Arrondissement of Ribeauvillé


The arrondissement of Ribeauvillé is a former arrondissement of France in the Haut-Rhin department in the Alsace region. In 2015 it was merged into the new arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé. It had 32 communes, and its population was 50,005.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Ribeauvillé, and their INSEE codes, were:
1. Ammerschwihr 2. Aubure 3. Beblenheim 4. Bennwihr
5. Bergheim 6. Fréland 7. Guémar 8. Hunawihr
9. Illhaeusern 10. Ingersheim 11. Katzenthal 12. Kaysersberg
13. Kientzheim 14. Labaroche 15. Lapoutroie 16. Le Bonhomme
17. Lièpvre 18. Mittelwihr 19. Niedermorschwihr 20. Orbey
21. Ostheim 22. Ribeauvillé 23. Riquewihr 24. Rodern
25. Rombach-le-Franc 26. Rorschwihr 27. Saint-Hippolyte 28. Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines
29. Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 30. Sigolsheim 31. Thannenkirch 32. Zellenberg

History

The arrondissement of Ribeauvillé was created in 1919. It was disbanded in 2015. As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Ribeauvillé were, as of January 2015:
  1. Kaysersberg
  2. Lapoutroie
  3. Ribeauvillé
  4. Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines