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Guide to Haut-Rhin Department ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

Haut-Rhin Department

History

Haut-Rhin is a department of the Alsace region France. It is one of the original 83 departments that were created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It borders on Switzerland to the south and Germany to the east. Its name means Upper Rhine. Haut-Rhin is the smaller and less populated of the two departments of the former administrative Alsace region. Its boundaries have been modified many times:

  • 1798, it absorbed Mulhouse, formerly a free city, and the last Swiss enclave in the south of Alsace;
  • 1800, it absorbed the whole département of Mont-Terrible;
  • 1814, it lost the territories which had been part of Mont-Terrible, which were returned to Switzerland, except for the old principality of Montbéliard;
  • 1816, it lost Montbéliard, which was transferred to the département of Doubs;
  • 1871, it was mostly annexed by Germany (Treaty of Frankfurt). The remaining French part formed the Territoire de Belfort in 1922;
  • 1919, it was reverted to France (Treaty of Versailles) but remains administratively separated from Belfort.
  • 1940, it was annexed de facto by Nazi Germany.
  • 1944, it was recovered by France.

On 1 January 2021, the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin will merge into the European Collectivity of Alsace. [1]

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Archives départementales du Haut-Rhin
Site de Colmar
Bâtiment M / Cité administrative
3 Rue Fleischhauer
68000 Colmar,
France
Telephone: +33 (0)3 89 21 97 00
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Archives d'Alsace
Website

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FranceGenWeb Cousins 68, Haut-Rhin

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References

  1. Wikipedia contributors, "Haut-Rhin," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haut-Rhin (accessed June 22, 2019).