Upper Alsace
Sign in to saveAlso known as Bezirk Oberelsaß
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
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
1 sectionsContents
- References
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
The flag of Oberelsaß is a yellow bar on a red field decorated on each side with three crowns. The combination of this flag with that of Unterelsaß forms the flag of modern Alsace.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Upper Alsace” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations