Guebwiller (French: Guebwiller, pronounced: [ɡebvilɛʁ]; Alsatian: Gàwiller [ˈkaːviləʁ]; German: Gebweiler) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine in north-eastern France.
It is situated 20 km (12 mi) northwest of Mulhouse at the foot of the Vosges mountains. The Ballon de Guebwiller, the highest point in the Vosges, lies 8 km (5.0 mi) to the west of the town.
In 2006, Guebwiller had a total population of 11,609 and its metropolitan area a population of 31,868.
Guebwiller was the birthplace of the physicist and Nobel laureate Alfred Kastler; of the Schlumberger brothers; of the ceramicist Théodore Deck; of Nicholas Niklaus Riggenbach, engineer, builder of steam locomotives and rack railways like the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahnen in the Swiss Alps; and of composer Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin.
Guebwiller is twinned with:
More and more I find
I thought I lost what I left behind
On and on it goes
Through the door and away it goes
So I'll find myself a new pair of shoes
Make myself a new pair of shoes
Up and down my spine
Feeling broken and now I find
That's the way it's been
My bottom teeth are made of tin
Find myself a new pair of shoes
Make myself a new pair of shoes
Grow myself, steal myself
Make myself a new pair of shoes
Down and out of time
Slipping underneath the slime
Out the monkey hole
Pay for things I thought I stole
Can you tell my the way it oughta feel
When I'm walking down the road
And I'm looking for a deal?
Can you tell 'bout the way I better go
When the sun is coming up
And my shadow starts to show?
Hiding out in a cave up in the hills
With a rabbit and a rooster
And some elevating pills
See me 'round every Monday afternoon
With eleven dog eared doughnuts
And a giant pink baboon
More and more I find
There's not a lot that I left behind
On the lawn it grows