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Coordinates: 47°53′10″N 7°13′47″E / 47.886°N 7.2297°E / 47.886; 7.2297Coordinates: 47°53′10″N 7°13′47″E / 47.886°N 7.2297°E / 47.886; 7.2297{{#coordinates:47.886|7.2297|type:city(7311)_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>
Soultz-Haut-Rhin</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Intercommunality</th><td>
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>
Thomas Birgaentzlé</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Area1</th><td>
29.56 km2 (11.41 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left">Population (2009)2</th><td>
7,311</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left"> • Density</th><td>
250/km2 (640/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" style="text-align:left">INSEE/Postal code</th><td class="adr">
68315 / 68360</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>
Soultz-Haut-Rhin (German: Sulz/Oberelsaß) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département in Alsace in north-eastern France.
Its inhabitants are called Soultziens (male) or Soultziennes (female).
Geography
The town of Soultz-Haut-Rhin has an enclave located northeast of Goldbach-Altenbach.
The town of Soultz was built around a salted water source from which originates its name.
History
The origins of Soultz go back to the 7th century.
667 : the written name of Sulza (salted source) is mentioned in a donation from Adalrich, Duke of Alsace, father of Saint Odile, of the bann of Soultz to the convent of Ebersmunster.
Demography
- 1962 : 4750
- 1968 : 4910
- 1975 : 5689
- 1982 : 5696
- 1990 : 5867
- 1999 : 6640
- 2006 : 7184
Places of interest
Soultz has houses from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
- The Church Saint-Mauritius, l'église Saint-Maurice (1270–1489)
- Château de Buchenek is a 13th-century castle, now a museum
- La Nef des Jouets (The Toys Vessel, museum of toys)
People
- Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, who married Catherine Gontcharoff, eldest sister of Alexander Pushkin's wife, and killed Pushkin in a duel.
- Auguste-César West (1810–1880), prefect of Haut-Rhin from 1848 to 1850 then prefect of Bas-Rhin until 1855 and of Haute-Garonne until 1859.
- Bernard Genghini, footballer, born in 1958 in Soultz
- Pierre Villon (1901–1980), whose real name was Pierre Ginsburger, was a French political figure who took part in the Resistance.
- Katia Krafft, volcanologist, born in 1942 in Soultz. Wife of the volcanologist Maurice Krafft. Both of them were carried off in 1991 by a pyroclastical flow on the sides of the Mount Unzen (Japan).
See also
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