Ostwald invested more per resident in 2025 than 83% of compared communes
Dylan Hirn has been mayor of Ostwald since March 28, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, OSTWALD DEMAIN won 26 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.5% of the votes. Ostwald is part of the Eurométropole de Strasbourg.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Bas-Rhin and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Ostwald’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 4 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, OSTWALD DEMAIN came first with 53.5% and took 26 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 7. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
50.5% of registered voters in Ostwald voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 76% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Bas-Rhin was 51.8%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Ostwald owed €13.1M at the end of 2025, €959 per resident: higher than in 66% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 117% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
A big year for investment
Ostwald invested €713 per resident (buildings, roads, equipment), 46% of its spending: higher than in 83% of compared French communes (France median €403). Investment swings from year to year with projects. The commune’s money ↓
Results as the Interior ministry published them; accounts from the DGFiP via OFGL. Nothing here is graded.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- OSTWALD DEMAIN262 community seats
- TOUJOURS POUR OSTWALD51 community seat
- ENSEMBLE POUR OSTWALD20 community seats
As elected in the second round, March 22, 2026.
The list that comes first gets half the seats; the rest are shared in proportion among the lists with 5% or more, the winner included. So the winning list always has a majority. The same vote gave Ostwald 3 seats on the council of the Eurométropole de Strasbourg (community seats).
Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.
4 authorities share the work
The commune is the tier closest to residents; the intercommunality, the département and the région do the rest.
Births, marriages and deaths, the electoral roll, nursery and primary schools, local roads, planning permission, the municipal police, and what else the council takes on.
Mayor: Dylan Hirn · 33 councilors
The services its communes share: usually waste collection, economic development and planning documents; often water and local buses.
Social aid (RSA, care for older and disabled people, child protection), collèges, the département’s roads, and funding for fire and rescue.
Lycées, regional trains (TER) and coaches, economic development and job training.
Who to ask
The usual split of powers (service-public.fr); an intercommunality’s exact remit varies, so check its website for waste, water and buses.
Membership: COG 2026 (INSEE); intercommunality type: BANATIC, January 2025. What each tier does: service-public.fr.
From the mayor to the intercommunality
The officials as the Interior ministry’s register lists them, and the council by list.
- 1Mayorsince March 28, 2026Dylan Hirn
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilMichel HartmannNouria BoukhchamBruno BoulalaChloé MulardYves FeldLouise NicolasJacques WalterViolaine Flurer+1 more
- 3Ostwald municipal council33 seats by listOSTWALD DEMAIN 26 · TOUJOURS POUR OSTWALD 5 · ENSEMBLE POUR OSTWALD 2
- 4Eurométropole de StrasbourgOstwald holds 3 seatsCommunity councilors are drawn from the council lists in the same vote.
Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.
The 33 members of the Ostwald municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Dylan Hirn | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Michel Hartmann | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nouria Boukhcham | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Bruno Boulala | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Chloé Mulard | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Yves Feld | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Louise Nicolas | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jacques Walter | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Violaine Flurer | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean Wechsler | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Dylan Hirn | Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Michel Hartmann | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Nouria Boukhcham | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Bruno Boulala | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Chloé Mulard | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Yves Feld | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Louise Nicolas | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jacques Walter | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Violaine Flurer | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Jean Wechsler | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 28, 2026 |
| Alain Ammerich | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Fabienne Baas | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Michel Bentz | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jean-Michel Borell | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gilbert Braida | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Emmanuelle de Gail | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Gérard de Gail | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Evelyne Dessalle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vincent Florange | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Julie Follenius | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Arnaud Frey | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Geiger | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Hoffmann | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Christelle Hubler | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Sylvie Krieger | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Muriel Pelascini | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maël Petit | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Delphine Rideau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Serge Scotti | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Céline Stocky | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Mireille Straubhaar | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Claudine Tollant | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Vincent Willer | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
Names and offices as the Interior ministry’s national register of elected officials (RNE) published them on August 11, 2026, written as it writes them. Public role only. Later resignations and replacements aren’t shown.
The council: same source as Who represents Ostwald, above.
How Ostwald voted in March 2026
4 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
4,101 votes cast for a list
4,202 of 8,416 registered voters in Ostwald voted.
64 blank and 37 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
4,162 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
4,247 of 8,413 registered voters in Ostwald voted.
67 blank and 18 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
Turnout, first round · March 15, 2026
Shares are of the votes cast for a list, leaving out blank and spoilt ballots. Lists in vote order; the colors only tell the lists apart.
2026 elections: same source as Who’s in charge, above.
Ostwald spends €1,536 per resident a year
The commune’s consolidated accounts: main and annexed budgets, transfers between them removed.
Per resident, 2025 · against compared communes
Spending and debt per resident, 2018 to 2025
Ostwald owed €13.1M at the end of 2025, €959 per resident, higher than in 66% of compared French communes, equal to 117% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,536 | €713 | €959 | €13.1M |
| 2024 | €997 | €180 | €399 | €5.4M |
| 2023 | €898 | €96 | €392 | €5.1M |
| 2022 | €890 | €159 | €474 | €6.1M |
| 2021 | €813 | €125 | €552 | €7M |
| 2020 | €739 | €66 | €623 | €7.9M |
| 2019 | €821 | €78 | €687 | €8.8M |
| 2018 | €814 | €80 | €778 | €9.7M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 16th highest debt per resident of 41 communes its size
The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.
Lowest: Berre-l'Étang, €1. Highest: Juvignac, €1,919.
Have a say in Ostwald
French citizens register online or at the town hall; citizens of other EU countries can vote in municipal elections too.
service-public.fr ↗See where you’re registered and which polling station is yours.
service-public.fr ↗Council meetings are public; the agenda and minutes are posted at the town hall and usually on its website.
service-public.fr ↗Opening hours, address and phone number of the mairie of Ostwald in the public services directory.
lannuaire.service-public.fr ↗Who can stand, how lists are formed and the deadlines, from the Interior ministry.
interieur.gouv.fr ↗What this data can and can’t tell you
- Mayors and councilors. From the Interior ministry’s national register of elected officials (RNE) as published on August 11, 2026: name, office and start dates, nothing else. The register counts a mayor as a councilor too; the page counts each person once. It isn’t a live roll: resignations and replacements after that date aren’t shown, and no party is inferred for any official.
- How the council is elected. Since March 2026 every commune elects its council from lists (a 2025 law extended list voting to communes under 1,000). A list with more than half the votes in the first round wins; otherwise lists with 10% or more can go on to a second round, where the list ahead wins. It gets half the seats, and the rest are shared in proportion among lists with 5% or more. The council then elects the mayor and the deputy mayors.
- The label beside a list. The political nuance the prefecture gave the list for the ministry’s results (Divers droite, Union de la gauche…), shown as published. It isn’t the list’s own description; many lists, most in small communes, have none.
- The commune’s money. OFGL’s consolidated accounts from the DGFiP, 2018 to 2025; 2025 is provisional. Spending and investment leave out loan repayments; running costs are part of spending. Debt is what was owed at the end of the year.
- Per resident. Divided by the DGFiP’s population for that year (population totale, which counts some people, such as boarding students, in two communes), so it can differ from the census figure elsewhere on the site.
- The medians. Beside the town’s figure, the median of compared communes in its département and in France (those with an overall grade). A commune’s spending follows its size and its role: one that runs a pool or a theater for the villages around it spends more per resident.
Questions about Ostwald’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Ostwald?
Dylan Hirn, mayor since March 28, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Ostwald have?
The Ostwald municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Ostwald?
OSTWALD DEMAIN, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 53.5% of the votes; it holds 26 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Ostwald?
50.5% of registered voters voted in the first round on March 15, 2026; the median of compared French communes was 57.4%.
When are the next municipal elections in Ostwald?
Councils are elected for six years, so the next general municipal elections are due in March 2032. A council can be re-elected sooner if it loses too many members.
How much debt does Ostwald have?
€13.1M at the end of 2025, €959 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Ostwald part of?
Ostwald is part of the Eurométropole de Strasbourg, which runs the services its communes share.
Sources: Interior ministry RNE, August 11, 2026 · Interior ministry, municipal results 2026 · OFGL consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 · INSEE COG 2026 and BANATIC (January 2025) for the intercommunality. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.