Old communes of Haut-Rhin
This page recalls all the old communes of the Département of Haut-Rhin which existed since the French revolution, as well as creations and the official modifications of name.
The list does not contain the simple modifications of the territory of a commune (passage of a hamlet of a commune with another, for example).
Information before 1943 can be incomplete.
Fusion
*: creation of a new commune
1975
- Moos > Mooslargue *
- Niederlarg > Mooslargue *
1973
- Altenbach > Goldbach-Altenbach *
- Goldbach > Goldbach-Altenbach *
- Horbourg > Horbourg-Wihr *
- Lutran > Valdieu-Lutran *
- Valdieu > Valdieu-Lutran *
- Wihr-in-Plain > Horbourg-Wihr *
1972
- Brinighoffen > Saint-Bernard *
- Enschingen > Saint-Bernard *
- Means-Muespach > Muespach *
- Muespach-le-Bas > Muespach *
- Ueberkumen > Balschwiller
1953
- Bourgfelden > Saint-Louis
1947
1914
1830
- the Roadway > Blotzheim, Bartenheim and Kembs
1806
- Small-Lièpvre > Lièpvre
Before 1806
- Echery > Holy-Marie-with-Mines
- Fertru > Holy-Marie-with-Mines
- Saint-Blaise > Holy-Marie-with-Mines
Between 1790 and 1794
- Bergholtzzell > Bergholtz - (common restored in 1801)
- Bourgfelden > Hégenheim - (common restored in 1797)
- Houpach > Masevaux
- Jungholtz > Rimbach-près-Guebwiller and the Soultz-High-Rhine - (common restored in 1880)
- Linthal > Lautenbach - (common restored in 1801)
- Neuhausen > Goldbach
- Saint-Blaise > Bettlach
- Saint-Leger > Manspach
- Schoenensteinbach > Wittenheim
- Stecken > Masevaux
- Steinbach > Cernay - (common restored in 1801)
- Vogelbach > Saint-Amarin
- Werscholtz > Saint-Amarin
- Wickerschwihr > Holtzwihr - (common restored in 1837)
Between 1790 and 1792
- Hettenschlag > Weckolsheim - (common restored in 1793)
Creation
1928
- Bourtzwiller by dismemberment of the commune of Illzach
1908
1880
- Re-establishment of Jungholtz starting from Rimbach-près-Guebwiller and of the Soultz-High-Rhine
1837
- Re-establishment of Wickerschwihr starting from Holtzwihr
1832
- Wuenheim by dismemberment of the commune of the Soultz-High-Rhine
1801
- Re-establishment of Bergholtzzell starting from Bergholtz
- Re-establishment of Linthal starting from Lautenbach
- Re-establishment of Steinbach starting from Cernay
1797
- Re-establishment of Bourgfelden starting from Hégenheim
1793
- Re-establishment of Hettenschlag starting from Weckolsheim
Modification of official name
1999
- Bilzheim > Biltzheim
1997
- Widensohlen > Widensolen
1996
- Voegtlinshofen > Voegtlinshoffen
1989
- Orschwir > Orschwihr
1938
- Bitschwiller > Bitschwiller-lès-Thann
1933
- Catch > the Catch
1926
- Willer-Thann > the Willer-on-Thur
1924
- Nidermorschwiller > Morschwiller-le-Bas
- Nidermuespach > Muespach-le-Bas
- Obermuespach > Muespach-le-Haut
- Willer > Willer-Thann
1871
- Munckhausen > Munchhouse
1848
- Mulhausen > Mulhouse
1814
- Bourglibre > Saint-Louis
Date unknown, after 1800
- Neudorff > Village-Nine
1800
- Large-Huningue > Neudorff
Sources
- charts of Cassini, database on the history of the common Frenchwomen
- CommunesGenWeb, history of the communes to the service of the genealogy
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