Munchhouse

Munchhouse
region	Grand Est
Department	Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement	Colmar-Ribeauvillé
Canton	Ensisheim
Community association	Pays Rhin-Brisach
Coordinates	47 ° 52 ' N , 7 ° 27' E Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ' N , 7 ° 27' E
height	214-227 m
surface	24.05 km 2
Residents	1,519 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	63 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	68740
INSEE code	68225
	; Mairie Munchhouse

Munchhouse (German Münchhausen ) is a French commune with 1519 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). She is a member of the Essor du Rhin municipal association .

geography

The municipality of Munchhouse is located on the northern edge of the Harthwald , about 15 kilometers northeast of Mulhouse and nine kilometers west of the Rhine , which forms the border with Germany. The old northern section of the Rhine-Rhône Canal runs immediately to the west of the village .

history

From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Munchhouse 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	2016
Residents	849	802	818	903	937	1216	1429	1569	1547

Attractions

Sainte-Agathe Church
Chapel Reine-du-Monde ([Maria], Queen of the World)

Sainte-Agathe Church
Chapel queen of the world

Administration union

Munchhouse is a member of the cross- border local special purpose association Mittelhardt-Oberrhein , which promotes cross-border communal cooperation between municipalities in Alsace and Baden on the basis of the Karlsruhe Convention .

literature

Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 364-3365.

Individual evidence

Web links

Commons : Munchhouse - collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Gebweiler district

[2] ttp://www.gemeinde-eschbach.de/wirtschaftsstandort/glct_goez.php