High-Alsace

The High-Alsace is the southernmost part of the Alsace, corresponding about to the current departments of the Haut-Rhin and the Territoire of Belfort. It is with the Low-Alsace one of the subdivision of the historical Area of Alsace.

The German translation, Oberelsass , are still used nowadays by German and the Swiss ones to indicate the department of Haut-Rhin.

This name was used as of the time of the Saint Worsens Romain Germanique and under the Old Mode between 1648 and 1789. Under the German Empire, during the integration of the Alsace-Lorraine of 1870 with 1918, L acted then of a district ( Bezirke ), with the head of which a Bezirkspräsident is, equivalent with Préfet French. Its chief town is Colmar.

Principal cities:

  • Belfort, 55.000 inhabitants. Prefecture of the Territory of Belfort.
  • Colmar, 67.000 inhabitants. Principal agglomeration of the Center-Alsace (Rouffach-Sélestat) and prefecture of Haut-Rhin.
  • Mulhouse, 110.000 inhabitants. Principal agglomeration of the South-Alsace comprising 278.000 inhabitants (INSEE). The city was integrated into High-Alsace in 1792 after the fall of the Republic of Mulhouse.

The flag of High-Alsace red is barred of yellow and is decorated on both sides bar of three yellow crowns (Blasonnement: Of mouths to the gold band accompanied by six crowns by same, three as a chief and three reversed at a peak ). Its union with the flag of Low-Alsace carries out the flag of Alsace.

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