Mittelwihr
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Colmar-Ribeauvillé | |
| Canton | Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines | |
| Community association | Pays de Ribeauvillé | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 9 ' N , 7 ° 19' E | |
| height | 196-403 m | |
| surface | 2.42 km 2 | |
| Residents | 832 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 344 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68630 | |
| INSEE code | 68209 | |
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Mittelwihr (German Mittelweier ) is a French commune in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ) with 832 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé and the canton of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines and is a member of the Pays de Ribeauvillé municipality .
geography
The place is located at an altitude of 220 m in the western Upper Rhine Plain , about eight kilometers north of Colmar at the foot of the Vosges . The municipality is part of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park .
history
The first historical mention of this village comes from the year 974. Mittelwihr was part of the possession of Horbourg-Riquewihr from 1324 onwards. From 1534 until the French Revolution of 1789, Mittelwihr was owned by the Counts of Württemberg-Montbéliard .
From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Mittelwihr belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the district of Rappoltsweiler in the district of Upper Alsace .
During the Second World War , Mittelwihr was badly damaged by bombing in December 1944 during the fighting in the " Kesselschlacht von Kolmar " (Poche de Colmar) - the last battle of the Second World War on French territory.
Population development
| year | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 690 | 672 | 688 | 658 | 622 | 732 | 823 | 780 | 832 |
Economy and Infrastructure
The original industry was viticulture, and the abbeys of Murbach , Saint Hippolyte-Lièpvre and Ebersmunster had their vineyards here. Viticulture still plays a decisive economic role today . The wine village is on the Alsace Wine Route . The Mandelberg single vineyard is one of the Alsace Grand Cru vineyards.
Personalities
- Friedrich Paul Greiner (* 1871), member of the state parliament and president of the Alsatian winegrowers' association
See also
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , p. 686.
