Bischwiller

Commune in Grand Est, France

Bischwiller

Bìschweiler

Commune

La Laub, former town hall, now a museum

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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

| 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.

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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.

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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]

* Ancient timber-framed pharmacy

* Saint-Augustin church

* Bischwiller town hall

* 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]

1. ^ Also spelt Bishweiller in some older sources.[3]

1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. ^ Rapp 1823, pp. 365–366.
4. ^ INSEE commune file
5. ^ Gasparini, William; Koebel, Michel (2017). "Le football communautaire : enquête dans les clubs alsaciens, France". Sciences de la société. 101 (101): 144–167. doi:10.4000/sds.6469.
6. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Bischwiller, EHESS (in French).
7. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
8. ^ Forek, Scott (September 9, 2007). "Christian Gutnecht-Goodnight: 'The dark and bloody ground'". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on March 4, 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2009.
9. ^ 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)
10. ^ "Obama's forefathers include Swiss immigrant: archivist". Agence France-Presse. September 24, 2008.
11. ^ Harneis, Robert (January 20, 2009). "Goodnight Mr. President". French News. Archived from the original on January 31, 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2009.

## References[edit]

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

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