Bernwiller

Bernwiller (German Berne hamlet ) is a commune with 644 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) in the department of Haut-Rhin in the Alsace region. She is a member of the Communauté de communes de la Porte d'Alsace.

Geography

The municipality is located in Bernwiller Sundgau, about twelve kilometers south-west of Mulhouse.

Demographics

Attractions

  • The church of Saint -Jean is from the year 1784, it was bombed in 1915 and rebuilt in 1928 and renovated in 2004.
  • Monument to the painter Jean-Jacques Henner from 1911

Personalities

  • Jean Jacques Henner (1829-1905), French painter of the Academic Realism
  • Louis Schittly (* 1938), doctor, writer and co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières
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