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Bergheim | |
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 Porte Haute (Upper Gate) in Bergheim | |
.svg) Coat of arms | |
 Location of Bergheim | |
  Bergheim  Bergheim | |
| Coordinates:48°12′21″N7°21′45″E / 48.2058°N 7.3625°E /48.2058; 7.3625 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Haut-Rhin |
| Arrondissement | Colmar-Ribeauvillé |
| Canton | Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines |
| Intercommunality | Pays de Ribeauvillé |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Elisabeth Schneider[1] |
Area 1 | 19.16 km2 (7.40 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 2,069 |
| • Density | 108.0/km2 (279.7/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 68028 /68750 |
| Elevation | 172–733 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 acommune in theHaut-Rhindepartment inGrand Est in north-easternFrance.[3]
It is a completely fortified town and hasa 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 wereSwiss,German,Hungarian,Austrian, orRomanian.
The city economy is based ontourism and theviticulture that surrounds the town. It is a member ofLes Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association.
Bergheim has anoceanic climate (Köppen climate classificationCfb). 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) | |||||||||||||
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| 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) |
| Averageprecipitation 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] | |||||||||||||
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 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] | ||
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