Murbach

Murbach is a common French, located in the department of the Haut-Rhin and the area Alsace.

Geography

History

A Benedictine abbey is founded by Saint Pirmin in 728, in a valley with the foot of the Grand Balloon. Recognized by the charter of Widergern, bishop of Strasbourg, and confirmed by Thierry IV in 728, it owes its radiation with the Count Eberhard, which made gift of the neighbouring grounds and thereafter of a multitude of other goods.

The current abbey is a masterpiece of Romance art .

Administration

Demography

  • provisional population for 2006: 136

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of Haut-Rhin

External bonds

  • Murbach on the site of the national geographical Institute

  • Murbach on the site of INSEE
  • Murbach on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Murbach on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Murbach on Mapquest
  • Visit in photographs of the abbey of Murbach

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