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Haut-Rhin. / 47.96417°N 7.31972°E / 47.96417; 7.31972. 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 .
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Munster ( French pronunciation: [mœ̃stɛʁ] ⓘ; German: Münster im Elsass) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is located in the valley of the river Fecht, in the Vosges ...
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Alemanni. Area settled by the Alemanni, and sites of Roman–Alemannic battles, third to sixth centuries. The Alemanni or Alamanni [1] [2] were a confederation of Germanic tribes [3] on the Upper Rhine River during the first millennium. First mentioned by Cassius Dio in the context of the campaign of Roman emperor Caracalla of 213, the Alemanni ...
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. Especially after the 1871 cession of the southern territory known since 1922 as Territoire ...
History of Alsace. Coordinates: 48°30′N 7°30′E. The history of Alsace has been influenced by the Rhine and its tributaries, a favorable climate, fertile loess soils, and the region's relative accessibility through and around the Vosges. It was first inhabited by early modern humans during the Paleolithic.
Bergholtz ( French pronunciation: [bɛʁɡɔlts] ⓘ; German: Bergholz) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France, [3] and, since 1 January 2021, the European collectivity of Alsace. The commune is in the historic and cultural region of Alsace. Its inhabitants are known as Bergholtzois (plural: Bergholtzoises ).
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