Wissembourg

Wissembourg
Weißenburg
A general view of Wissembourg
A general view of Wissembourg
Coat of arms of Wissembourg
Location of Wissembourg
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Wissembourg is located in France
Wissembourg
Wissembourg
Wissembourg is located in Grand Est
Wissembourg
Wissembourg
Coordinates: 49°02′N 7°57′E / 49.04°N 7.95°E / 49.04; 7.95
CountryFrance
RegionGrand Est
DepartmentBas-Rhin
ArrondissementHaguenau-Wissembourg
CantonWissembourg
IntercommunalityPays de Wissembourg
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Sandra Fischer-Junck[1]
Area
1
48.18 km2 (18.60 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
7,516
 • Density160/km2 (400/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
67544 /67160
Elevation133–527 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.

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ INSEE commune file
  4. ^ Décret n° 2014-1722 du 29 décembre 2014 portant suppression des arrondissements de Strasbourg-Campagne et de Wissembourg (département du Bas-Rhin)
  5. ^ Sebastian Franck, Germaniae Chronicon (Westermair 1538), p. CCCV verso. Jaucourt, L'Encylopédie, 1st ed. (1751), Vol. XVII, pp. 595–96.