Guebwiller
Template:Short description Template:Expand French
Script error: No such module "Settlement short description".Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".Expression error: Unexpected < operator.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".
Guebwiller (Script error: No such module "IPA".; Alsatian: Gàwiller Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Langx) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It was a sub-prefecture of the department until 2015.[2]
It is situated Script error: No such module "convert". northwest of Mulhouse at the foot of the Vosges mountains. The Ballon de Guebwiller, the highest point in the Vosges, lies Script error: No such module "convert". to the west of the town.
In 2018, Guebwiller had a population of 11,022 and its urban area had a population of 28,662.[3]
History
Guebweiler, as Gebweiler, is mentioned as early as 774. It belonged to the religious foundation of Murbach, and in 1759 the abbots chose it for their residence. In 1789, at the outbreak of the French Revolution, the monastic buildings were laid in ruins, and, though the archives were rescued and removed to Colmar, the library perished.[4]
Geography
Climate
Guebwiller has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Guebwiller is Template:Cvt. The average annual rainfall is Template:Cvt with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around Template:Cvt, and lowest in January, at around Template:Cvt. The highest temperature ever recorded in Guebwiller was Template:Cvt on 13 August 2003; the lowest temperature ever recorded was Template:Cvt on 20 December 2009. Script error: No such module "weather box".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Population
<templatestyles src="Module:Historical populations/styles.css"/>Script error: No such module "Historical populations".
People
Guebwiller was the birthplace of
- Émile Keller (1820-1909)
- Niklaus Riggenbach (1817-1899), engineer
- Théodore Deck (1823-1891), ceramist
- Gustave Schlumberger (1844-1929), historian, Byzantinist, numismatist
- Jean Schlumberger (1877-1968), publisher and writer
- Conrad Schlumberger (1878-1936), co-founder of Schlumberger
- Charles Hueber (1883-1943), politician
- Marcel Schlumberger (1884-1953), co-founder of Schlumberger
- Al Weill (1893-1969), boxing manager
- Alfred Kastler (1902-1984), physicist
- Émile Baas (1906-1984), essayist
- Eugène Ehrhart (1906-2000), mathematician
- Armand Walter (1908-1995)
- Robert Schilling (historian) (1913–2004),
- Katia Krafft (1942-1991), volcanologist
- Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin
Twin towns
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Guebwiller is twinned with:
Points of interest
- Romanesque and early gothic church, Église Saint-Léger
- Gothic former Dominican abbey Les Dominicains, now used as a cultural center.
- Early Renaissance townhall (Hôtel de ville)
- Neoclassical church Église Notre-Dame, the largest Neoclassical church in Alsace
- Musée Théodore Deck et des pays du Florival, the largest museum in Haut-Rhin outside Colmar and Mulhouse
- Parc de la Marseillaise
- Synagogue of Guebwiller
See also
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Décret n° 2014-1720 du 29 décembre 2014 portant suppression des arrondissements de Guebwiller et de Ribeauvillé (département du Haut-Rhin)
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Script error: No such module "template wrapper".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Official website Template:In lang
- Homepage of the Musée du Florival
- Wikipedia page for Église Notre Dame Template:In lang
- The Florivaliens homepage
Script error: No such module "Navbox".
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with broken file links
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Pages using infobox settlement with image map1 but not image map
- France articles requiring maintenance
- Communes of Haut-Rhin
- Haut-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia