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- Haut-Rhin is a department in the Grand Est region of France. Its name means Upper Rhine. The Rhine river is Haut-Rhin's eastern border. The prefecture (capital) of Haut-Rhin is Colmar. History Haut-Rhin is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790.
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Haut-Rhin is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It has three districts: Altkirch, Belfort and Colmar, with Colmar as is capital.
Haut-Rhin ( French pronunciation: [ oʁɛ̃], lit. 'Upper Rhine'; Alsatian: Owerelsàss or ‘s Iwerlànd; German: Oberelsass, lit. 'Upper Alsace') is a département in the Grand Est region, France, bordering both Germany and Switzerland. It is named after the river Rhine. Its name means Upper Rhine.
Haut-Rhin is a département in the Grand Est region, France, bordering both Germany and Switzerland. It is named after the river Rhine. Its name means Upper Rhine. Haut-Rhin is the smaller and less populated of the two departments of the former administrative Alsace region, the other being the Bas-Rhin .
Alsace, in current history, is a province of France. It is divided into two sections Bas-Rhin numerically referred to as (67) and Haut-Rhin numerically referred to as (68). Located in the northeastern corner of the country, Alsace borders on Germany, along the Rhine River to the east, and with Switzerland to the southeast.
Colmar is the prefecture of the Haut-Rhin department since 1800. It is the capital of the Colmar-Ribeauvillé arrondissement and is also the administrative centre (French: chef-lieu) of 2 cantons: Colmar-1, formed with a part of Colmar and the commune Ingersheim, with 44,524 inhabitants (2014).
The Ecomuseum at Ungersheim to the south of Rouffach is one of the most popular attractions in the Haut-Rhin. You can see more than 70 reconstructed period houses and farmbuildings that were brought here from the surrounding region and carefully reconstructed. To the east of Mulhouse at Ottmarsheim the 11th century abbey-church is also a ...
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