History of Haut-Rhin

historical provinces of the House of Habsburg

{| class="wikitable" align="right" |- ! colspan="2" style="background:#6cf;"| Sundgau |- | Land Area || 663 km2 |- | Population || 61 841 inhabitants (1999) |- | Capital || Altkirch |- | Cantons || 4 |- | Communes || 112 |} Sundgau ( or ; ) is a geographical territory in the southern Alsace region (Haut Rhin and Belfort), on the eastern edge of France. The name is derived from Alemannic German Sunt-gowe ("South shire"), denoting an Alemannic county in the Old High German period. The principal city and historical capital is Altkirch.

countship

historical region of France, landgraviate of the Holy Roman Empire

countship and part of Holy Roman Empire

Upper Alsace (, ) was the southern part of the historical region Alsace. From 1871 to 1918, Bezirk Oberelsaß was a district (Bezirk) in the southern part of the province of Alsace–Lorraine in the German Empire. The district was formed on 30 December 1871 from the former French département of Haut-Rhin, to which it corresponds exactly. Its capital was Colmar. It was divided into the districts (Kreise) of: Altkirch within the Sundgau Colmar Gebweiler (Guebwiller) Mülhausen (Mulhouse) Rappoltsweiler (Ribeauvillé) Thann