Urbès

Urbès (in Alsatian Onrvéss ) is a common French, located in the department of the Haut-Rhin and the area Alsace.

Geography

Last Alsatian village before the Collar of Bussang, Urbès occupies a boxed small valley of glacial origin.

History

Quoted under the name of Urbeis since 1192, the locality belonged to the commune of Mollau until the Revolution. Mines of Cuivre were worked there of XVIe at the XVIIIe century, then textile industry was established to with it with XIXe.

The project of a railway Tunnel having to cross the Massif of the Vosges was carried out on more than 4 km, but abandoned in 1938. This outline was arranged by the Nazis to be used as drinkable water reserve but also to become an appendix of the camp of Dachau in 1944.

Inheritance

See d' Urbès, Peaty of 40 ha.
Church built in 1847 and organ going back to 1850.

Administration

Demography

provisional population for 2004: 473

Personalities related to the commune

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