Guebwiller

Guebwiller (German: Gebweiler ) is a common French, located in the department of the Haut-Rhin and the area Alsace.

The German name of the city which is not official is Gebweiler . Its inhabitants is called Guebwillerois and Guebwilleroises.

Geography

Guebwiller is located at 23 km in the North-West of Mulhouse, at 18 km in the North-East of Thann and at 25 km in the south-west of Colmar to the foot of the Vosges and the entry of the valley of the Florival (or valley of the Lauch: name of the river which crosses it). The Grand Balloon, culminating point of the Vosgean massive, is to 8 km as the crow flies in the west of the city, which commonly makes name it balloon of Guebwiller .

Localities and variations

the Cross of Mission : located on the heights of its vineyard (Southern slope), at the entry of the valley of the Florival, it throws its benevolent glance on the entry of the valley.
the Military Cemetery (Northern Slope): there rest French and German soldiers (war 14/18 and 39/45)
Parc of the Marseillaise (Which occurred of the Alpine hunters): Created at the request of Aime GROS-SCHLUMBERGER, between 1897 and 1899, by the Parisian landscape gardener Edouard Andre, one finds there exotic compositions floral and several gasolines. The park is still decorated of a Renaissance well and of a large fountain, a bandstand and a bench in arc of circle, that copies where sat down Sarah Bernhardt in Théodora.

Communes bordering

Bergholtz, Bergholtz-Zell, Buhl, Rimbach-près-Guebwiller, Issenheim, Jungholtz and the Soultz-High-Rhine

History

The city is mentioned for the first time in a deed of gift in favor of the Abbaye of Murbach, in 774, in the shape of villa GEBUNVILLARE . It is then about a simple agricultural domain. The medieval city will take form during the 12th century around the Saint-Leger church and of the castle of Burgstall. The wall of enclosure is set up between 1270 and 1287. Guebwiller, capital of the principality of Murbach, prosperous and count 1350 inhabitants in 1394.

With the passing of years the city knows many historical events:

attempt at attack of the Flayers in February 1445, after having devastated the country. But Guebwiller was protected by its strengthened enclosure. The enemies wanted to use the trick. The monitoring being slackened, they placed their scales on the wall, but Guebwilléroise, Brigitte Schick, took care in secrecy and gave alarm. The attackers, taken of panic by the miraculous appearance of that whom they took for the Virgin Mary, gave up their scales. Those were preserved in the Saint-Leger church, in homage to the Virgin who had protected the city.
revolt of the inhabitants against the authority of the princes abbots of Murbach and their reprisals.
insurrection of the Bumpkins in 1525, put at bag of the city by the Swedish at the time of the war 30 year old…
Guebwiller becomes French in 1648, following the ratification of the treaty of Munster. In 1657 he remains nothing any more but 176 inhabitants with Guebwiller.
Between 1761 and 1764 takes place the Sécularisation chapter of Murbach which settles downtown, in the castle of Neuenbourg. The domination of the abbey of Murbach ends to the French revolution.
At the dawn of the 19th century appears the first textile companies. It is the beginning of the great epopee of textile industry in the capital of the Florival which becomes the second textile site of Alsace after Mulhouse. One manufactures there combed fabrics, ribbon, Indian . One spins there Laine and Coton.
May 1st 1864: first contest gymnic of France.
In 1905, Guebwiller counts 13294 inhabitants.
During the Second world war, Guebwillerois undergo the fate of all theLorraine ones (the incorporation of force, German occupation…). They are released the February 4th 1945 by a group of armoured tanks of the 4 {{E}} regiment of spahis Moroccan.
local industry makes new great strides in the years 1946 - 1953 then starts an irremediable decline. Currently, only company NSC (Nicolas Schlumberger and Co) perpetuate this heritage by the construction of machines specialized for the spinning mill of wool and long fibers.

Administration

|- | align=right| 1977 || Charles Haby || - |- | align=right| March 2001 || Daniel Weber | UMP | chair community of communes
of the area of Guebwiller |}

Demography

Religious heritage

Church Saint-Leger (XIIe - XIIIe S.), Rhenish late Romance style
Church and cloister of Dominican, Gothic style (today center polymusical)
Church Notre-Dame (1762-1785)

Civil inheritance

Town hall, Gothic style blazing (1514)

Ruins of the Castle of Hugstein ( with horse on the commune of Buhl ); these ruins have just been cleared of undergrowth

Ruines of the castle of Burgstall (a long time one thought it lost and only of rare writings mentioned it. In the Sixties part of the ruins fûrent discovered during the construction of a mini-market)

Museums

Museum of Florival (important collection of the ceramist Theodore Deck)

presence of the departmental center of genealogy beside the church St Leger

Personalities related to the commune

François Joseph Rudler (1757-1837), member of the directory of the Department of Haut-Rhin, knight of the Legion of honor since 1804, was high with the row of Baron d' Empire in 1810.
Theodore Deck (1823-1891), ceramist, Guebwiller, birthplace of Theodore Deck currently has the most important collection of works of this artist who renovated the art of ceramics at the 19th century.
Andreas Bauer (1866-1900) monk franciscain missionary and martyr in China.
Alfred Kastler (1902-1984) physicist, Nobel Prize 1966
Charles Haby, mayor of the commune of 1977 to 2001

Education

general-purpose Theodore Deck street of the Canons
General high school and technological College Alfred Kastler street of Luspel
hotel college Storck

See too

Common of Haut-Rhin

External bonds

Official site of the town of Guebwiller
Official site of the Community of Communes of the Area of Guebwiller
Tourist offices of the valley of Florival (Guebwiller, the Soultz-High-Rhine and surroundings)
departmental Center of history of the families of Haut-Rhin

Caléo distribution gas and water with Guebwiller

Guebwiller on the site of the national geographical Institute
Guebwiller on the site of INSEE
Guebwiller on the site of Quid
Localization of Guebwiller on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Guebwiller on Mapquest
Visit in photographs of Guebwiller
Site of the Catholic parishes of Guebwiller

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