Wissembourg

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Wissembourg Weißenburg
Commune
A general view of Wissembourg
Coat of arms
Location of Wissembourg
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Coordinates: 49°02′N 7°57′E / 49.04°N 7.95°E / 49.04; 7.95
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton	Wissembourg
Intercommunality	Pays de Wissembourg
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Sandra Fischer-Junck[1]
Area 1	48.18 km2 (18.60 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	7,516
• Density	160/km2 (400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	67544 /67160
Elevation	133–527 m (436–1,729 ft) (avg. 160 m or 520 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Wissembourg (French pronunciation: [visɑ̃buʁ] ^ⓘ; South Franconian: Weisseburch [ˈvaɪsəbʊʁç]; German: Weißenburg [ˈvaɪsn̩bʊʁk] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France.^[3]

Wissembourg was a sub-prefecture of the department until 2015.^[4] The name Wissembourg is a Gallicized version of Weißenburg (Weissenburg) in German meaning "white castle". The Latin place-name, sometimes used in ecclesiastical sources, is Sebusium.^[5]

The town was annexed by France after 1648 but then incorporated into Germany in 1871. It was returned to France in 1919, but reincorporated back into Germany in 1940. After 1944 it again became French.