Oberentzen

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Oberentzen
Coat of arms of Oberentzen
Oberentzen (France)
Oberentzen
region Grand Est
Department Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement Thann-Guebwiller
Canton Ensisheim
Community association Center du Haut-Rhin
Coordinates 47 ° 57 '  N , 7 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 57 '  N , 7 ° 23'  E
height 201-211 m
surface 8.81 km 2
Residents 637 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 72 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 68127
INSEE code

Mairie

Oberentzen (German Oberenzen ) is a French commune with 637 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller and the canton of Ensisheim .

geography

The municipality of Oberentzen is located on the Ill , about ten kilometers north of Ensisheim and 16 kilometers south of Colmar . In the west, the municipality extends to the Alte Thur , in the north the built-up area merges seamlessly into the municipality of Niederentzen . In the east of the municipality is part of the air force base " Base aérienne 132 Colmar-Meyenheim ", which was closed in July 2010 and is now an army barracks. The nearby A 35 autoroute with connection at Meyenheim connects the town to the south with Mulhouse and Basel and to the north with Colmar and Strasbourg .

history

Until the 13th century, the places Nieder- and Oberentzen still formed a single municipality. Even today, the development of the place on the northern boundary of the municipality forms a unit with that of Niederentzen .

The Saint-Nicolas church from 1744 replaced an earlier church from 1303. It is equipped with an organ by the organ builder Louis Dubois (* 1731 or 1726, † 23 February 1766) from 1759 with the original organ prospectus.

St. Nicholas Church
Interior of the church
Dubois organ in the church

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2017
Residents 408 428 455 509 536 511 525 637

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 373-374.

Web links

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