Husseren-les-Châteaux

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Husseren-les-Châteaux
Coat of arms of Husseren-les-Châteaux
Husseren-les-Châteaux (France)
Husseren-les-Châteaux
region Grand Est
Department Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement Colmar-Ribeauvillé
Canton Wintzenheim
Community association Pays de Rouffach, Vignobles et Châteaux
Coordinates 48 ° 2 ′  N , 7 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′  N , 7 ° 17 ′  E
height 320-595 m
surface 1.20 km 2
Residents 514 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 428 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 68420
INSEE code

Mairie Husseren-les-Châteaux

Husseren-les-Châteaux (German houses ) is a French commune with 514 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).

geography

Husseren-les-Châteaux is located at the foot of the Vosges , about seven kilometers southwest of Colmar in Alsace . The municipality is part of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park . Husseren is the highest village on the Alsace Wine Route . The municipality is enclosed by that of the municipality of Eguisheim .

history

From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Husseren-les-Châteaux 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 2014
Residents 436 309 333 367 362 377 397 501 488

Attractions

  • three castle ruins of the castles group Drei Exen , partly in the municipality of Husseren
  • Church of St. Pankratius ( Église Saint-Pancrace ), built in 1884
View of Husseren, in the background the Drei Exen
Church of St. Pankratius

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 1323-1326.

Web links

Commons : Husseren-les-Châteaux  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

proof

  1. a b Register of municipalities in Germany 1900 - Colmar district ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de