Michelbach-le-Haut

Michelbach-le-Haut ( German Ober-Michelbach ) is a French commune with 597 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 Mulhouse , the canton of Saint-Louis and the municipality of Saint-Louis Agglomération .

geography

The community of Michelbach-le-Haut is located in the southeast of the Sundgau , about twelve kilometers west of Basel city center.

Neighboring communities of Michelbach-le-Haut are Ranspach-le-Bas in the north, Attenschwiller in the east, Wentzwiller in the southeast, Folgensbourg in the south, Muespach-le-Haut in the southwest and Knœringue in the west.

From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Michelbach-le-Haut belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the district of Mulhouse in the district of Upper Alsace .

From 1915 on, the community owned a common train station with Attenschwiller on the Waldighoffen – Saint-Louis-la-Chaussée railway line . This comprised two sidings and a loading siding. Passenger traffic was discontinued in 1955 and the line closed in 1960.

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Saint Jacques le Majeur Church ( St. James the Elder ), a neo-Gothic building from 1868/1869. Stones from the abolished Benedictine monastery were used for the construction.

Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 624-626.

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