Bischwiller
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La Laub, former town hall, now a museum
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| Country | France | |
| Region | Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
| Canton | Bischwiller | |
| Intercommunality | CA Haguenau | |
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| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Jean-Lucien Netzer[1] | |
| Area1 | 17.25 km2 (6.66 sq mi) | |
| Population (Jan. 2018)2 | Lua error in Module:Wd at line 405: invalid escape sequence near '"^'. | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 67046 / 67240 | |
| Elevation | 123–147 m (404–482 ft) | |
| 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. | ||
Bischwiller (French pronunciation: [biʃvilɛʁ] (
listen); German: Bischweiler; Alemannic German: Bíschwiller )[lower-alpha 1] is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France,[3] just west of the river Moder.
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Geography
The city is 7.8 kilometers (4.8 mi) southeast of Haguenau, 8 kilometers (5.0 mi) west-northwest of the German border and the Rhine (Rhin), and lies 22 kilometers (14 mi) north-northeast of Strasbourg.
The Moder, a Rhine tributary, flows across the town. Among the other streams which cross the area can be cited the following tributaries of the Moder: the Rothbaechel, the Erlengraben and the Waschgraben. The last one is formed by the confluence of two smaller streams named Weihergraben and Schnuchgraben.
Population
Due to its large Turkish minority, Bischwiller has been pejoratively dubbed "Turcwiller" or "Bischtanbul".[4]
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Culture
Personalities
- Henri Baumer, master carpenter
- Claude Vigée, poet
- Jacob Kirkman and Abraham Kirkman, harpsichord makers
- Jean Daum, glassware manufacturer
- Lucien Muller, footballer
- Otto Meißner, German politician
- Christian Goodnight (born Christian Gutknecht) is a direct-line ancestor of former U.S. President Barack Obama.[7][8][9][10]
Photo gallery
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Ancient timber-framed pharmacy
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Saint-Augustin church
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Bischwiller town hall
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Protestant temple: tombstone of John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (died in 1604) tombstone
See also
Notes
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bischwiller. |
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- ↑ Rapp 1823, pp. 365–366.
- ↑ INSEE commune file
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- ↑ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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- ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung 24 juillet 2008, Die Zeit of the same day, and Zeitmagazin Leben 24.7.2008, N.31, p.14-15 (the article in the Zeitmagazin contains a complete genealogy of Barack Obama)
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