Harskirchen

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Commune in Grand Est, France

Coat of arms

Location of Harskirchen

(2022–2026) Benoît Boyon^[1]Area

14.42 km² (5.57 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

888 • Density62/km² (160/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

67183 /67260

Elevation213–277 m (699–909 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Harskirchen (French pronunciation: [aʁskiʁʃən]) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France.^[3]

Location

Harskirchen lies in the valley of the River Saar in the extreme northwest of the cultural and historical region of Alsace. The Canal des houillères de la Sarre, which connects the Canal de la Marne au Rhin in Gondrexange to the canalized Sarre in Sarreguemines, passes through the commune, west of the village centre.

Churches

Like many communities in French Alsace and the German upper Rhineland, Harskirhen has both a Lutheran and a Catholic church. The Lutheran church dates from the eighteenth century and is decorated in the Baroque style, while the nineteenth-century Catholic church is distinguished by its neo-Gothic tower.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	742	—
1975	811	+1.28%
1982	821	+0.18%
1990	871	+0.74%
1999	847	−0.31%
2009	868	+0.25%
2014	849	−0.44%
2020	882	+0.64%
Source: INSEE^[4]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 6 June 2023.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ INSEE commune file
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE