page_title: Fouchy
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Fouchy / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Ancienne habitation du XIXe siècle à Fouchy
context_page_description: Fouchy is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
  It shares its latitude with the southern suburbs of Paris being located in the south-western corner of the department.
context_section_description: Located on the left bank of the little River Giessen, Fouchy occupies a site of 787 hectares embraced on one side by the river and faced on its north side by wooded hills culminating in the peaks of the Guichat and Rougerain, respectively 623 meters and 650 meters above sea level.   The altitude of the village itself is very varied, but 300 meters is a reasonable average (median) value.   The southern part of the village rests on the dividing ridge between the valleys of the Giessen and of the River Liepvrette:  this ridge rises from 690 meters in the east to 830 meters at the Schnarupt peak, dominating the hamlet of Hingie in the adjacent commune of Rombach-le-Franc.   The ridge is traversed by the 608 meter high Fouchy which connects the two valleys.
  From outside the village, it is dominated by the spire of the church, and this is the focus from which Fouchy's streets radiate.  One route runs to the bottom of the valley, and leads out of the village towards Saint-Dié: scattered farms comprise a few hamlets some of the larger ones being La Combre, Berlicombelle, Noirceux, Rouhu, Schlingoutte, and Schnarupt.   To the west, along the departmental road D39, is the village of Urbeis while three kilometers to the east, the same road leads to Villé.
caption: Fouchy: recently restored nineteenth century farmhouse
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