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Serene
Coat of arms of cheery
Cheerful (France)
Serene
region Grand Est
Department Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement Colmar-Ribeauvillé
Canton Ensisheim
Community association Pays Rhin-Brisach
Coordinates 47 ° 58 '  N , 7 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 58 '  N , 7 ° 33'  E
height 196-209 m
surface 22.40 km 2
Residents 1,040 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 46 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 68600
INSEE code

Mairie Cheerful

Heiteren is a French commune with 1040 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the canton of Ensisheim and to the Communauté de communes Pays Rhin-Brisach .

geography

The municipality of Heiteren is located in the Upper Rhine Plain , about 20 kilometers southeast of Colmar and seven kilometers southwest of Breisach am Rhein . The municipal area extends west to the old north arm of the Rhine-Rhône canal and to the east a few hundred meters to the parallel to the Rhine running Grand Canal d'Alsace . The district of Thierhurst on the border with the neighboring municipality of Nambsheim to the south belongs to Heiteren .

history

From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Heiteren 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 2007 2016
Residents 746 505 529 578 574 541 785 884 1042

Attractions

  • Church of St. James the Elder ( Église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur )
Southeast side
Southwest side
inside view
  • Chapel of Our Lady of Thierhurst and of the Sorrows ( Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Thierhurst et Notre-Dame-des-Douleurs )
West side
Southeast side
inside view
Listed Pietà
  • Water tower
  • Chapel of the Advocates of the Fourteen Saints

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 921-924.

See also

Web links

Commons : Cheerful  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Colmar district