Bischwiller

Commune in Grand Est, France

Bischwiller Bìschweiler
Commune
La Laub, former town hall, now a museum La Laub, former town hall, now a museum
Coat of arms of Bischwiller Coat of arms
Location of Bischwiller Map
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Coordinates: 48°46′00′′N 7°51′27′′E / 48.7667°N 7.857500°E / 48.7667; 7.857500
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton	Bischwiller
Intercommunality	CA Haguenau
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Lucien Netzer^[1]
Area ¹	17.25 km² (6.66 sq mi)
Population (2022)^[2]	12,211
• Density	710/km² (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	67046 /67240
Elevation	123–147 m (404–482 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bischwiller (French pronunciation: [biʃvilɛʁ] ⁱ; German: Bischweiler; Alsatian: Bíschwiller)^[a] is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France,^[4] just west of the river Moder.

Geography

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The city is 7.8 kilometers (4.8 mi) southeast of Haguenau, 8 kilometers (5.0 mi) west-northwest of the German border and the Rhine (Rhin), and lies 22 kilometers (14 mi) north-northeast of Strasbourg.

The Moder, a Rhine tributary, flows across the town. Among the other streams which cross the area can be cited the following tributaries of the Moder: the Rothbaechel, the Erlengraben and the Waschgraben. The last one is formed by the confluence of two smaller streams named Weihergraben and Schnuchgraben.

Population

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Due to its large Turkish minority, Bischwiller has been pejoratively dubbed "Turcwiller" or "Bischtanbul".^[5]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	3,250	—
1800	3,449	+0.85%
1806	3,902	+2.08%
1821	4,806	+1.40%
1831	5,927	+2.12%
1836	5,854	−0.25%
1841	5,721	−0.46%
1846	6,260	+1.82%
1851	6,642	+1.19%
1856	7,676	+2.94%
1861	8,780	+2.72%
1866	9,911	+2.45%
1871	9,220	−1.44%
1875	7,102	−6.32%
1880	6,827	−0.79%
1885	6,815	−0.04%
1890	7,014	+0.58%
1895	7,304	+0.81%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1900	7,897	+1.57%
1905	8,279	+0.95%
1910	8,149	−0.32%
1921	7,210	−1.11%
1926	8,142	+2.46%
1931	8,059	−0.20%
1936	8,248	+0.46%
1946	7,581	−0.84%
1954	7,843	+0.43%
1962	8,198	+0.55%
1968	8,780	+1.15%
1975	9,653	+1.36%
1982	10,612	+1.36%
1990	10,969	+0.41%
1999	11,596	+0.62%
2007	12,659	+1.10%
2012	12,643	−0.03%
2017	12,538	−0.17%

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Source: EHESS^[6] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[7]

Culture

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Personalities

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Henri Baumer, master carpenter
Claude Vigée, poet
Jacob Kirkman and Abraham Kirkman, harpsichord makers
Jean Daum, glassware manufacturer
Lucien Muller, footballer
Otto Meißner, German politician
Christian Goodnight (born Christian Gutknecht) is a direct-line ancestor of former U.S. President Barack Obama.^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

Photo gallery

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Ancient timber-framed pharmacy

Ancient timber-framed pharmacy
Saint-Augustin church

Saint-Augustin church
Bischwiller town hall

Bischwiller town hall
Protestant temple: tombstone of John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (died in 1604) tombstone

Protestant temple: tombstone of John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (died in 1604) tombstone

Notes

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^ Also spelt Bishweiller in some older sources.^[3]

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
^ Rapp 1823, pp. 365–366.
^ INSEE commune file
^ Gasparini, William; Koebel, Michel (2017). "Le football communautaire : enquête dans les clubs alsaciens, France". Sciences de la société. 101 (101): 144–167. doi:10.4000/sds.6469 .
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Bischwiller, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ Forek, Scott (September 9, 2007). "Christian Gutnecht-Goodnight: 'The dark and bloody ground'". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on March 4, 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2009.
^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung 24 juillet 2008, Die Zeit of the same day, and Zeitmagazin Leben 24.7.2008, N.31, p.14-15 (the article in the Zeitmagazin contains a complete genealogy of Barack Obama)
^ "Obama's forefathers include Swiss immigrant: archivist". Agence France-Presse. September 24, 2008.
^ Harneis, Robert (January 20, 2009). "Goodnight Mr. President". French News. Archived from the original on January 31, 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2009.