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Guebwiller
Grand Esttown
Guebwiller
Total population
11,137
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City facts
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Overview
Guebwiller is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It was a sub-prefecture of the department until 2015.
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History
Guebweiler, as Gebweiler, is mentioned as early as 774. It belonged to the religious foundation of Murbach, and in 1759 the abbots chose it for their residence. In 1789, at the outbreak of the French Revolution, the monastic buildings were laid in ruins, and, though the archives were rescued and removed to Colmar, the library perished.
Geography
Guebwiller has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Guebwiller is . The average annual rainfall is with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Guebwiller was on 27 June 2026; the lowest temperature ever recorded was on 20 December 2009.
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Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
Climate
Air quality
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Wildlife & biodiversity
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Notable people from here
People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.
Nearby places in Grand Est
- Bergholtz1.7 mi away · pop. 1,108
- Jungholtz1.8 mi away · pop. 910
- Bergholtz-Zell1.8 mi away · pop. 401
- Rimbach-près-Guebwiller2.6 mi away · pop. 203
- Lautenbach3.3 mi away · pop. 1,477
- Lautenbach-Zell3.6 mi away · pop. 952
- Merxheim3.8 mi away · pop. 1,285
- Rouffach5.2 mi away · pop. 4,186
- Munwiller6.3 mi away · pop. 456
- Uffholtz6.3 mi away · pop. 1,649
- Oberentzen8.1 mi away · pop. 698
- Vieux-Thann8.2 mi away · pop. 2,855
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
INSEE — French National Institute of Statistics
- INSEE code
- 68112
- Department
- 68
- Region
- 44
- Population (Wikidata)
- 11,243
geo.api.gouv.fr
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • iNaturalist
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
- • INSEE — French national statistics, via geo.api.gouv.fr (official commune code, population, surface, department, region)
- • INSEE — French National Institute of Statistics — geo.api.gouv.fr