Sundgau

The Sundgau (pronounce “Soundgo”) is a territory located in the south of the area Alsace and part of the south-east of the territory of Belfort (in the east of the France). The name Sundgau comes from the Alémanique and means “County of the South” ( Sund : South, and Gau : County) explaining the writing as old French Sundgow .

Its capital is Altkirch. Principal the common of this territory is Dannemarie, Hirsingue and Ferrette, all three chief towns of canton. These three cantons and that of Altkirch form the Arrondissement of Altkirch, which forms part of geographical Sundgau but corresponds almost exactly to the Pays of Sundgau, within the meaning of the Loi Voynet which sets up a country like a territory of projects.

Sundgau is bordered by the Suisse in the south, the Territory-of-Belfort in the west, the Vallées of the Thur and Doller in north and the valley of the the Rhine in the east. It should be also noted that Sundgau is close to several Agglomération S like Mulhouse, Basle, Thann-Cernay and Belfort-Montbeliard.

Geography

Sundgau is a zone of Colline S which developed in a compartment Tectonique which relatively resisted the depression of the Rhenish Fossé. It is consequently about a zone of Incision in the Roche S with dominant marly of the Oligocène; the principal branches of the hydrographic network , dense, are consisted the courses of the Ill and of the Largue (which is thrown in Ill with the height of Illfurth), in function of which the relief is organized. Altitudes of the Interfluve S drop south to north, of 500 m to the feet of the Chaînon S of the the Jura to 350 m in the south of Mulhouse. In the East-West direction, the highest altitudes are paradoxically in the east, in the south of Folgensbourg, far from the the Vosges, on the interfluve of the networks of Ill and of the the Rhine, whereas with the foot of the Vosges they culminate with 400-450 Mr. One associates with geographical Sundgau the Vallée of the Rhine between Basle and Mulhouse. Thus, one can distinguish the following natural units there: southernmost Sundgau , Septentrional, of the foot of the Vosges, as well as the valley sundgauvienne of the Rhine.

Southernmost Sundgau

It is presented as a plate where flattened interfluves separate the elements from a dense network of hierarchical valleys. The most important branches are drained and present a broad flat fon, whereas the secondary ramifications generally have the shape out of bucket and are not drained today, or then artificially. All these characters are inherited the cold periods, especially of the last glacial period. It is only with the access of the Plaine of the Rhine that the small valleys become more vigorous, presenting mini throats sometimes. Southernmost Sundgau shares these morphological characteristics with the majority of the marly plates of Alsace; its individuality comes from the types of surface formations. On the one hand, the interfluves are often crowned by overwash phases of alpine origin of the beginning of the Quaternaire, trace of an episode of flow of the Aare towards the Bresse; only the siliceous components remain. Other, deposits silt they, resulting from deteriorated Loesses, decalcified and compacted, result undoubtedly from the beginning of the Quaternary one. They occupy most of the tops of slopes and interfluves, often crowning the overwash phases.

It results from it from the grounds with acid tendency, washed, with low hydraulic conductivity, unfavorable to the cultures, which characterize also bottoms of slopes occupied by deposits of solifluction mixing marnes and altered material resulting from the faded loesses and the gravels.

The presence of Loess, very fertile silt, supported a general-purpose Agriculture, according to a compartmental plan in ribbon. The greatest productions resulting from this agriculture are the Maïs, the Blé, the Colza…

The bottom of the small valleys was arranged in pond S by monks for the breeding of carp S at the time medieval. There are many ponds in the valley of the Largue, like in the valley of the Suarcine, in Territory-of-Belfort.

Septentrional Sundgau

In the north of a line Altkirch- Waltenheim, septentrional Sundgau present of the morphological characteristics similar to those of southernmost Sundgau, but the summit alluvial tablecloths are absent, and the loess like cover, which can reach 30 m thickness, is Quaternary superior, therefore, under his traditional, Calcaire and fairly porous facies. The grounds are consequently basic and more favorable to the cultures, as well on the covering loesses interfluves and slopes exposed to the east and north as on the marnes carrying deposits of Solifluxion often thick.

Sundgau of the foot of the Vosges

In the east of a line Heimsbrunn - Spechbach-le-Bas then course of the Releases, Sundgau of the foot of the Vosges constitutes in fact Vosgean Piedmont. The base always consists of marnes Oligocene, the density of the valleys and the characteristics are similar to those of the remainder of Sundgau, the loess like cover is present. But the differences are notable: - it acts as a whole of a tilted plan of the North-West in south-east from the Vosges towards the Largue, according to an average slope of 0,5°, the principal branches of the hydrographic network parallel and being directed in the same direction; - alluvial tablecloths , this time of Vosgean origin, cap the interfluves. The nature of the grounds is locally very variable, according to whether its characters are ordered by the gravel (they are then acid), or by the loesses and marnes, basic.

The Valley sundgauvienne of the Rhine

It extends to the foot from the slope, high of about fifty meters, which limits to the east the plate of Sundgau and which corresponds according to any probability to a relatively recent escarpment of Faille. Of west in is follow one another: - alluvial tablecloth of the last glacial period, which in north, will open out in the Forest of Hardt (located close to the Rhine). This medium is very porous: from where a rather strong edaphic dryness. The small rivers descending the slope infiltrates after 2 or 3 km of course without joining the Rhine; - successive levels of notch in this alluvial tablecloth corresponding at various stages of notch of the Rhine after the last glacial period. The gravels are often covered there with silts of flood and the Ground water is closer, from where a medium more favorable to the cultures; - natural bed of flood of the Rhine, before its correction, moist environment characterized by a network of dead channels.

The Alsatian Jura

detailed Article: the Alsatian Jura

The geographers and geologists often distinguish the geographical entity from the Alsatian Jura of the remainder of Sundgau, because of great morphological difference in these two natural units of the Rhenish Ditch. Nevertheless, it is advisable to study in this article the Alsatian Jura, term often associated with the cultural entity of Sundgau. The border of Alsace with the Suisse does not rest on any base of a natural nature. The septentrional Virgation of the chain of crumpling of the Jura indents Alsace of the South thus. It is characterized by a series of links lengthened in the west-east direction, of calcareous rock, which strip of the depressions cut in the marnes; rivers, the such Release or Ill, which take in these mountains the source, joins the Rhenish Ditch by a zigzagant layout; They essentially follow of their layout the marly depressions but gain north while passing from the one with the other by throats notched through the links. Who says calcareous, known as phenomena of dissolution of the rock and engloutissement of water, and it is in the Jura that one finds the only phenomena karstic (caves, resurgences of underground and similar rivers) in Alsace. The shelters - under - rock of Männlefelsen, with Oberlarg, of which one is famous for the prehistoric layers that it contains, are an example. They are all in all there the features of landscape characteristic of a good part of the Jura called the “folded Jura”.

Prehistory

The first men are established in Sundgau as of 500.000 years before Jesus Christ. The excavations revealed vestiges of the periods Neolithic Paléolithique and . The Bronze Age corresponds to migrations of populations which incinerated their deaths. The age of iron is the best known one with the station height of Britzgyberg with Illfurth, true strengthened city.

History

Antiquity

At the first century before Jesus Christ, the Séquanes, which have as a center Besancon, are established in Sundgau. From 70 before J.C., those are in permanent conflict with their neighbors the Eduens, and call upon German mercenaries, led by Arioviste. Once the finished conflict, the German ones end up settling in the area, and Séquanes, to drive out them, call upon the Romains. Jules César beats Arioviste into 58 before J.C close to Cernay, and a long Roman domination starts. A very dense network of roads is set up.

The Middle Ages

The Roman domination takes abruptly fine at the beginning of the 5th century, when the Alamans cross the the Rhine. Those occupy Sundgau then, followed by the Francs after the victory of Tolbiac in 496. Sundgau is included in the kingdom of Austrasie and is belonged to the duchy of Alsace. The name “Sundgau” comes thus from this period, where Alsace is separate in two administrative entities, Low-Alsace called county of Nordgau, and High-Alsace called county of Sundgau. The border between the two territories corresponds roughly to that of the current departments of the Haut-Rhin and the the Low-Rhine.

Also, the Christianisme is introduced into Sundgau under the Mérovingiens.

With 9th and 10th centuries Sundgau is managed by the family of the Lieutfried. After the division of the Empire of Charlemagne, the area knows one unstable period, it is the beginning of the Féodalité.
In 1125, Frederic, wire of Thierry Ier of Montbeliard, inherits the south of Alsace and becomes Count de Ferrette. Thus, of 1125 with 1324, Sundgau is managed by the counts de Ferrette. Ulrich III (1310 - 1324) conquers the valley of Saint-Amarin but dies without male descendant. Also, his/her Jeanne daughter marries Albert II Habsbourg and Sundgau thus becomes Austrian.

“Austrian former countries” (former Austria)

Jeanne de Ferrette married to Albert II of Habsbourg, the area becomes thus the “Austrian former Countries (Austria former)”, managed since Ensisheim by a large baillif, and divided into four baillages (Landser, Thann, Altkirch and Ferrette).
The Réforme does not relate to Sundgau, in spite of the proximity of Basle and Mulhouse. The country remains faithful to the religion of the Habsbourg, the Catholicisme.
The beginning of the 16th century is marked by the Guerre of the Peasants or Bumpkins who want to preserve the “old man orally transmitted right” and do not accept the Roman law that the lords wish to introduce. The nobility in fate weakened, the village community is to the maximum of her force. Also, from many houses rebirths go back to this time (Lutter, Obermorschwiller, town hall of Ferrette…)

French annexation

Starting from 1632, the Guerre Thirty Year old breaks on Sundgau, with a violence without precedent in the history of the area. The Swedish, supported by France, invade the country, plundering and burning all on their passage. In reaction, the peasants revolt. But the rebellion is subdued, and the Swedes hang the country leaders with the trees of the roads. Starting from 1634, the Swedes yield the fortified towns to the French, and in 1648, the conflict is completed with the Traité of Westphalia. The assessment is disastrous: Sundgau lost up to 80% of its population in certain places. The country thus becomes French, and in 1659, the county of Ferrette is granted by the king of France to the cardinal Mazarin.

The beginning of the 18th century is one boom with the development of agriculture, and the beginnings of the industry of the Textile. But the economic situation and social is degraded in second half of the century, with a too heavy taxation, and the appearance of the famines.

In 1789, the French revolution is reflected until in Sundgau, and of many conflicts burst in the cities had in particular with the unpopularity of the Masters.

In 1790, Sundgau is included in the Département of Haut-Rhin, and the town of Altkirch becomes chief town of district.

The return to the order with place under the Consulate and the Empire. The 19th century does not show great changes, agriculture is always the economic main activity, in spite of the establishment of some industries like Gilardoni tileries and the construction of weaving looms of Xavier the Jordan in Altkirch.

German domination

Because of the war of 1870, Alsace as well as part of Lorraine are annexed in Germany by Bismarck in 1871. Sundgau becomes again German. Also, the country is separate into two, because part of the Territory of Belfort belonged to Sundgau (Réchésy, Suarce, Vauthiermont, Florimont etc). The books of history raise the fact that the border was fixed by respecting the linguistic entities (novel and Germanic) and by using the watershed between the Mediterranean and the the North Sea. In fact, several “Romance” communes are integrated into the German Empire like Montreux-Old man, Montreux-Young person, Saint-Cosme, Bellemagny etc the French Douane settles thus with Foussemagne for the Belfort-Basle road, and with Lachapelle-under-Rougemont for the road Belfort-Colmar; on this road, the German customs are installed at the following village, Soppe-le-Bas, in a requisitioned inn, vis-a-vis the church (current town hall).

Economic development begins again, and the area opens with the remainder of Alsace, fault of being able to trade with France.

First World War

The combat of the First World War fall down in Sundgau as from August 1914. Battle of the Mill of Ruail, in the surroundings of Montreux-Young person and Montreux-old man Indeed, the French make jump the railway viaduct which cross the Largue between Dannemarie and Manspach, and the face stabilize themselves and extend from the Vosges at the Swiss border.

On both sides of the line of fire, the troops strengthen the positions by building shelters, by trenching, by establishing networks of barbed wires and by installing railway lines to narrow gauge railway. The German troops establish three lines of defense: the first in the forests of Largitzen and Heimersdorf, the second between Bettendorf and Hirsingue, the third on the heights of Wittersdorf and Emlingen.

The population undergoes the artillery, the bombardments, and by fear of espionage it is evacuated in the communes which are not touched by the war.

Sundgau becomes again French in 1918, but integration in national space poses some problems however. Indeed, the Alsatian ones which since 1870 was to speak German, are seen in the obligation to be expressed in French. By way of derogation, German is taught at the school at a rate of three hours per week.

Inter-war period

During the interval wars, 56% of the population work in agriculture, 28% in the Industrie and 7% only in the tertiary .

Second world war

After the advertisement of the entry in war of France against Germany, the communes bordering on the Rhine are evacuated. The German army crosses the river the June 15th 1940, and after the Armistice of the June 22nd, Sundgau is with the hands of the Germans. The Jewish , the North-Africans, the francophile ones are expelled towards the free Zone, while the schoolboys sundgauviens have the obligation to speak German and absolute prohibition to express itself in French. The names of the communes are débaptisés, (for example, the village of Soppe-le-Bas, first commune of Haut-Rhin on main road 83, becomes it " Niedersoultzbach, of the name of the small Soultzbach, river which crosses it) and young people are enlisted in Youths hitlériennes, starting from 1942.

Also as from 1942, the age groups of 1914 with 1926 are enlisted of force in the Wehrmacht. They are 70.000 old Alsaciens young people from 18 to 29 years. The incorporation of force in the Waffen S will intervene only as from 1944. Almost all are directed on the Russian face where much found death. The half of the age group 1926, is 2.000 men, is directly built-in Waffen S. The proportion is even more important for the classes 1908 to 1910. The Alsatian ones, like other Waffen S, carry under the left arm the tattooing of their blood group. Their membership of the S can thus be easily revealed, which will be worth with a certain number of them to be immediately shot down at the time of their capture by the Russian or American troops.

Also much of Sundgauviens which seeks to escape enrôlement from force try to pass in Suisse. Much arrives there, in spite of the impressive means as well psychological (Gauleiter Robert Wagner takes an ordinance the July 7th 1942 against “the illegal emigration out of Alsace”) that soldiers (an area closed with barbed wire is installed along the Swiss border). However, the most outstanding fact of the Second world war is certainly the escape missed by eighteen young people from Ballersdorf. Indeed, the February 12th, they seek to rejoin Switzerland. After an exchange of shots with Seppois-le-Bas, a German customs officer finds death. Three young people are shot at once. The others succeed in escaping, but are stopped on their premises the following day by the Germans. They all are shot on February 16th with the Struthof.

Sundgau is, to finish, released by the general De Lattre de Tassigny in November 1944. The first released commune is Seppois-le-Bas.

After 1945

After war, one attends one period of rebuilding. Sundgau is touched by the economic advancement of the glorious Thirty, and the number of farmers regresses year by year. More than 35% of the population works today in the tertiary sector.

Blazon

of mouths to the money fasce accompanied as a chief by three gold stars and at a peak by two gold bars leant.

The two leant bars are those of the County of Ferrette (1125 - 1324), which originate in the sovereignty of the County of Bar and Montbeliard which dominated Sundgau before 1125.
The field of mouths with the money fasce recalls the sovereignty of the House of Austria on High the Alsace between 1324 and 1648, while the three stars are carried in fasce in the weapons of the Cardinal Mazarin Prime Minister for the King of France, successor of the Habsbourg in Sundgau.

Organization

Administrative Sundgau represents a district (the Arrondissement of Altkirch) and is divided into 4 cantons: Dannemarie, Hirsingue, Ferrette, and Altkirch. The district was built around a NORTH-SOUTH axis in a chain of communes.

Concept of Country

The Communities of communes

Part of the communes of Sundgau gathered in 8 communities of communes and a village (Bernwiller) to form the country of Sundgau, and to thus promote the economy and the Tourisme:

the community of the communes of the Door of Alsace: 33 communes
the the Community of the communes of the Alsatian Jura: 24 communes
the Communauté of the communes of the sector of Illfurth: 10 communes
the the Community of the communes of the Valley of Loose the: 9 communes
the community of the communes of Altkirch: 4 communes
the community of the communes of the canton of Hirsingue: 11 communes
the community of the communes of the Valley of Hundsbach: 12 communes
the community of the communes of Ill and Gersbach: 9 communes

The interrogation on the limits of Sundgau

The visitor going in Sundgau will put certainly the following question: which is the " vraie" border of Sundgau?

Apart from the territorial organization evoked above which gathers the district of Altkirch and the commune of Bernwiller, the borders of Sundgau vary according to the tackled subject. The limits sundgauviennes will not be the same ones if one approaches the historical, patrimonial or linguistic topic.

Historical limits

Indeed, historically the borders of Sundgau are defined by different the baillages Austrian years 1500, thus gathering most of the South of Alsace and current the Territoire of Belfort, of Delle to Ensisheim while passing by Saint-Louis.

Cultural limits

This so large extent of Sundgau left traces in particular to the point of view of the inheritance where one finds the farms with half-timberings rather great characteristics in Sundgau. The organization of the villages in “village-street” or “star villages” is a characteristic which one finds also everywhere in Sundgau. Compared to the limits of the Country of Sundgau defined by the Law Voynet, this last is increased with the high valley of Soultzbach (currently in the canton of Masevaux), with the territory being between the Rhine and the district of' Altkirch, the oriental party of the Territory of Belfort and some villages being in the south of Mulhouse, like Didenheim and Zillisheim.

Linguistic limits

Also, before 1870 the Territory of Belfort forms integral part of the department of Haut-Rhin. There is thus no border defined at the cantonal, departmental and regional level before this date. Nevertheless, the Western part of Haut-Rhin is made up of a population whose language and names of the villages are Romance, contrary to the south-south-east part of Haut-Rhin where the speech and the names of the villages are Germanic. After 1870, when the territory around Belfort remains French, a Romance part of Haut-Rhin is annexed. They are the villages of Saint-Cosme, Eteimbes, Bellemagny, Valdieu-Lutran, Bréchaumont, Chavannes-on-the Pond, Montreux-Old man, Montreux-Young person, Magny and Romagny. Thus, the linguistic borders of Sundgau do not follow the administrative borders.

Population

The Population rises with 61.841 inhabitants in 1999. It rose with 57.112 inhabitants in 1990, that is to say an increase of 8,3%. It thus follows the evolution of the Démographie in Haut-Rhin, which recorded for the same periods an increase of 5,3%, and more largely Alsace, which recorded an increase of 6,8%.

Altkirch is the most populated commune of Sundgau, with 5.386 inhabitants (1999). It is followed by Hirsingue (2 057 inhabitants) then Dannemarie (2 011 inhabitants).

Also, 70% of the population are distributed in 103 communes of less than 1.000 inhabitants. Lastly, 19,2% of the inhabitants have less than 15 years, and 19,3% have more than 60 years. As in the remainder of France, one attends a rise of the proportion of more than 60 years.

Economy

Sundgau remains a very agricultural area and its fabric of activities remains traditional. Important urban poles like the Agglomeration tri-main road of Basle, the urban surface of Belfort-Montbeliard-Sochaux, the Mulhousian agglomeration, are close and attract the Flux consumption of goods and services. The qualifications are weaker and the incomes are higher because of employment frontier and of its economic impact and social.

Sundgau suffers nevertheless from under-equipment, in particular as regards reception of companies. Indeed, even if for two years one has seen appearing the installation of some companies, the basin of employment is not gravitational enough because of the Enclave lies of the Territoire. The companies thus prefer to settle in the close urban poles.

Transport

Highway network

Sundgau is encircled by important transportation routes, as the highway has 36 between Belfort and Mulhouse, and the Autoroute has 35, between Mulhouse and Basle. However, the elected officials agree to say that the highway network sundgauvien is too obsolete. Among the important transportation routes in Sundgau, one finds the secondary road D419, which crosses the area of is in west, between Belfort and Basle, passing by Dannemarie and Altkirch, and the secondary road D432, which crosses Sundgau of north to the south, and passing by Illfurth, Altkirch, Hirsingue and Ferrette.

Nevertheless, of the projects are under development. For example, a debate was recently started about the layout of several roads, and of which the goal is the road improvement of Sundgau and the skirting of villages. Let us quote in particular the deviation of Retzwiller and Dannemarie, or the skirting of Spechbach-le-Bas and Hochstatt. Another great project is in the course of discussion, it acts of the prolongation of the fast track of Dornach until Altkirch. However, the consequences of the deviations are felt on the landscape sundgauvien already very weakened by the creation of allotments which do not cease increasing.

Rail network

The Paris-Basle railway serves Sundgau, in particular the towns of Dannemarie, Altkirch and Illfurth. The regional trains are rather frequent, and are useful for Sundgauviens which work in Mulhouse or Belfort.

In the past, several railways crossed Sundgau right through. For example, the railway between Dannemarie and Pfetterhouse served the valley of the Largue and joined then the Swiss network by Bonfol and Porrentruy. The valley of Ill was also served. Indeed, of the trains served Ferrette, Hirtzbach, and this line was used to feed industries of Waldighofen in the years 1900. There existed still a line going of Waldighofen with Blotzheim. All these railways were dismantled because of the lack of travellers on these lines, and are replaced today by cycle tracks. Thus, the service road travellers is stopped in 1953 between Altkirch and Ferrette, and in 1965 between Dannemarie and Pfetterhouse.

In same time, the Altkirch line - Ferrette is partially deposited because the section leading of Altkirch to remaining Hirsingue in place until 1990. The line of Dannemarie with Porrentruy, having lost its international character, sees circulating its last trains in 1970, after 60 years of existence. There remains today only the Swiss section between Bonfol and Porrentruy.

River system

The Canal of the Rhone in the Rhine crosses Sundgau by Montreux-Old man, Dannemarie, Illfurth. There exists since 1824 and was imagined by Freycinet. Today, the narrowness of this channel does not make it possible the barges with large gauge to borrow it. Moreover, it is rather intended for the pleasure boats.

A project of large channel was abandoned. It was to allow the digging of a channel connecting the Rhine to the Saone, while passing by Doubs and Sundgau. Indirectly, one could have connected the the North Sea to the the Mediterranean without making pass flows of goods by the Straits of Gibraltar. But the anger of the farmers sundgauviens, and the guards of the environment of the area influenced the decision of the Town and country planning and Department of the Environment; the project is finally abandoned.

Tourism

The General advice of Haut-Rhin is interested since 2000 in Sundgau and the development of the Tourisme in the area, following the example installation of the source of Ill or the construction of a rest area on D419 close to Chavannes-on-the pond. Sundgau is an area whose framework of life makes possible the development of the Country holidays, i.e. where the visitor seeks serenity, and wants to be in direct connection with nature, with activities like excursions.

Since 2005, the General advice has also as a project to improve the cycle tracks. Moreover, it has as an ambition to prolong the cycle track of the Largue (Manspach with Seppois-le-Bas) until Pfetterhouse by borrowing the old railway. Also, within the framework of the véloroute n°6 which must connect Nantes to Budapest, the tow path of the channel of the Rhone in the Rhine will be reconverted in cycle track of Wolfersdorf to Montreux-Castle into the Territory-of-Belfort, and will prolong at the same time the existing cycle track which skirts the channel of Brunstatt in Dannemarie.

A new study on tourism in Sundgau was launched by the General advice of Haut-Rhin, under the aegis of the adviser Hartmann, in March 2007. During this study, various actors of tourism in Sundgau met to try to draw from the axes of tourist development and to analyze the elements in place.

If the final result is not yet known, all the economy of Sundgau expects much and hopes from it that it will contribute to improve and optimize the tourist offer of Sundgau.

Inheritance

Castle of Ferrette (culminating with 612 meters of altitude, it was the castle of the counts de Ferrette)
Château of Morimont
Château of Landskron
Moulin of the Hundsbach
Ancienne Cistercian abbey of Lucelle destroyed with the revolution, and rebuilt to accommodate a hotel
Église of Feldbach of the Romance type
Église of Altkirch of the Romance type
Musée sundgauvien of Altkirch
Village flowered of Hirtzbach (4 flowers with the contest of fleurissement national)
the house of the nature of Altenach

Sundgauviens famous

Jean-Jacques Henner, painter (1829 - 1905)
Joseph Gilardoni, founder of tilery Gilardoni
Xavier the Jordan, textile manufacturer (1798 - 1866)
Charles Zumstein, poet-peasant, radiesthesist (1867 - 1963)
Nathan Katz, poet, born on December 24th, 1892 in Waldighoffen
Eugene Ricklin, politician (1862 - 1935)

See too

fried Carp, culinary speciality of Sundgau
the Alsatian Jura
Country of Sundgau according to the law Voynet

External bonds

Sundgau in south Alsace
Hirsingue: Habitat, habits and community life - Pages of history - have betsi eber R Sundgau Hirsingue.
Promsundgau site on tourism in Sundgau
Company of History of Sundgau
Tourist bureau of the area of Altkirch
Tourist bureau of the Alsatian Jura
Site on the events in Sundgau and in Altkirch
Sundgau through the wars
Directory of the Web sites of Sundgau (undertaken, associations, communes…)
the gate sundgauvien

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