Wittenheim

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Wittenheim

Total population

15,262

Elevation223 m

Land area19.01 km²

Coordinates47.81°, 7.34°

Demographic figures from INSEE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Wittenheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department, Grand Est, northeastern France. It is one of the northern suburbs of the city of Mulhouse, and forms part of the Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération, the inter-communal local government body for the Mulhouse conurbation. The commune contains two mining villages, the Cité Jeune-Bois and the Cité Sainte-Barbe.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Jean-Baptiste Troppmann

French spree killer (1849-1870)

C

Carl Maier

Swiss Entrepreneur and Politician

J

Jean-Jacques Scherrer

painter (1855-1916)

Henri Haeffely

politician (1816-1877)

Jean-Julien Weber

French Roman-Catholic priest

Alfred Giess

French painter (1901-1973)

R

René Bohn

chemist (1862-1922)

Jean Fischer

French racing cyclist (1867–1935)

A

Armand Walter

French artistic gymnast (1908-1995)

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Denis Kessler

French businessman

Déborah Heissler

French poet, literary critic, and museologist (born 1976)

Déborah Ortschitt

French volleyball player

E

Emmanuel Fries

French painter (1778-1852)

E

Emmanuel Schmitt

French basketball player (born 1966)

E

Eugène Lacaque

E

Eugène Riedweg

French historian and politician

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Grand Est

• Ruelisheim
  1.6 mi away · pop. 2,453
• Wittelsheim
  4.5 mi away · pop. 10,334
• Munchhouse
  6.8 mi away · pop. 1,557
• Eschentzwiller
  7.1 mi away · pop. 1,493
• Cernay
  7.4 mi away · pop. 11,745
• Merxheim
  7.4 mi away · pop. 1,285
• Uffholtz
  7.4 mi away · pop. 1,649
• Heimsbrunn
  7.6 mi away · pop. 1,336
• Hochstatt
  7.8 mi away · pop. 2,177
• Zillisheim
  8 mi away · pop. 2,514
• Ottmarsheim
  8.1 mi away · pop. 1,995
• Jungholtz
  8.4 mi away · pop. 910

Browse all places in Grand Est →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

greater plantain

Plantago major

Seen 2026-09-25

Wood Avens

Geum urbanum

Seen 2026-09-25

Wood Dock

Rumex sanguineus

Seen 2026-09-25

Annual mercury

Mercurialis annua

Seen 2026-09-25

common dandelion

Taraxacum officinale

Seen 2026-09-25

Eurasian Coot

Fulica atra

Seen 2026-09-23

Grey Heron

Ardea cinerea

Seen 2026-09-23

Common Spitting Spider

Scytodes thoracica

Seen 2026-09-22

Grey Dagger

Acronicta psi

Seen 2026-09-22

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers