Arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé

The arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé is an arrondissement of France in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region. Its capital, and prefecture of the department, is the city of Colmar.

History
When the Haut-Rhin department was created on 1790, the arrondissement of Colmar was part of that original department.

In 1871, the Haut-Rhin department became part of Germany. In 1919, Haut-Rhin is again an department when the territory became part of France with 7 arrondissements, including the new arrondissements of Colmar-Ville, Colmar-Campagne and Ribeauvillé. The arrondissements Colmar-Ville and Colmar-Campagne were combined in 1934 to form the arrondissement of Colmar.

In 2015, the arrondissement of Ribeauvillé was eliminated and the name of the arrondissement of Colmar was changed to Colmar-Ribeauvillé.

Geography
The arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé is the most northern of the arrondissements of the Haut-Rhin department. It is bordered to the north by the Bas-Rhin department, to the east by Germany, to the southeast by the Mulhouse arrondissement, to the south by the Thann-Guebwiller arrondissement and to the west by the Vosges department.

The arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé is the largest of the arrondissements of the department with an area of . It has a population of 200,243 inhabitants and a population density of  inhabitants/km².

Composition
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

There are 5 cantons in the arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé:

 Colmar-1 (6804)
 Colmar-2 (6805)
 Ensisheim (6806) (partly)
 Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines (6815)
 Wintzenheim (6816) (partly)

Communes
The arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé has 98 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 Algolsheim (68001)
 Ammerschwihr (68005)
 Andolsheim (68007)
 Appenwihr (68008)
 Artzenheim (68009)
 Aubure (68014)
 Balgau (68016)
 Baltzenheim (68019)
 Beblenheim (68023)
 Bennwihr (68026)
 Bergheim (68028)
 Biesheim (68036)
 Bischwihr (68038)
 Blodelsheim (68041)
 Le Bonhomme (68044)
 Breitenbach-Haut-Rhin (68051)
 Colmar (68066)
 Dessenheim (68069)
 Durrenentzen (68076)
 Eguisheim (68078)
 Eschbach-au-Val (68083)
 Fessenheim (68091)
 Fortschwihr (68095)
 Fréland (68097)
 Geiswasser (68104)
 Griesbach-au-Val (68109)
 Grussenheim (68110)
 Guémar (68113)
 Gunsbach (68117)
 Heiteren (68130)
 Herrlisheim-près-Colmar (68134)
 Hettenschlag (68136)
 Hirtzfelden (68140)
 Hohrod (68142)
 Porte-du-Ried (68143)
 Horbourg-Wihr (68145)
 Houssen (68146)
 Hunawihr (68147)
 Husseren-les-Châteaux (68150)
 Illhaeusern (68153)
 Ingersheim (68155)
 Jebsheim (68157)
 Katzenthal (68161)
 Kaysersberg-Vignoble (68162)
 Kunheim (68172)
 Labaroche (68173)
 Lapoutroie (68175)
 Lièpvre (68185)
 Logelheim (68189)
 Luttenbach-près-Munster (68193)
 Metzeral (68204)
 Mittelwihr (68209)
 Mittlach (68210)
 Muhlbach-sur-Munster (68223)
 Munchhouse (68225)
 Munster (68226)
 Muntzenheim (68227)
 Nambsheim (68230)
 Neuf-Brisach (68231)
 Niedermorschwihr (68237)
 Obermorschwihr (68244)
 Obersaasheim (68246)
 Orbey (68249)
 Ostheim (68252)
 Ribeauvillé (68269)
 Riquewihr (68277)
 Rodern (68280)
 Roggenhouse (68281)
 Rombach-le-Franc (68283)
 Rorschwihr (68285)
 Rustenhart (68290)
 Rumersheim-le-Haut (68291)
 Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines (68294)
 Sainte-Croix-en-Plaine (68295)
 Saint-Hippolyte (68296)
 Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines (68298)
 Sondernach (68311)
 Soultzbach-les-Bains (68316)
 Soultzeren (68317)
 Stosswihr (68329)
 Sundhoffen (68331)
 Thannenkirch (68335)
 Turckheim (68338)
 Urschenheim (68345)
 Vœgtlinshoffen (68350)
 Vogelgrun (68351)
 Volgelsheim (68352)
 Walbach (68354)
 Wasserbourg (68358)
 Weckolsheim (68360)
 Wettolsheim (68365)
 Wickerschwihr (68366)
 Widensolen (68367)
 Wihr-au-Val (68368)
 Wintzenheim (68374)
 Wolfgantzen (68379)
 Zellenberg (68383)
 Zimmerbach (68385)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

 INSEEcode  Commune  Population(2014)  Canton  Intercommunality 68066  Colmar  68,784  Colmar-1, Colmar-2  CA Colmar 68374  Wintzenheim  7,536  Wintzenheim  CA Colmar 68145  Horbourg-Wihr  5,473  Colmar-2  CA Colmar 68298  Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines  5,129  Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines  Val d'Argent 68269  Ribeauvillé  4,740  Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines  Pays de Ribeauvillé 68162  Kaysersberg-Vignoble  4,660  Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines  Vallée de Kaysersberg 68226  Munster  4,645  Wintzenheim  Vallée de Munster 68155  Ingersheim  4,624  Colmar-1  CA Colmar 68338  Turckheim  3,750  Wintzenheim  CA Colmar 68249  Orbey  3,612  Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines  Vallée de Kaysersberg

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Haut-Rhin department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Colmar-Ribeauville