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Chalampé

Chalampé
Chalampé / Eichwald ()
Chalampé, Église Saint-Wendelin.jpg
Coat of arms of Chalampé
Coat of arms
Chalampé is located in France
Chalampé
Chalampé
Coordinates: 47°49′N 7°32′E / 47.82°N 7.54°E / 47.82; 7.54Coordinates: 47°49′N 7°32′E / 47.82°N 7.54°E / 47.82; 7.54
Country France
Region Grand Est
Department Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement Mulhouse
Canton Rixheim
Intercommunality Porte de France Rhin Sud
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Martine Laemlin-Delmotte
Area1 4.77 km2 (1.84 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 906
 • Density 190/km2 (490/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 68064 /68490
Dialling codes 0389
Elevation 211–217 m (692–712 ft)
(avg. 215 m or 705 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Chalampé (German: Eichwald) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France, just across the Rhein River 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 in the War of the Spanish Succession. 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 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.


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