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Coordinates: 47°54′30″N 7°12′39″E / 47.9083°N 7.2108°E / 47.9083; 7.2108Coordinates: 47°54′30″N 7°12′39″E / 47.9083°N 7.2108°E / 47.9083; 7.2108{{#coordinates:47.9083|7.2108|type:city(11609)_region:FR||||||
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France</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Region</th><td>
Alsace</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Department</th><td>
Haut-Rhin</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Arrondissement</th><td>
Guebwiller</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Canton</th><td>
Guebwiller</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Intercommunality</th><td>
Communauté de communes de la région de Guebwiller</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" style="text-align:center;text-align:left">Government</th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left"> • Mayor (2008–2014) </th><td>
Denis Rebmann</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Area1</th><td>
9.68 km2 (3.74 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Population (2006)2</th><td>
11,609</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left"> • Density</th><td>
1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left">INSEE/Postal code</th><td class="adr">
68112 / 68500</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Elevation</th><td>
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.</td></tr></table>
Guebwiller (French: Guebwiller, Template:IPA-fr; Alsatian: Gàwiller [ˈkaːviləʁ]; German: Gebweiler) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
It is situated Script error: No such module "convert". northwest of Mulhouse at the foot of the Vosges mountains. The Ballon de Guebwiller, the highest point in the Vosges, lies Script error: No such module "convert". to the west of the town.
In 2006, Guebwiller had a total population of 11,609[1] and its metropolitan area a population of 31,868.[2]
People
Guebwiller was the birthplace of the physicist and Nobel laureate Alfred Kastler; of the Schlumberger brothers; of the ceramicist Théodore Deck; of Nicholas Niklaus Riggenbach, engineer, builder of steam locomotives and rack railways like the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahnen in the Swiss Alps; and of composer Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin.
Twin towns
Guebwiller is twinned with:
Points of interest
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