Buhl (Haut-Rhin)

Buhl
region	Grand Est
Department	Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement	Thann-Guebwiller
Canton	Guebwiller
Community association	Region of Guebwiller
Coordinates	47 ° 56 ' N , 7 ° 11' E Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ' N , 7 ° 11' E
height	313-842 m
surface	8.80 km 2
Residents	3,310 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	376 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	68530
INSEE code	68058
Website	http://www.ville-buhl.fr/
	; Mairie Buhl

Buhl (German Bühl ) is a French commune with 3310 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). She is a member of the Association of Municipalities Région de Guebwiller .

geography

Buhl is located on the river Lauch in the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park . The D430 serves as the departmental road. It crosses a valley known as Florival , which extends south-east to Guebwiller . Buhl's neighboring villages are Murbach in the southwest (in between is the district of Rimlishof ), the Hugstein settlement with castle ruins in the southeast and Schweighouse (district of Lautenbach ) in the north. On both sides, the area is heavily forested, the east by a spur of the Forêt de Orschwihr communal (community forest of Orschwihr ).

Buhl station was on the Bollwiller – Lautenbach railway line .

history

Buhl was first mentioned in writing under the name Bühele in 1135. Later spellings were Buohele , Buohile , Bühel , and since the 16th century Bühl .

In 1227 Hugo (Hugues) de Rothenbourg, abbot of the Murbach monastery , had a castle built to protect the entrance to the Murbach valley.

From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Buhl 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 .

Number of inhabitants
year	1826	1861	1905	1936	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2017
Residents	975	2,090	3,352	2,635	2,931	2,945	3,048	2,674	2,755	3,079	3,190	3,310
From 1962 official figures excluding residents with a second residence

coat of arms

Description : A silver triangle in red .

Attractions

In the neo-Romanesque church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste ( John the Baptist ) from the 19th century , you can see the Bühler winged altar , an altarpiece from the second half of the 1490s, which was created by successors and imitators of Martin Schongauer . It was brought to Buhl from a Colmar monastery during the French Revolution to protect it from destruction.

The ruins of Hugstein Castle from the 13th century are at the entrance to the Murbach Valley . Their remains are not only on the municipality of Buhl, but also on that of Guebwiller , because the border between the two municipalities runs right through the middle of the keep .