Lautenbach (Haut-Rhin)
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region | Grand Est | |
Department | Haut-Rhin | |
Arrondissement | Thann-Guebwiller | |
Canton | Guebwiller | |
Community association | Region of Guebwiller | |
Coordinates | 47 ° 56 ' N , 7 ° 10' E | |
height | 353-1,160 m | |
surface | 13.02 km 2 | |
Residents | 1,511 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 116 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 68610 | |
INSEE code | 68177 | |
View over Lautenbach |
Lautenbach is a French commune with 1,511 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller , the canton of Guebwiller and is a member of the Région de Guebwiller municipality .
geography
The municipality of Lautenbach is located in the Lauch Valley in the Vosges , about 30 kilometers southwest of Colmar . The 1272 m high Petit Ballon (Kahler Wasen) rises northeast of Lautenbach . The municipality is part of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park .
The districts of Schweighouse and Saint-Gangolf belong to Lautenbach .
history
From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Lautenbach 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 .
Population development
year | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
Residents | 2,049 | 1127 | 1262 | 1315 | 1372 | 1394 | 1572 | 1570 | 1511 |
Attractions
- The collegiate church of St-Michel et St-Gangolphe was built in the 12th century in the Romanesque style.
- Nine houses for canons of the Lautenbach collegiate monastery were built in the 18th century in the Baroque style.
- The station from 1884, formerly the terminus of the Bollwiller – Lautenbach railway , was the setting in the film Jules et Jim by François Truffaut .
- Church of St. Michael in the Schweighouse district
Church tower of the Lautenbach collegiate church
Personalities
- Jean Egen (1920–1995), Alsatian journalist and book author
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 500-509.