Soultz-Haut-Rhin

The town of Soultz-Haut-Rhin has an enclave located northeast of Goldbach-Altenbach. The town of Soultz was built around a salted water source from which originates its name. ==History==

The origins of Soultz go back to the 7th century. 667 : the written name of Sulza (salted source) is mentioned in a donation from Adalrich, Duke of Alsace, father of Saint Odile, of the bann of Soultz to the convent of Ebersmunster. The Soultz Railway was a long military light railway with a track gauge of that the Germans built and operated during World War I from Soultz to the Niederwald terminus below the Hartmannswillerkopf near Wattwiller. ==Demography==

Soultz has houses from the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. • The Church of Saint-Maurice is a Gothic building (1270–1489) • Château de Buchenek is a 13th-century castle, now a museum • La Nef des Jouets (The Toys Vessel, museum of toys) • The 1860 town hall is a Renaissance Revival building ==People==

• Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, who married Catherine Gontcharoff, eldest sister of Alexander Pushkin's wife, and killed Pushkin in a duel. • Auguste-César West (1810–1880), prefect of Haut-Rhin from 1848 to 1850, then prefect of Bas-Rhin until 1855 and of Haute-Garonne until 1859. • Bernard Genghini, footballer, born in 1958 in Soultz • Pierre Villon (1901–1980), whose real name was Pierre Ginsburger, was a French political figure who took part in the Resistance. • Katia Krafft, volcanologist, born in 1942 in Soultz. Wife of the volcanologist Maurice Krafft. Both of them were carried off in 1991 by a pyroclastical flow on the sides of Mount Unzen (Japan). ==See also==