Soppe-le-Haut

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Soppe-le-Haut
Coat of arms of Soppe-le-Haut
Soppe-le-Haut (France)
Soppe-le-Haut
local community Le Haut Soultzbach
region Grand Est
Department Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement Thann-Guebwiller
Coordinates 47 ° 44 '  N , 7 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 44 '  N , 7 ° 4'  E
Post Code 68780
Former INSEE code 68314
Incorporation January 1, 2016
status Commune déléguée

former Mairie von Soppe-le-Haut

Soppe-le-Haut (German Obersulzbach ) is a former French commune with 554 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belonged to the Arrondissement Thann-Guebwiller and the community association Vallée de la Doller et du Soultzbach .

With effect from January 1, 2016, the former municipalities of Soppe-le-Haut and Mortzwiller were merged into a commune nouvelle called Le Haut Soultzbach .

geography

Soppe-le-Haut is located in the Soultzbachtal in the southeastern Vosges , about 20 kilometers west of Mulhouse and 20 kilometers northeast of Belfort . In the southwest, Soppe-le-Haut borders on the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region , which also forms the Rhine-Rhône watershed here.

history

The originally German name and the river of the same name mean something like salty brook . It is assumed that there was already a settlement near a fort on the site of the village in Gallo-Roman times, which was on the Roman road from Mandeure to Artzenheim . Around the year 1100 the name of the place appears for the first time with the foundation of the priory of St. Morand in Altkirch and St. Nikolaus in Rougemont .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2013
Residents 258 259 257 336 442 517 571 567
Source: Cassini

Attractions

See also: List of the Monuments historiques in Le Haut Soultzbach

The Church of St. Margarethen ( Église Sainte-Marguerite ) dates from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century. It was built in place of a previous building while retaining the tower from 1469. Since 1995 the church has been classified as a monument historique .

St. Margarethen, south side
St. Margarethen, east side

Personalities

Transport links

The D 48 road from Lauw to Soppe-le-Bas leads through the village of Soppe-le-Haut . The D 483 trunk road and the A 36 autoroute run parallel to the southwest of the village (both from Belfort to Mulhouse ). The station in Sentheim , three kilometers north of Soppe-le-Haut, is the terminus of the Train Thur Doller Alsace museum railway line , which is mainly operated by steam locomotives from Cernay . In Cernay there is a connection to the Mulhouse – Vallée de la Thur tram-train .

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 747-748.

supporting documents

  1. Soppe-le-Haut on ot-masevaux-doller.fr. (doc; 1.9 MB) Retrieved May 5, 2011 (French).
  2. Soppe-le-Haut on cassini.ehess.fr
  3. ^ Entry in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture. Retrieved May 5, 2011 (French).

Web links

Commons : Soppe-le-Haut  - Collection of images