Murbach
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Thann-Guebwiller | |
| Canton | Guebwiller | |
| Community association | Region of Guebwiller | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 55 ' N , 7 ° 9' E | |
| height | 396-1,420 m | |
| surface | 6.66 km 2 | |
| Residents | 159 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 24 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68530 | |
| INSEE code | 68229 | |
 Mairie Murbach |
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Murbach is a French commune with 159 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 Communauté de communes de la Région de Guebwiller .
geography
The municipality is located at the foot of the Grand Ballon (Großer Belchen) in the South Vosges and is part of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park . The next neighboring municipality is Buhl .
The place Murbach with the rest of its Romanesque monastery church is a station on the Romanesque Road of Alsace.
history
St. Pirmin , a missionary , founded a Benedictine abbey in 728 , where the village of Murbach later came into being. Of the former monastery church from the 12th century, only the choir with two side choirs, two towers and the transept remains today . According to the construction schools of Hirsau Abbey and Cluny Abbey , the choir has a flat end and no apse . The mighty nave was demolished in 1738 to make way for a new baroque building, which was never started. A statue is dedicated to St. Pirmin .
From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Murbach 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
| 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
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| 271 | 176 | 130 | 90 | 89 | 116 | 136 | 136 | 159 |
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 518-522.
