Guebwiller

The Ballon de Guebwiller, the highest point in the Vosges, lies 8 km to the west of the town. It is the centre of an urban area with about 29,000 inhabitants.

• Name — Guebwiller • Commune Status — Commune • Image Flag — Flag of Guebwiller.gif • Image Coat Of Arms — Blason ville fr Guebwiller (Haut-Rhin).svg • Arrondissement — Thann-Guebwiller • Canton — Guebwiller • Insee — 68112 • Postal Code — 68500 • Mayor — Francis Kleitz (UDI) • Term — 2020–2026 • Intercommunality — CC de la région de Guebwiller • Elevation M — 300 • Elevation Min M — 254 • Elevation Max M — 620 • Area Km2 — 9.68 • Population — population_total • Population Date — population_as_of • Population Footnotes — population_footnotes Guebwiller (Alsatian: Gàwiller; Gebweiler) 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. It is situated 20 km northwest of Mulhouse at the foot of the Vosges mountains. The Ballon de Guebwiller, the highest point in the Vosges, lies 8 km 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.

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.

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.

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

Guebwiller is twinned with: • Lucerne (Switzerland) • Castelfiorentino (Italy)

• Illustration — Notre-Dame Church • 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