Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin

Saint-Louis is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of Alsace in north-eastern France, on the German and Swiss borders just north of Basel. The town grew from Village-Neuf, founded to rehouse the villagers of Hüningen when Louis XIV had the Hüningen Fortress built by Vauban in 1680, and was officially named by the king on 26 November 1684 after his predecessor Louis IX, the canonised Saint Louis. Renamed Bourglibre during the French Revolution, it absorbed Bourgfelden in 1953 and Neuweg in 1958. Most of the land of the EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg lies within the commune, which has a temperate oceanic climate and two railway stations on the Mulhouse to Basel line. Its inhabitants are called Ludoviciens.