Chalampé (; ) is a
commune in the
Haut-Rhin
Haut-Rhin (); Alsatian: ''Owerelsà ss'' or '; , . is a department in the Grand Est region, France, bordering both Germany and Switzerland. It is named after the river Rhine; its name means Upper Rhine. Haut-Rhin is the smaller and less pop ...
department in
Alsace
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in north-eastern
France
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, just across the river
Rhine
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from
Neuenburg, Germany.
The town was founded by soldiers of
Marshal Dubourg who in 1709 had beaten the Austrians under
Count Claude Florimond de Mercy
Count Claudius Florimund de Mercy (1666 – 29 June 1734) was an Imperial field marshal, born at Longwy in Lorraine, now in France. His grandfather was the Bavarian field marshal Franz Freiherr von Mercy.
Mercy entered the Austrian ar ...
in the
War of the Spanish Succession
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. It is located in an area called ''Eichwald'' (oak forest) by the otherwise German-speaking population of the Alsace and bears its French name since 1735. Before
Johann Gottfried Tulla and others straightened the
Rhine
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in the 19th century, the river had changed its course several times, moving the border. Thus, the village was sometimes considered to be part of Germany.
Population
See also
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Communes of the Haut-Rhin department
The following is a list of the 366 Communes of France, communes of the French Departments of France, department of Haut-Rhin.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2025):
References
External links
Official website
Communes of Haut-Rhin
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