Guebwiller
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Commune of Guebwiller St. Léger Church in Guebwiller |
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| Location | |
| Longitude | 07° 12' 39" E |
| Latitude | 47° 54' 30" N |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Alsace |
| Department | Haut-Rhin (sous-préfecture) |
| Arrondissement | Guebwiller |
| Canton | Guebwiller (chief town) |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes de la région de Guebwiller |
| Mayor | Daniel Weber (2001-2007) |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 254 m–620 m (avg. 300 m) |
| Land area¹ | 9.68 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
11,525 |
| - Density () | 1,190/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 68112/ 68500 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Guebwiller (Alsatian: Gawill´r; German: Gebweiler) is a commune of the Haut-Rhin département, in Alsace, France. It is situated 20 km to the northwest of Mulhouse at the foot of the Vosges mountains. The Ballon de Guebwiller, the highest point in the Vosges, lies 8 km to the west of the town.
Guebwiller was the birthplace of the physicist and Nobel laureate Alfred Kastler, of the Schlumberger brothers, and of the ceramacist Théodore Deck.
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