Soultz-Haut-Rhin
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Soultz-Haut-Rhin (Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Langx) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département in Grand Est in north-eastern France.[2]
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.
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Demography
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Places of interest
Soultz has houses from the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
- The Church of Saint-Maurice is a Gothic building (1270–1489)
- Château de Buchenek is a 13th-century castle, now a museum
- La Nef des Jouets (The Toys Vessel, museum of toys)
- The 1860 town hall is a Renaissance Revival building
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 Mount Unzen (Japan).
See also
References
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- ↑ Commune de Soultz-Haut-Rhin (68315), INSEE
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