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1910: Register of municipalities in Germany 1900 - Colmar district
- ↑ http://www.gemeinde-eschbach.de/wirtschaftsstandort/glct_goez.php
