Canton of Wissembourg

Canton of Wissembourg
region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Haguenau-Wissembourg
Centralisateur bureau	Wissembourg
Residents	50,576 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	126 inhabitants / km²
surface	400.61 km²
Communities	44
INSEE code	6723
Location of the canton of Wissembourg in the Bas-Rhin department

The canton of Wissembourg is a French constituency in the Bas-Rhin département in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).

The canton of Wissembourg is 400.61 km² and in 2017 had 50,576 inhabitants, which corresponds to a population density of 126 inhabitants per km². Until 2014, the neighboring cantons were the cantons Lauterbourg , Seltz , Soultz-sous-Forêts , Wœrth and Niederbronn-les-Bains in the Haguenau arrondissement, starting clockwise in the east . On the German side is the municipality of Schweigen-Rechtenbach , which belongs to the district of Südliche Weinstrasse .

history

The canton was founded on March 4, 1790 as part of the establishment of the départements as part of what was then the "Wissembourg District". With the establishment of the arrondissements on February 17, 1800, the canton was redesigned as part of the Wissembourg arrondissement. From 1871 to 1919 there was no further subdivision of the former Weißenburg district . On June 28, 1919, the canton again became part of the Wissembourg arrondissement.

See also : History of the Bas-Rhin department  and History of the Wissembourg district

Communities

The canton consists of 44 municipalities with a total of 50,576 inhabitants (as of 2017) on a total area of ​​400.61 km ² :

local community	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE	Post Code
Aschbach	682	4.32	158	67012	67150
Beinheim	1,875	15.23	123	67025	67930
Betschdorf	4.161	28.11	148	67339	67660
Buhl	524	4.40	119	67069	67470
Cleebourg	720	10.59	68	67074	67160
Climbach	440	7.15	62	67075	67510
Crœttwiller	176	2.55	69	67079	67470
Drachenbronn-Birlenbach	762	7.13	107	67104	67160
Eberbach-Seltz	422	4.14	102	67113	67470
Had	1.928	18.91	102	67184	67690
To hope	1,125	9.45	119	67206	67250
Hunspach	637	5.49	116	67213	67250
Ingolsheim	319	4.46	72	67221	67250
Keffenach	193	2.39	81	67232	67250
Kesseldorf	404	7.26	56	67235	67930
Lauterbourg	2,304	11.25	205	67261	67630
Memmelshoffen	332	1.82	182	67288	67250
Mothern	2.006	10.30	195	67305	67470
Munchhausen	763	5.92	129	67308	67470
Neewiller-près-Lauterbourg	656	7.34	89	67315	67630
Niederlauterbach	965	11.22	86	67327	67630
Rœdern	931	6.88	135	67330	67470
Oberhoffen-lès-Wissembourg	324	3.03	107	67344	67160
Oberlauterbach	540	5.32	102	67346	67160
Oberrœdern	525	5.00	105	67349	67250
Retschwiller	285	3.26	87	67394	67250
Riedseltz	1,087	10.02	108	67400	67160
Rittershoffen	911	12.13	75	67404	67690
Red	472	3.24	146	67416	67160
Salmbach	578	8.91	65	67432	67160
Schaffhouse-près-Seltz	558	4.49	124	67440	67470
Scheibenhard	822	4.62	178	67443	67630
Schleithal	1,428	9.12	157	67451	67160
Schœnenbourg	688	5.47	126	67455	67250
Seebach	1,672	17.11	98	67351	67160
Seltz	3,235	21.00	154	67463	67470
Wins	508	8.10	63	67466	67160
Soultz-sous-Forêts	3,177	15.15	210	67474	67250
Steinseltz	596	5.47	109	67479	67160
Stundwiller	491	3.32	148	67484	67250
Surbourg	1,699	10.46	162	67487	67250
Trimbach	574	3.94	146	67494	67470
Wintzenbach	544	6.96	78	67541	67470
Wissembourg	7,537	48.18	156	67544	67160
Canton of Wissembourg	50,576	400.61	126	6723	-

Until the nationwide reorganization of the French cantons in March 2015, the canton of Wissembourg included the 13 municipalities of Climbach , Cleebourg , Lembach , Niedersteinbach , Oberhoffen-lès-Wissembourg , Obersteinbach , Riedseltz , Rott , Schleithal , Seebach , Steinseltz , Wingen and Wissembourg . Its layout corresponded to an area of ​​197.07 km ² . Before 2015 it had a different INSEE code than it does today, namely 6734.

Population development

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012
14 652	15 150	15 581	15,983	16 191	17 256	17 479	17 117