Roppenheim

Roppenheim
region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton	Bischwiller
Community association	Pays Rhénan
Coordinates	48 ° 51 ' N , 8 ° 3' E Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ' N , 8 ° 3' E
height	113-119 m
surface	6.88 km 2
Residents	1,003 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	146 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	67480
INSEE code	67409
Website	http://www.roppenheim.fr/
	; Mairie Roppenheim

The French commune of Roppenheim is located in the Rhine valley in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It has 1003 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017). The place name has existed since 1207.

traffic

Half-timbered house in Roppenheim

The place is connected to the toll-free A35 car route and the Wörth – Strasbourg railway line .

The through road of the village is the D468. The department road D4 runs north of the village and connects it in the northwest with the A35 motorway and in the southeast with the Iffezheim dam . In Germany it will be continued as Bundesstraße 500 .

Population development

1910	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2005	2016
677	687	719	721	690	808	942	956	980

economy

Outlet Center

The outlet center "Roppenheim The Style Outlets" is located on Departementsstraße D4 . Its buildings, in which more than 100 shops are set up, are optically modeled on a traditional Alsatian half-timbered village. The facility was built on the model of the city of Obernai . In order to remain Alsatian in proper style, more than 300,000 paving stones were inserted into the ground from quarries in the Vosges. The factory sales center with over 27,000 m² of retail space, designed by the British real estate developer Freeport since 2001 , was finally built in 2010 by the Spanish operating company Neinver and the Dutch investor MAB Development and opened on April 25, 2012. The retail center offers jobs for around 700 employees on both sides of the border. The catchment area of the municipality lies on both sides of the Rhine . From the border regions of Alsace, Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate with the cities of Strasbourg , Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden and a potential of 8.4 million people, the operators expect two million visitors a year, two thirds of whom come from Germany and 80 % of sales should make. There was resistance to the planning along the Upper Rhine on both the German and French sides from almost all cities and trade associations. In 2002, the Karlsruhe Regional Council clearly rejected a location at Baden Airport . The project was also rejected in Alsace, but then the Supreme Administrative Court in Paris approved the settlement. In the long planning period, the inner-city retail trade on the Middle Upper Rhine was able to adapt to the competition.