Alba

Alba is a common French, located in the department of the the Low-Rhine and the area Alsace.

Geography

Located at two kilometers in the North-East of City, the commune of Alba is also localized on left bank of the Giessen, close to the small valley of Erlenbach (430 m) surrounded by the heights of the Ungersberg. The locality is vast, 1083 ha, and is near before valley, very close also of the mountainous periphery. The small valley of Erlenbach is located not far from hills relatively low (Schrann-Schiebenberg 430 m, Sohlkreuz 463 m) which widens towards north. It is also located at:
  • In the West, in limit with the commune of Breitenbach, by a mountainous edge beginning with the small collar from Sohl (448 m) for ganer in altitude towards north until Large Gietzig (769 m), route borrowed roughly by the old Way of the Asses which leads City to the Hohwald.
  • In north, close to the collar of Bellevue (748 m) which gives on Hohwald, the edge joined the last peaks of the solid mass of the Champ of Fire which are maintained around 700 m and make function of watershed between Giessen and the Andlau.
  • In the east, these peaks join themselves the top isolated and dissymmetrical of Ungersberg (901 m) which dominates the neighbouring hills from 300 to 400 meters.
A very ramified hydrographic network drains water of Ungersberg and the buttresses of the Field of Fire and incidental clause strongly slopes and hills releasing of nompbreux small valleys and Coteau X. The village (altitude 300 meters) is established on both sides course of Erlenbach, the brook running out along the main street before being covered. The village of vancances V.V.F of Albéville was installed to approximately 1,5 km in the east of the village on a projecting ledge of the small valley of Sonnenbach, with the foot of Ungersberg.

Heraldic

" Of Azure with three to three rafters of argent"

Weapon S speaking created under Louis XIV. Perhaps the Azure points out the blue color of the river. As for the Rafter S, they can suggest that the Village is located in a Vallon boxed.

Etymology

Like many villages of the Valley of City, Alba (in German Erlenbach and Alsatian Erelbach) inherited the name of the Ruisseau which crosses the village: the brook of the alders. The orthography of this name underwent during the centuries only minor modifications: Erlebach in 1303 and 1341, Erlibach in 1362, Ehrlinbach in 1362, Erlebach again in 1365 and 1380, Erlenbach in 1665. In Romance dialect, " Erle" became " Al" and " Bach" moults itself in " Be" from where Alba, denomination adopted in 1919.

History

The village was called formerly Erlenbach and was famous Alba in 1867

Administration

Demography

  • provisional population for 2006: 473

Places and Monuments

  • House of the Valley of City
  • Riding school Equivallé
  • VVF in Albéville
  • Aerodrome

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of the Low-Rhine

External bonds

  • the House of the Valley of City - Museum of Arts and Traditions Popular
  • Alba on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Alba on the site of INSEE
  • Alba on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Alba on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Alba on Mapquest

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