Harskirchen
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Harskirchen | |
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 The Catholic church and Mairie in Harskirchen | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Harskirchen  | |
  Harskirchen  Harskirchen | |
| Coordinates: 48°56′01″N 7°02′21″E / 48.9336°N 7.0392°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Bas-Rhin |
| Arrondissement | Saverne |
| Canton | Ingwiller |
| Intercommunality | CC Alsace Bossue |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2022–2026) | Benoît Boyon[1] |
Area 1 | 14.42 km2 (5.57 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 894 |
| • Density | 62/km2 (160/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 67183 /67260 |
| Elevation | 213–277 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]
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, Harskirchen 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.
