Urbès

Urbès (German Urbis ) is a French commune with 435 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). The municipality is a member of the Vallée de Saint-Amarin municipality and belongs to the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park .

geography

The place is 450 m above sea level on the European route 512 from Remiremont to Mulhouse , east of the Col de Bussang , which is located in the municipality.

The village appears in documents from 1192 under the name Urbeis . Until the revolution it was part of the Mollau community .

Copper was mined here from the 16th to the 18th century, and the textile industry then played an important role in the 19th century.

In 1938, the project begun in 1932 to create a railway tunnel over eight kilometers long through the Vosges Mountains failed . In 1944, a subcamp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp was operated there for 2,000 forced laborers to manufacture aircraft engines for Daimler-Benz .

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007	2017
Residents	511	562	541	493	502	486	480	435

St. Wendelin Church from 1847

town hall

Gertrud Wolle (1891–1952), German actress

Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 1071-1072.

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