Bollwiller
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region | Grand Est | |
Department | Haut-Rhin | |
Arrondissement | Mulhouse | |
Canton | Wittenheim | |
Community association | Mulhouse Alsace agglomeration | |
Coordinates | 47 ° 51 ′ N , 7 ° 16 ′ E | |
height | 229-265 m | |
surface | 8.63 km 2 | |
Residents | 4,027 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 467 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 68540 | |
INSEE code | 68043 | |
Website | http://www.bollwiller.fr/ | |
Mairie Bollwiller |
Bollwiller ( German Bollweiler ) is a French commune with 4027 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).
location
The municipality is located in the Upper Rhine Plain between the city of Mulhouse in the south, 15 kilometers away, and Colmar in the north (30 km away), near Guebwiller (7 km northwest).
history
From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Bollwiller belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Gebweiler district in the Upper Alsace district .
Population development
year | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2017 |
Residents | 1154 | 2536 | 2846 | 3007 | 2951 | 3194 | 3550 | 3555 | 4027 |
coat of arms
Description of the coat of arms : In green, a slanting silver bar accompanied by three golden merlettes on each side.
traffic
Bollwiller station is on the Strasbourg – Basel railway line . The route is operated by the TER Alsace on the Strasbourg- Colmar-Mulhouse- Basel route every half hour. The railway line separates the community from neighboring Feldkirch .
Culture
The Baumann tree nursery founded by Jean Baumann in Bollweiler in 1740 was counted among the most important tree nurseries in the German-speaking area in 1838. Her name is associated with the cultivation of numerous plants, including the Bollweiler pear and the hazelnut variety Wunder from Bollweiler . An apple variety bred by Jean-Baptiste van Mons in Belgium around 1800 was named in honor of the owner of the famous Baumanns tree nursery Renette .
Personalities
- Alphonse Baumann (1826–1909), painter
- Amélie Zurcher (1858–1947), born in Bollwiller, is considered to be the founder of potash mining in the Bassin potassique north-west of Mulhouse.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 1178-1184.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Gebweiler district
- ↑ Sylvia Butenschön (Ed.): Early tree nurseries in Germany: For the benefit, for ornament and for the best of the country (= workbooks of the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning of the TU Berlin , volume 76). Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7983-2414-5 , p. 28.
- ↑ Eike Jablonski: X Sorbopyrus auricularis - the rose hip pear. In: Gaartanheem.lu. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .