Steinbrunn-le-Haut

Steinbrunn-le-Haut
region	Grand Est
Department	Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement	Mulhouse
Canton	Brunstatt
Community association	Saint-Louis agglomeration
Coordinates	47 ° 40 ′ N , 7 ° 21 ′ E Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ N , 7 ° 21 ′ E
height	267-404 m
surface	9.21 km 2
Residents	583 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	63 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	68390
INSEE code	68324
	; Mairie Steinbrunn-le-Haut

Steinbrunn-le-Haut (German Obersteinbrunn ) is a French commune with 583 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the arrondissement of Mulhouse , the canton of Brunstatt and the municipality of Saint-Louis Agglomération .

geography

The municipality of Steinbrunn-le-Haut is located in Sundgau , about twelve kilometers south of Mulhouse .

Of the 921 hectares that make up the municipality, around 600 are used for agriculture. Around 150 hectares are forested.

Neighboring communities of Steinbrunn-le-Haut are Steinbrunn-le-Bas in the northeast, Rantzwiller in the east, Wahlbach in the south, Obermorschwiller in the southwest, and Luemschwiller in the west and Zillisheim in the northwest.

history

From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Steinbrunn-le-Haut belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the district of Mulhouse in the district of Upper Alsace .

Population development

year	1910	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2017
Residents	650	397	435	421	491	528	539	590	583

Attractions

The church in Steinbrunn-le-Haut, with its asymmetrically arranged choir and nave, is dedicated to Saint Mauritius and Our Lady of the Scapular . The baroque furnishings of the church include stone figures on both sides of the side door and in the side altars, the main altar with a tabernacle from 1687, the winged altar from 1530 and a baptismal font dated 1626.

On the part of the cemetery adjacent to the south-east side of the church there is a small chapel with two grave slabs from the 16th century. One plate shows the eight coats of arms of the families Reinach , Krebs von Mülheim, Zorn von Bulach , Degelin von Wangen, Payer von Hagenwyl, Falkenstein, von Andlau and Pforr , another stone shows a crawling stag, the arms of the knight family von Hirtzbach , which from 1274 to 1477 is proven.

The sundial with the year 1866 on the southeast side of the nave is a special feature.

Some half-timbered houses from past centuries have been preserved.