Fréland
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Colmar-Ribeauvillé | |
| Canton | Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines | |
| Community association | Vallée de Kaysersberg | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 10 ′ N , 7 ° 12 ′ E | |
| height | 327-1,221 m | |
| surface | 19.74 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,343 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 68 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68240 | |
| INSEE code | 68097 | |
| Website | http://www.freland.fr/ | |
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Fréland (Eng. Urbach b. Kaysersberg ) is a French commune in the canton of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). She is a member of the Communauté de communes de la Vallée de Kaysersberg .
geography
The community with 1343 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) is remote in the Vosges eight kilometers northwest of Kaysersberg . The Col du Fréland , an 826 meter high pass popular with two-wheelers, is named after the place . It leads over the Forêt communale de Fréland and Aubure to Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines in the Val d'Argent valley . The municipality is largely forested and part of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park .
history
From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Andolsheim belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the district of Rappoltsweiler in the district of Upper Alsace .
Population development
| year | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1444 | 978 | 1040 | 1033 | 1100 | 1134 | 1292 | 1397 | 1343 |
language
The area around Lapoutroie is one of the few Alsatian areas with an originally Francophone regional language. The endangered Which (dt. Welsch ) or Vosgien is a Gallo-Roman dialect from the group of Langues d'oïl , which is closely related to Walloon .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 712-716.
