Haut-Rhin

Haut-Rhin
Details
Information
Number	68
Region	Alsace
Prefecture	Colmar
Subprefectures	Altkirch Guebwiller Mulhouse RibeauvillÃÂ© Thann
Population - Total (1999) - Density	Ranked 29th 708 025 201 /kmÃÂ²
Area	3,525 kmÃÂ²
Arrondissementss	6
Cantons	31
Communes	377
President of the general council	Constant Goerg
Location

Haut-Rhin is a French dÃÂ©partement, named after the Rhine river.

Table of contents

1 History
2 Geography
3 Economy
4 Demographics
5 Culture
6 Miscellaneous topics
7 External links

History

The dÃÂ©partement was created during the French Revolution, 4 mars 1790 by using the law of 22 december 1789 on the southern half of the province of Alsace (Haute-Alsace).

Its boundaries would become modified many times:

1798, it absorbed Mulhouse, formerly a free city, and the last Swiss enclaves in the south;
1800, it absorbed the whole dÃÂ©partement of Mont-Terrible;
1814, it lost the territoires which had been part of Mont-Terrible, returned to Switzerland, except the old principality of MontbÃÂ©liard;
1816, it lost MontbÃÂ©liard, which was attached to the dÃÂ©partement of Doubs;
1871, it was mostly annexed by Germany (Treaty of Frankfurt). The remaining French part formed the Territoire de Belfort;
1919, it was returned to France (Treaty of Versailles) but is still separed from Belfort.