Saint-Louis (Haut-Rhin)
Saint- Louis ( German Saint-Louis ) is a commune in the department of Haut-Rhin in the Alsace region. With 20,294 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011), the city is the seventh-largest community in Alsace ( the fifth largest outside of the metropolitan area of Strasbourg ) and the third largest in the Upper Rhine. It belongs to the district Mulhouse, on the Canton Huningue and is the seat of the municipal association Trois Frontières.
The inhabitants are called in French Ludoviciens (after the Latin form of Ludwig). The German name of the city is not very common, as it is at Saint -Louis is a French creation in Alsace is, that the French name is the original. The fact that the neighboring - also relatively young - Basle district of Sankt Johann is, has no connection with the origin of the city name.
Geography
Besides Hüningen ( Huningue ) and Weil am Rhein Saint- Louis is one of the direct non-Swiss neighboring cities of Basel and part of the tri-national Basel area. It borders except at Basel to Village - Neuf, Huningue, Hésingue, Hegenheim and Blotzheim.
History
After the conquest of Sundgauvian and other parts of Alsace by France in the wake of the Thirty Years' War and the Peace of Westphalia was for the French crown a growing interest in monitoring and securing the left bank area on the Rhine below the territory of Basel ( accession to the Confederation 1501). 1679 therefore ordered Louis XIV in the conscious declaration of a further expansion policy on the Upper Rhine ( taking Colmar 1673 defeat of imperial and the Electoral Palatinate troops in Turckheim, looting the city in 1675, Peace of Nijmegen in 1679 ) the construction of the fortress Hüningen at this strategic location. The inhabitants of the place, the former fishing village Hüningen, had to give this military facility, the construction of the fortress builder Vauban in 1680 recorded. They were in the newly founded Village -Neuf and the Basel Street - (Mulhouse - ) Paris located where I already was a first core of today's Saint -Louis at the border. This place, consisting of the dwellings of some border guards and hostels was also initially a district of Huningue Neudorfs. On November 26, 1684 - some three years after the coronation of Reunionspolitik taking Strasbourg - was officially named on Regulation of Louis XIV, the city with his name. However namesake is actually not the Sun King himself, but its predecessor, the sainted King Louis IX. ( Saint- Louis).
During the French Revolution, renamed the city from 1793 to 1814 Bourg Libre.
In 1953, the municipality Bourgfelden and 1958 the district Neuweg (La Chaussée ) were incorporated into the municipality Blotzheim. Since then, EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse - Freiburg is mostly on the floor of the town of Saint- Louis.
On 30 October 2000, the Association of Municipalities Trois Frontières was created in Saint- Louis, whose headquarters is located in Saint- Louis.
Demographics
Economy and culture
1806 founded here by Michel L' Evéché minor one inch service company in which, after the Battle of Waterloo, the former officer Marie Mathias Nicolas Louis Danzas entered. For him, the global forwarding Danzas AG, which was acquired by the German Post AG 1999 developed.
A Institute of ballistics ( with the beginning mostly German employees ) founded under the direction of Prof. Hubert Schardin to military investigations - 1945 in Saint- Louis - initially under French leadership. In 1959, the institute was transformed into a French-German Research Institute of Saint -Louis (ISL ).
In a disused factory of spirits manufacturer Fernet Branca is located since 2004, the Espace d'Art Contemporain Fernet Branca, an exhibitions of Contemporary Art.
Twinning
- Breisach, Baden- Württemberg
- Lectoure, Midi-Pyrénées region
- Peyrehorade, Region Aquitaine
- Pimbo, Region Aquitaine
Station
Seat of Swiss
Theater
Museum of Art
Border posts (viewed from Switzerland )