Bollwiller

Bollwiller
region	Grand Est
Department	Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement	Mulhouse
Canton	Wittenheim
Community association	Mulhouse Alsace agglomeration
Coordinates	47 ° 51 ′ N , 7 ° 16 ′ E 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

Karlskirche

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.

Web links

Commons : Bollwiller - collection of images, videos and audio files

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 .

[1] Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Gebweiler district

[2] 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.

[3] Eike Jablonski: X Sorbopyrus auricularis - the rose hip pear. In: Gaartanheem.lu. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .