Heiteren

Heiteren

Heiteren
Administration
Country France
Region Alsace
Department Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement Colmar
Canton Neuf-Brisach
Mayor Dominique Schmitt
(2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation 196–209 m (643–686 ft)
(avg. 200 m/660 ft)
Land area1 22.4 km2 (8.6 sq mi)
Population2 890  (2006)
 - Density 40 /km2 (100 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 68130/ 68600
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.

Heiteren is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.

The Song "Ballade von Heiteren" performed by Walter Mossmann is dedicated to the resistance against the construction of the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant in the 1970s. It describes the organisation of the protests in a roundhouse near Heiteren and the violent repression against the protesters, e.g. by burning down the roundhouse.

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