Rouffach

Rouffach is a common French, located in the department of the Haut-Rhin and the area Alsace.

Its inhabitants is called the Rouffachois and the Rouffachoises .

Geography

Rouffach is located on the Lauch, to 15 km in the south of Colmar and 28 km in the north of Mulhouse. The Massif of the Vosges shelters its last buttresses which carry a famous vineyard.

The commune of Rouffach has a Exclave located at the North-West of Soultzmatt.

History

The creation of the city goes up at the time Roman, which names it Rubeaquum (red water), because of the presence of a source of water, ferruginous, giving him this color. The city becomes thereafter, at the 5th century, a residence of the kings mérovingiens of Austrasie who build the castle of Isenbourg. At the 7th century, the city knows a miracle: the bishop of Strasbourg, Arbogast, ressuscite the son of the king Dagobert II, which offers, grateful, the city with the prince-bishop of Strasbourg. The city then becomes the capital of the possessions of évêché, in the form of Haut-Mundat, of which also formed Eguisheim part. The city experiences a strong development which allows the construction of an enclosure. The golden age knows an abrupt stop, with the Thirty Year old war, the city is devastated by the Swedes. At the conclusion of the war and annexation of Alsace by France, Haut-Mundat is removed. The city finds then prosperity, in particular thanks to its vineyard and remains saved by the following wars.

Administration

Demography

provisional population for 2005: 4.491

Economy and services with the population

hospital specialized (psychiatry)
first zone of acivity having received the label “numerical zone of activities (ZAN)”

Places and monuments

- Notre Dame of the Assumption, church in yellow sandstone mixing Romance and Gothic style. The two turns are unfinished, the frontage comprises a splendid rosette with ving lancets. The nave is in Gothic style of the 13th century.

Old corn exchange (XVIe).
Old town hall.
" Turn of the sorcières" having been used as prison.
College of Technical, Agricultural and Wine Mainstream education (LEGTAV).
the church (convent) of Récollets was the old church of Rouffach, and is today with the abandonment.
the castle of Isenbourg, was inhabited by the king Dagobert II and his Sigebert son. Today it is a luxury hotel.
House of notable currently institution Saint-Joseph, the small box carries the roughed-hew and illegible armorial bearings of the " Hochmeister " Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg, bishop of Mainz.

Personalities related to the commune

François-Joseph Lefebvre (1755-1820) marshal of Napoleon Bonaparte, ordering the Old guard of 1812 to 1814.

Festivities

the passion of a soil crowned : weekend of the rise
the night of Tourism : July 11th
the Festival Musicalta : from July 20th to August 8th
Festival of the witch : July (after July 14th)
Rouffach celebrates of it: from August 4th to 6th
the market of Artisanal Christmas : December 8th and 9th

Information: These dates were taken for the festivals of year 2007/2008, it is possible that the festivals is shifted of one or two days in the next years (according to the wek-end,…)

See too

Common of Haut-Rhin

External bonds

site (official?) in construction of the town of Rouffach
the Tourist bureau of the canton of Rouffach
the hospital specialized
Rouffach on the site of the national geographical Institute
Rouffach on the site of INSEE
Rouffach on the site of Quid
Localization of Rouffach on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Rouffach on Mapquest
Visit in photographs of Rouffach

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