Bergheim, Haut-Rhin

Commune in Grand Est, France

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Commune in Grand Est, France

Coat of arms

Location of Bergheim

(2020–2026) Elisabeth Schneider^[1]Area

19.16 km² (7.40 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

2,066 • Density110/km² (280/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

68028 /68750

Elevation172–733 m (564–2,405 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bergheim (French pronunciation: [bɛʁɡaim] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.^[3]

It is a completely fortified town and has a late-medieval church, as well as surviving towers and walls. The entire population was wiped out by two wars and the plague in the 17th-18th centuries. To replace the population, thousands of people from other countries were invited to immigrate to Bergheim. The majority of people who immigrated at that times were Swiss, German, Hungarian, Austrian, or Romanian.

The city economy is based on tourism and the viticulture that surrounds the town.

Geography

Climate

Bergheim has a oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Bergheim is 11.0 °C (51.8 °F). The average annual rainfall is 677.6 mm (26.68 in) with May as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 20.0 °C (68.0 °F), and lowest in January, at around 2.0 °C (35.6 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Bergheim was 38.9 °C (102.0 °F) on 13 August 2003; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −16.9 °C (1.6 °F) on 20 December 2009.

Climate data for Bergheim (1981–2010 averages, extremes 1987−present)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	17.0 (62.6)	20.8 (69.4)	25.4 (77.7)	29.5 (85.1)	33.5 (92.3)	36.9 (98.4)	37.3 (99.1)	38.9 (102.0)	31.8 (89.2)	28.7 (83.7)	23.0 (73.4)	20.1 (68.2)	38.9 (102.0)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	4.7 (40.5)	6.8 (44.2)	11.0 (51.8)	15.0 (59.0)	19.8 (67.6)	22.8 (73.0)	24.9 (76.8)	24.8 (76.6)	20.2 (68.4)	14.9 (58.8)	8.4 (47.1)	4.9 (40.8)	14.9 (58.8)
Daily mean °C (°F)	2.0 (35.6)	3.5 (38.3)	7.2 (45.0)	10.6 (51.1)	15.1 (59.2)	18.0 (64.4)	20.0 (68.0)	19.8 (67.6)	15.7 (60.3)	11.2 (52.2)	5.6 (42.1)	2.4 (36.3)	11.0 (51.8)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	−0.7 (30.7)	0.2 (32.4)	3.3 (37.9)	6.2 (43.2)	10.4 (50.7)	13.2 (55.8)	15.0 (59.0)	14.8 (58.6)	11.2 (52.2)	7.5 (45.5)	2.8 (37.0)	−0.1 (31.8)	7.0 (44.6)
Record low °C (°F)	−15.8 (3.6)	−15.3 (4.5)	−11.1 (12.0)	−2.5 (27.5)	1.6 (34.9)	4.5 (40.1)	7.6 (45.7)	7.0 (44.6)	2.3 (36.1)	−3.3 (26.1)	−8.8 (16.2)	−16.9 (1.6)	−16.9 (1.6)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	40.7 (1.60)	48.1 (1.89)	47.5 (1.87)	45.2 (1.78)	70.3 (2.77)	65.9 (2.59)	69.7 (2.74)	62.3 (2.45)	53.3 (2.10)	64.0 (2.52)	52.7 (2.07)	57.9 (2.28)	677.6 (26.68)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm)	9.0	9.1	10.0	9.4	11.1	10.4	9.7	9.6	8.4	10.1	10.3	10.1	117.2
Source: Meteociel^[4]

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,753	—
1975	1,703	−0.41%
1982	1,774	+0.59%
1990	1,802	+0.20%
1999	1,830	+0.17%
2007	1,860	+0.20%
2012	1,941	+0.86%
2017	2,121	+1.79%
Source: INSEE^[5]

Gallery

Bergheim synagogue

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ INSEE commune file
^ "Normales et records pour Bergheim-Inra (68)". Meteociel. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE