Guebwiller (; Alsatian: Gàwiller ; ) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It was a sub-prefecture of the department until 2015.Décret n° 2014-1720 du 29 décembre 2014 portant suppression des arrondissements de Guebwiller et de Ribeauvillé (département du Haut-Rhin)
It is situated northwest of Mulhouse at the foot of the Vosges mountains. The Ballon de Guebwiller, the highest point in the Vosges, lies to the west of the town.
As of 2023, the population of the commune was 11,243. It is the centre of an urban area with about 29,000 inhabitants.
History Guebweiler, as Gebweiler, is mentioned as early as 774. It belonged to the religious foundation of Murbach, and in 1759 the abbots chose it for their residence. In 1789, at the outbreak of the French Revolution, the monastic buildings were laid in ruins, and, though the archives were rescued and removed to Colmar, the library perished.
Geography Climate Guebwiller has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Guebwiller is . The average annual rainfall is with December 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 Guebwiller was on 27 June 2026; the lowest temperature ever recorded was on 20 December 2009.
Population
People Guebwiller was the birthplace of
Émile Keller (1820-1909) Niklaus Riggenbach (1817-1899), engineer
Théodore Deck (1823-1891), ceramist
Gustave Schlumberger (1844-1929), historian, Byzantinist, numismatist
Jean Schlumberger (1877-1968), publisher and writer Conrad Schlumberger (1878-1936), co-founder of Schlumberger Charles Hueber (1883-1943), politician Marcel Schlumberger (1884-1953), co-founder of Schlumberger
Al Weill (1893-1969), boxing manager
Alfred Kastler (1902-1984), physicist Émile Baas (1906-1984), essayist
Eugène Ehrhart (1906-2000), mathematician Armand Walter (1908-1995) Robert Schilling (historian) (1913–2004),
Katia Krafft (1942-1991), volcanologist
Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin
Twin towns
Guebwiller is twinned with: Lucerne (Switzerland) Castelfiorentino (Italy)
Points of interest
Romanesque and early gothic church, Église Saint-Léger Gothic former Dominican abbey Les Dominicains, now used as a cultural center. Early Renaissance townhall (Hôtel de ville) Neoclassical church Église Notre-Dame, the largest Neoclassical church in Alsace Musée Théodore Deck et des pays du Florival, the largest museum in Haut-Rhin outside Colmar and Mulhouse Parc de la Marseillaise Synagogue of Guebwiller
See also Communes of the Haut-Rhin département
References
External links
Official website Homepage of the Musée du Florival Wikipedia page for Église Notre Dame The Florivaliens homepage