Hurtigheim

Hurtigheim
Coat of arms of Hurtigheim Coat of arms
Hurtigheim
Location within Alsace region Hurtigheim
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Saverne
Canton	Bouxwiller
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Alfred Forrler
Area1	4.63 km2 (1.79 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	501
• Density	110/km2 (280/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	67214 / 67117
Elevation	153–179 m (502–587 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Hurtigheim (German: Hürtigheim) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine in north-eastern France.

Hurtigheim has been built along an old Roman road leading from Strasbourg to Saverne.

Notable people

Jean-Jacques Urban, a prominent politician of the Democratic Republican Alliance in the 1930s and 1940s, was born at Hurtigheim on 26 October 1875. The party emerged discredited from the Vichy period, but Urban himself did not participate in the voting of full powers to Philippe Pétain in July 1940.

See also

• Communes of the Bas-Rhin department
• Community of Communes Ackerland
• Kochersberg

References

• INSEE commune file