Wettolsheim
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Colmar-Ribeauvillé | |
| Canton | Wintzenheim | |
| Community association | Colmar agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 3 ' N , 7 ° 18' E | |
| height | 188-688 m | |
| surface | 8.86 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,733 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 196 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68920 | |
| INSEE code | 68365 | |
 Mairie Wettolsheim |
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Wettolsheim is a French commune with 1733 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 Colmar-Ribeauvillé and the canton of Wintzenheim .
geography
The municipality of Wettolsheim is located on the eastern edge of the Vosges , only five kilometers southwest of the city center of Colmar . The municipality extends from the banks of the Lauch in the east over extensive vineyards to the wooded heights of the Vosges in the west and is part of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park .
Neighboring municipalities of Wettolsheim are Wintzenheim in the north-west and north, Colmar in the north-east, Sainte-Croix-en-Plaine in the south-east and Eguisheim in the south.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2014 |
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| Residents | 1296 | 1301 | 1558 | 1554 | 1616 | 1692 | 1705 | 1694 |
Attractions
- Grotte de Lourdes grandeur réelle : Archbishop François-Xavier Schoepfer (1843–1927), Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes from 1899 to 1927, had one in 1912 on the site of his birthplace, which was destroyed by fire on August 10, 1911 Build a copy of the Massabielle grotto in Lourdes, which corresponds to the original in shape and dimensions. The statue of the Virgin herself stands on a stone at the point in the Massabielle grotto where the Immaculate Conception appeared to St. Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 . The grotto is located in the center of the village and is still the setting for many religious ceremonies today.
- Châtelet des Hagueneck : Hageneck Castle was built at the end of the eleventh century on a rocky promontory at a height of 420 m in a valley above the village of Wettolsheim. It is owned by the community, which it bought in 1912 for 42,000 gold marks. The Donjon of the castle is accessible to hikers.
- Archaeological site Koenigsbreite : From the end of the 1980s Ricoh Industrie France planned to settle in Wettolsheim on the Koenigsbreite, a place that had long been known for archaeological finds during fieldwork or partial excavations by Pastor Sig and Abbot Glory. The exhumed remains date back more than five millennia: from the old Neolithic (around 5300 BC) to Roman times.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 1343-1350.
