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Location within Grand Est region
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| Coordinates: 48°43′18″N 7°21′43″E / 48.7217°N 7.3619°ECoordinates: 48°43′18″N 7°21′43″E / 48.7217°N 7.3619°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Canton | Saverne | |
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| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Richard Beckerich | |
| Area1 | 1.25 km2 (0.48 sq mi) | |
| Population (2006)2 | 386 | |
| • Density | 310/km2 (800/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 67161 /67700 | |
| Elevation | 191–240 m (627–787 ft) | |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Gottenhouse (German: Gottenhausen) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
The current name dates from February 21, 1948. The previous name was Gottenhausen.
Gottenhouse is part of the Marmoutier canton and in the Arrondissement of Saverne. The commune is one of the 27 members of the .
The commune is small, with just 1.25 square kilometres of land. Gottenhouse is positioned on the left bank of the little River Mosselbach, 2 kilometres to the south of Saverne, between the Vosges Mountains and the RN 4 trunk road.
The soil here is not particularly fertile, which may explain why Gottenhouse shows no evidence of having been settled until well after the Western Roman empire period. The village appears as Godenhusa in a 10th-century list of the assets of the Abbey of Marmoutier. The settlement appears to have been administratively independent at this stage, but by the beginning of the next century Gottenhouse and Otterswiller had become part of a single administrative unit. The name of the settlement changed only slightly over the years, to Gotzhuse (1363), Gotenhusen (1371), Gottenhusen (1427), Gottenhausen (1520) and in Alsatian Gottehüse. After 1871, with the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine by Germany, many towns and villages adopted rediscovered German language names, and this is when the name Gottenhausen became mainstream. The adoption of a francophone version of the name, Gottenhouse, dates from 1948.
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