Soultz-Haut-Rhin

Soultz-Haut-Rhin
Soultz-Haut-Rhin
	Commune
	The church in Soultz
	; Coat of arms
	; Coat of arms
	Soultz-Haut-Rhin Location within Grand Est region Soultz-Haut-Rhin
	Coordinates: 47°53′10″N 7°13′47″E / 47.886°N 7.2297°ECoordinates: 47°53′10″N 7°13′47″E / 47.886°N 7.2297°E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement	Thann-Guebwiller
Canton	Guebwiller
Intercommunality	Région de Guebwiller
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Thomas Birgaentzlé
Area1	29.56 km2 (11.41 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	7,311
• Density	250/km2 (640/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	68315 /68360
Elevation	239–1,421 m (784–4,662 ft) ; (avg. 270 m or 890 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Soultz-Haut-Rhin (German: Sulz/Oberelsaß) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Its inhabitants are called Soultziens (male) or Soultziennes (female).

Geography

The town of Soultz-Haut-Rhin has an enclave located northeast of Goldbach-Altenbach.

The town of Soultz was built around a salted water source from which originates its name.

History

The origins of Soultz go back to the 7th century.

667 : the written name of Sulza (salted source) is mentioned in a donation from Adalrich, Duke of Alsace, father of Saint Odile, of the bann of Soultz to the convent of Ebersmunster.

Demography

1962 : 4750
1968 : 4910
1975 : 5689
1982 : 5696
1990 : 5867
1999 : 6640
2006 : 7184

Places of interest

Soultz has houses from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

The Church Saint-Mauritius, l'église Saint-Maurice (1270–1489)
Château de Buchenek is a 13th-century castle, now a museum
La Nef des Jouets (The Toys Vessel, museum of toys)

Château de Buchenek (historical museum)

People

Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, who married Catherine Gontcharoff, eldest sister of Alexander Pushkin's wife, and killed Pushkin in a duel.
Auguste-César West (1810–1880), prefect of Haut-Rhin from 1848 to 1850 then prefect of Bas-Rhin until 1855 and of Haute-Garonne until 1859.
Bernard Genghini, footballer, born in 1958 in Soultz
Pierre Villon (1901–1980), whose real name was Pierre Ginsburger, was a French political figure who took part in the Resistance.
Katia Krafft, volcanologist, born in 1942 in Soultz. Wife of the volcanologist Maurice Krafft. Both of them were carried off in 1991 by a pyroclastical flow on the sides of the Mount Unzen (Japan).

References

INSEE

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