Roggenhouse

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Roggenhouse
Roggenhouse coat of arms
Roggenhouse (France)
Roggenhouse
region Grand Est
Department Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement Colmar-Ribeauvillé
Canton Ensisheim
Community association Pays Rhin-Brisach
Coordinates 47 ° 53 '  N , 7 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '  N , 7 ° 28'  E
height 213-219 m
surface 6.45 km 2
Residents 469 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 73 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 68740
INSEE code

Town Hall (Mairie)

Roggenhouse (German Roggenhausen ) is a French commune with 469 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Upper Rhine Valley in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). The inhabitants call themselves les Roggenhousiens .

geography

The community of Roggenhouse is located on the Rhine-Rhône Canal , about 20 kilometers northeast of Mulhouse on the edge of the Harthwald forest .

Neighboring communities of Roggenhouse are Fessenheim in the northeast, Blodelsheim in the east, Rumersheim-le-Haut in the southeast, Munchhouse in the south and Hirtzfelden in the northwest.

history

From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Roggenhouse 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 2016
212 186 205 231 317 377 396 462 470

Administration union

Roggenhouse is a member of the cross- border local association Mittelhardt-Oberrhein , which promotes cross-border communal cooperation between municipalities in Alsace and Baden on the basis of the Karlsruhe Convention .

Attractions

  • Saint-Wendelin Church, built in 1704
  • Peace Chapel
St. Wendelin Church
Peace Chapel

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , p. 381.

Individual evidence

  1. Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Gebweiler district
  2. http://www.gemeinde-eschbach.de/wirtschaftsstandort/glct_goez.php

Web links

Commons : Roggenhouse  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files