Holy-Cross-in-Plain

Holy-Cross-in-Plain is a common French, located close to Colmar in the department of the Haut-Rhin and the area Alsace

Geography

History

The city is resulting from a Abbaye women, founded towards 1045 by the count Hugo d' Eguisheim in the south of its stronghold, Woffenheim. In 1049, his/her son, Bruno, become the pope Leon IX, devotes to it the first abbess and fact gift in particular of pieces of the Holy-Cross (from where its name).

Administration

Demography

municipal population in 2003: 2.408

provisional population for 2004: 2.362

municipal population in 2005: 2554

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Georges Stoffel, born in 1817 with Holy-Cross-in-Plain. Initially employed with the prefecture of perceiving Colmar then in 1845 in Dürlingsdorf and 1856 in Habsheim. It made research on the history of Alsace.

Luc Hueber (1888-1974), painter born with Holy-Cross-in-Plain.

Twinning

See too

Common of Haut-Rhin

External bonds

Holy-Cross-in-Plain on the site of the national geographical Institute
Holy-Cross-in-Plain on the site of INSEE
Holy-Cross-in-Plain on the site of Quid
Localization of Holy-Cross-in-Plain on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Holy-Cross-in-Plain on Mapquest

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