commune
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in the
Haut-Rhin
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department
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in
Grand Est
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Rhine Franconian: ''Groß Oschte''; german: Großer Osten ; en, "Great East") is an administrative region in Northeastern France. It superseded three former administrat ...
in north-eastern
France
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It is a completely fortified town and has a late-medieval church, as well as surviving towers and walls. The entire population was wiped out by two wars and the plague in the 17th-18th centuries. To replace the population, thousands of people from other countries were invited to immigrate to Bergheim. The majority of people who immigrated at that times were
Swiss
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* Swiss people
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,
German
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Austrian
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, or
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.
The city economy is based on
tourism
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and the
viticulture
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that surrounds the town.
Geography
Climate
Bergheim has a
oceanic climate
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(
Köppen climate classification
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''Cfb''). The average annual temperature in Bergheim is . The average annual rainfall is with May as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Bergheim was on 13 August 2003; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 20 December 2009.
Gallery
File:Synagogue de Bergheim.JPG, Bergheim synagogue