Bischwiller (; ; gsw-FR, Bíschwiller) is a commune in the
Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin (; Alsatian: ''Unterelsàss'', ' or '; traditional german: links=no, Niederrhein; en, Lower Rhine) is a department in Alsace which is a part of the Grand Est super-region of France. The name means 'Lower Rhine', referring to its low ...
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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in
Grand Est
Grand Est (; gsw-FR, Grossa Oschta; Moselle Franconian/ lb, Grouss Osten;
Rhine Franconian: ''Groß Oschte''; german: Großer Osten ; en, "Great East") is an administrative region in Northeastern France. It superseded three former administrat ...
in northeastern France, just west of the river Moder.
Geography
The city is southeast of
Haguenau
Haguenau (; Alsatian: or ; and historically in English: ''Hagenaw'') is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department of France, of which it is a sub-prefecture.
It is second in size in the Bas-Rhin only to Strasbourg, some to the south. To the ...
Strasbourg
Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...
.
The Moder, a Rhine tributary, flows across the town. Among the other streams which cross the area can be cited the following tributaries of the Morder: the Rothbaechel, the Erlengraben and the Waschgraben. The last one is formed by the confluence of two smaller streams named ''Weihergraben'' and ''Schnuchgraben''.
Population
Due to its large Turkish minority, Bischwiller has been pejoratively dubbed "Turcwiller" or "Bischtanbul".
Culture
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Maison des Arts (Bischwiller) Maison des Arts ( French for: "House of Arts") is a museum in Bischwiller in the Bas-Rhin department of France.
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Musée de la Laub
Musée de la Laub is a museum in Bischwiller in the Bas-Rhin department of France. Built in 1665 under Duke Christian II de Birkenfeld Bischwiller, it was the centre of village life until the 20th century. It became the town hall in 1912 and house ...
Personalities
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Henri Baumer
Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry.
People with this given name
; French noblemen
:'' See the 'List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.''
* Henri I de Mont ...
, master carpenter
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Claude Vigée
Claude Vigée (born Claude Strauss; 3 January 1921 – 2 October 2020) was a French poet who wrote in French and Alsatian. He described himself as a "Jew and an Alsatian, thus doubly Alsatian and doubly Jewish".
Life
Vigée was born in Bischwi ...
, poet
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Jacob Kirkman The Kirkman family (variants: Kirckman, Kirchmann) were English harpsichord and later piano makers of Alsatian origin, active from the 1770s until the late 1800s.
Members of the Kirkman family
Jacob Kirkman (4 March 1710 – 9 June 1792) was born ...
and
Abraham Kirkman The Kirkman family (variants: Kirckman, Kirchmann) were English harpsichord and later piano makers of Alsatian origin, active from the 1770s until the late 1800s.
Members of the Kirkman family
Jacob Kirkman (4 March 1710 – 9 June 1792) was born ...
, harpsichord makers
* Jean Daum, glassware manufacturer
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Lucien Muller
Lucien Muller-Schmidt (born 3 September 1934) is a French former football player and manager who played as a midfielder.
He was part of France at FIFA World Cup 1966 but did not play any match.
Career
Born in Bischwiller, Muller started out in ...
, footballer
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Otto Meißner
Otto Lebrecht Eduard Daniel Meissner (13 March 1880, Bischwiller, Alsace – 27 May 1953, Munich) was head of the Office of the President of Germany from 1920 to 1945 during nearly the entire period of the Weimar Republic under Friedrich Ebert a ...
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...
.
Photo gallery
Bischwiller 15.JPG, Ancient timber-framed pharmacy
Bischwiller 22.JPG, Saint-Augustin church
Bischwiller 03.JPG, Bischwiller town hall
Bischwiller 17.JPG, Protestant temple: tombstone of
John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
John I of Zweibrücken (known as the Lame; german: Pfalzgraf Johann I von Zweibrücken; 8 May 1550 – 12 August 1604) was Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken during 1569–1604.
He was born in Meisenheim as the second son of Wolfgang, Co ...