Oderen

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Oderen
Oderen coat of arms
Oderen (France)
Oderen
region Grand Est
Department Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement Thann-Guebwiller
Canton Cernay
Community association Vallée de Saint-Amarin
Coordinates 47 ° 55 '  N , 6 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '  N , 6 ° 59'  E
height 445-1,264 m
surface 19.12 km 2
Residents 1,268 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 66 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 68830
INSEE code

View of the Thur Valley in Oderen

Oderen (German Odern ) is a French commune with 1268 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 Thann-Guebwiller , the canton of Cernay and the Vallée de Saint-Amarin municipality .

geography

The municipality in the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park is located in the valley of the Upper Thur , a few kilometers from the 1200 m high Drumont on the Vosges ridge . The 884 m high Col d'Oderen named after the place leads above Kruth over the ridge to Ventron in Lorraine .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2017
Residents 1182 1254 1241 1331 1340 1318 1320 1268

Attractions

  • St. Nikolaus mountain church with a Gothic bell tower from 1771, built on a rocky promontory
  • Maria Hilf pilgrimage chapel ( Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours ) from 1893
Mairie Oderen

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 1058-1061.

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