ClasséChurch · protected 1842Église Saint-LégerPhoto: © Ralph Hammann - Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ancien couvent des Dominicains · Photo: Thomas Bresson · CC BY 3.015historic monuments
History of Guebwiller · Monuments historiques
15 historic monuments, 5 classé
For every 10,000 residents Guebwiller counts 13 monuments, more per resident than 90% of compared French towns, against 2.5 in the median compared French town. Guebwiller’s oldest monuments date from the 12th century. 14 of Guebwiller’s monuments are in our photos.
Monuments historiques
15
13 per 10,000 residents
median compared town 2.5
median compared town 2.5
Classé
5
the highest protection
Inscrit
10
the second level
Oldest part
12th c.
of any listed monument
Homes before 1919
15%
median compared town 7.4%
In pictures
Guebwiller in 14 photos
Nearly every classé monument, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Hôtel de villeClassé
AbbayeClassé
Ruines du château de HugsteinClassé
Église Saint-LégerClassé
Ancien hôtel du Grand-DoyennéInscrit+9See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its license; names open the monument’s page.
Map
Where Guebwiller’s monuments stand
Every monument with a point on the ministry’s list; the larger, darker dots are classé.
ClasséInscrit
Tap a dot to open the monument’s page: its record, photo and the monuments around it.
15 monuments by protection
5 Classé10 Inscrit
Classé is the higher protection: any work on the building needs the State’s permission. Work on an inscrit building must be declared to the State in advance. Around both, building work in sight of the monument (usually within 500 m) needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
Points as the ministry gives them: a monument spread over several plots has one point. 1 monument has no point on the map.
Classé
5 classé monuments in Guebwiller
Classé is France’s highest protection for a building, held by about a third of the monuments on the list. 3 of the 5 are protected in part only (a façade, a roof, a room). Each card opens the monument’s page.
ClasséConvent · protected 1920Ancien couvent des DominicainsPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Thomas Bresson · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséTown hall · protected 1975Hôtel de villePart of the building is protectedPhoto: © Ralph Hammann - Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséCastle · protected 1898Ruines du château de HugsteinPhoto: Rémi Stosskopf Original uploader was Florival fr at fr.wikipedia · CC BY 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséAbbey · protected 1841Abbaye, place Jeanne d'ArcPart of the building is protectedPhoto: © Ralph Hammann - Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Inscrit
10 inscrit monuments in Guebwiller
Inscrit is the second level of protection: the building is worth keeping, and any work on it must be declared.
InscritChapel · protected 1991Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-SehringPhoto: Rauenstein · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InscritTown house · protected 1935Ancien hôtel du Grand-DoyennéPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Thomas Bresson · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Inscrit
InscritSynagogue · protected 2025Synagogue et maison du rabbinPart of the building is protectedPhoto: CIHR68 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InscritMonument · protected 2013Parc de la MarseillaisePhoto: © Ralph Hammann - Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InscritHouse · protected 2011Maison, 2, 4 rue des BlésPhoto: © Ralph Hammann - Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InscritBuilding · protected 1975Immeuble, 54 rue de la RépubliquePart of the building is protectedPhoto: © Ralph Hammann - Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InscritHouse · protected 1932Maison, 45 rue de la RépubliquePart of the building is protectedPhoto: Thomas Bresson · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InscritHouse · protected 1935Maison, 2 rue de RathsamhausenPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Thomas Bresson · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Building · protected 1975Immeuble, 104 rue de la RépubliquePart of the building is protected
What’s protected
Houses and homes are the largest group in Guebwiller
Each monument under the main domain Mérimée gives it.
Houses & homes7
Religious buildings5
Public & civic2
Houses & homes: 7 of 15 monuments (47%). 5 are religious buildings, 3 of them classé.
Mérimée files each monument under one main domain: a château with its chapel counts once. 1 has no domain on the list.
How old
How old Guebwiller’s monuments are
Each monument once, by the oldest part the list dates.
Prehistory & Antiquity to the 4th c.0
Middle Ages 5th–15th c.2
16th to 18th century Renaissance to Revolution8
19th century 1801–19001
20th century and later since 19011
2 of 12 dated monuments have parts from before 1500. The oldest dated: Église Saint-Léger (12th c.). 3 monuments have no date on the list.
When protected
3 of Guebwiller’s monuments were protected in 1975
Monuments by the year they were first protected.
1840186018801900192019401960198020002020
The first was protected in 1841. 3 were protected in 1975 alone. 3 have been added since 2011.
Age of homes
15% of homes in Guebwiller were built before 1919
Main homes by when they were finished, beside the median compared French town (the tick).
15%
Before 1919
16%
1919–45
22%
1946–70
30%
1971–90
13%
1991–2005
4.4%
2006 on
GuebwillerMedian compared French town
15% of its main homes were built before 1919; the median compared French town has 7.4%. More of them were finished between 1971 and 1990 than in any other period (30%).
INSEE, census 2023: main homes (résidences principales) only; second homes and empty homes aren’t dated.
Born before 1900
14 people born in Guebwiller before 1900
Their lives on one line.
François Joseph Rudler
Niklaus Riggenbach
Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin
Théodore Deck
Charles Kreutzberger
Joseph Sansboeuf
Jean Schlumberger
Conrad Schlumberger
Jean-Baptiste Beck
Charles Hueber
Marcel Schlumberger
Louis Gava
Marie-Louise Weber
Émile Storck
175017751800182518501875190019251950
NR
Niklaus Riggenbach1817–1899 · Swiss engineer
JB
Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin1821–1910 · French composer and music publisher
TD
Théodore Deck1823–1891 · ceramic artist
JS
Jean Schlumberger1877–1968 · French writer, journalist and poet
CH
Charles Hueber1883–1943 · Alsatian politician
FJ
François Joseph Rudler1757–1837 · French jurist, lawyer and judge
CK
Charles Kreutzberger1829–1904 · French painter
JS
Joseph Sansboeuf1848–1938 · French architect
Everyone born in Guebwiller Birthplaces from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia.
Towns its size
Guebwiller has the 5th most monuments of 41 towns its size
Compared French towns of 11,000 to 11,500 residents, by historic monuments.
Guebwiller15
#5 of 41for monuments per resident (13 per 10,000). Most per resident: Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Briançon and La Hague.
The median town of these has 2. 13 of the 41 have none.
Neighbors
Historic monuments in the towns around Guebwiller
| Town | Residents | Monuments | Classé | Protected area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guebwiller | 11,243 | 15 | 5 | — |
| Buhl | 3,100 | 3 | 1 | — |
| Soultz-Haut-Rhin | 7,012 | 10 | 3 | — |
| Issenheim | 3,502 | 2 | 1 | — |
| Bollwiller | 4,184 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Rouffach | 4,238 | 27 | 7 | — |
| Staffelfelden | 4,072 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Guebwiller in brief
For its size, Guebwiller has more historic monuments than 90% of compared French towns. All told, the list holds 15 historic monuments, 5 of them classé, including Ancien couvent des Dominicains. Of its homes, 15% were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town. Only 4 of the 41 towns nearest its size have more historic monuments.
Of the 12 with a date, 8 come from the 16th to 18th centuries. The oldest is Église Saint-Léger, from the 12th century. Niklaus Riggenbach (1817), Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin (1821) and Théodore Deck (1823) are among the 14 people born here before 1900.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Monuments historiques. France protects buildings at two levels. Classé, the higher (about a third of the list), means any work needs the State’s permission; inscrit means work must be declared to the State in advance. The Culture ministry’s Mérimée base lists every protected building, and this page counts them.
- Partly protected. Many entries protect part of a building only (its façades and roofs, a staircase, a painted room). Each counts as one monument, like a fully protected one.
- Where a monument is counted. In the commune named on its protection, moved to today’s commune where communes have since merged. A monument listed for several communes counts in each.
- Sites patrimoniaux remarquables. Since 2016 France’s protected historic areas (the former secteurs sauvegardés, ZPPAUP and AVAP) share one name. Inside one, building work follows the area’s plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
- What isn’t here. Protected objects (furniture, organs, paintings), old buildings with no protection, UNESCO World Heritage listings and labels such as “Plus Beaux Villages de France” aren’t on this list, so this page doesn’t count them.
- No History Grade yet. Everything on this page is described, not graded: France’s History Grade isn’t built yet.
Questions about the history of Guebwiller
How many historic monuments are there in Guebwiller?
The Culture ministry lists 15 historic monuments in Guebwiller: 5 classé and 10 inscrit.
Which monuments in Guebwiller are classé?
5, among them Église Saint-Léger, Ancien couvent des Dominicains, Hôtel de ville and Ruines du château de Hugstein.
How old are the monuments of Guebwiller?
The oldest parts of its listed monuments date from the 12th century.
When were monuments in Guebwiller first protected?
The first in 1841, the latest in 2025.
How old are the homes in Guebwiller?
15% of its main homes were built before 1919 (median compared French town: 7.4%).
France has no History Grade yet: this page describes, it doesn’t grade.
Sources: Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée base on POP (immeubles protégés au titre des monuments historiques), October 2026 · Ministère de la Culture, sites patrimoniaux remarquables, October 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (main homes by build period) · Wikidata and Wikipedia (people born here) · Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (photos of the monuments, each with its own credit and license) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 9, 2026. 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.