Bischwiller

Bischwiller Bìschweiler
Commune
La Laub, former town hall, now a museum
Coat of arms
Location of Bischwiller
Bischwiller Show map of France Bischwiller Show map of Grand Est
Coordinates: 48°46′00″N 7°51′27″E / 48.7667°N 7.857500°E / 48.7667; 7.857500
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton	Bischwiller
Intercommunality	CA Haguenau
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Lucien Netzer[1]
Area 1	17.25 km2 (6.66 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	12,435
• Density	720/km2 (1,900/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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.

Bischwiller (French pronunciation: [biʃvilɛʁ] ^ⓘ; German: Bischweiler; Alsatian: Bíschwiller)^[a] is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France,^[4] just west of the river Moder.

Geography[edit]

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[edit]

Due to its large Turkish minority, Bischwiller has been pejoratively dubbed "Turcwiller" or "Bischtanbul".^[5]

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 3,250 —     1800 3,449 +0.85% 1806 3,902 +2.08% 1821 4,806 +1.40% 1831 5,927 +2.12% 1836 5,854 −0.25% 1841 5,721 −0.46% 1846 6,260 +1.82% 1851 6,642 +1.19% 1856 7,676 +2.94% 1861 8,780 +2.72% 1866 9,911 +2.45% 1871 9,220 −1.44% 1875 7,102 −6.32% 1880 6,827 −0.79% 1885 6,815 −0.04% 1890 7,014 +0.58% 1895 7,304 +0.81%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1900 7,897 +1.57% 1905 8,279 +0.95% 1910 8,149 −0.32% 1921 7,210 −1.11% 1926 8,142 +2.46% 1931 8,059 −0.20% 1936 8,248 +0.46% 1946 7,581 −0.84% 1954 7,843 +0.43% 1962 8,198 +0.55% 1968 8,780 +1.15% 1975 9,653 +1.36% 1982 10,612 +1.36% 1990 10,969 +0.41% 1999 11,596 +0.62% 2007 12,659 +1.10% 2012 12,643 −0.03% 2017 12,538 −0.17%
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Source: EHESS[6] and INSEE (1968-2017)[7]

Culture[edit]

• Maison des Arts (Bischwiller)
• Musée de la Laub

Personalities[edit]

• 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.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Photo gallery[edit]

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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[edit]

• Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

• Rapp, comte Jean (1823), Memoirs of General Count Rapp: First Aide-de-camp to Napoleon, H. Colburn and Company

External links[edit]

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• Official website (in French)

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