Villé

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Villé
Coat of arms of Villé
Villé (France)
Villé
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Sélestat-Erstein
Canton Dirty
Community association Vallée de Villé
Coordinates 48 ° 21 ′  N , 7 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′  N , 7 ° 18 ′  E
height 253-470 m
surface 2.84 km 2
Residents 1,834 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 646 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 67220
INSEE code

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Villé (German hamlet , Alsatian Willer ) is a French commune with 1,834 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Arrondissement Sélestat-Erstein and the Canton of Mutzig .

geography

Villé is located on Giessen in the Vosges , about 15 kilometers northwest of Sélestat . The valley of Giessen, which comes from the southwest and turns to the southeast, widens into a basin in the Villé area. The valley of the Ruisseau du Giessen de Steige opens to the northwest, the valley of the Erlenbach to the north and the Luttenbach valley to the south .

Neighboring communities of Villé are Albé in the northeast, Triembach-au-Val in the east, Neuve-Église in the southeast, Breitenau and Bassemberg in the southwest and Saint-Martin in the northwest.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2017
Residents 1326 1422 1530 1616 1550 1743 1736 1834

Attractions

  • Church of the Assumption ( Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption )
  • Protestant church
  • Synagogue , built in 1904

Personalities

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1521-1525.

Web links

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