Leymen
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Mulhouse | |
| Canton | Saint-Louis | |
| Community association | Saint-Louis agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 30 ' N , 7 ° 29' E | |
| height | 315-584 m | |
| surface | 11.64 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,208 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 104 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68220 | |
| INSEE code | 68182 | |
 Church of St. Leodegar / Saint-Léger |
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Leymen (German Leimen , Alsatian Layme ) is a French commune with 1208 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It is a member municipality of the Saint-Louis Agglomération municipal association .
geography
Leymen is located in the Sundgau on the Birsig river and thus in the Leimental ; the village is surrounded on three sides by Switzerland . Basel is about 13 kilometers away, Mulhouse , seat of the sub-prefecture , is about 43 kilometers to the north; Altkirch , the capital of the Sundgau, is about 30 kilometers northwest of Leymen.
Neighboring communities of Leymen are Hagenthal-le-Haut , Hagenthal-le-Bas , Neuwiller and Liebenswiller in France and the Swiss communities Biel-Benken , Bättwil , Hofstetten-Flüh , Metzerlen-Mariastein and Rodersdorf .
history
In 735 the place was mentioned for the first time as "Leimone" . The name can be traced back to the soil structure made of clay , which also gave the name to the neighboring Leimental in Switzerland. In 1910 the last section of the Basel – Rodersdorf railway went into operation, and Leymen also had a train station at that time. Today Leymen is a community in the greater Basel area that is also valued by the Swiss.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2017 |
| Residents | 870 | 931 | 937 | 896 | 915 | 1055 | 1122 | 1208 |
traffic
With the Leymen train station, the place has a station on the international railway line Basel – Rodersdorf , whereby it is the only operating point on French territory. The station is served by line 10 of Baselland Transport AG (BLT), which connects the region with the Basel tram network and also runs to Dornach .
Attractions
- Saint-Léger church from the 19th century
- Landskron castle ruins
- Chapel of Âmes-du-Purgatoire (Chapel of the Souls of Purgatory)
- Chapel of Sainte-Walburge (Heiligenbrunn)
Rue Principale
railway station
Landskron castle ruins
Chapel of the Souls of Purgatory
Heiligenbrunn Chapel
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , p. 622.
