Soultz-sous-Forêts (French pronunciation: [sults su fɔʁɛ]; German: Sulz unterm Wald) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.^[3]

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Soultz-sous-Forêts
Commune
The town hall in Soultz-sous-Forêts
Coat of arms
Location of Soultz-sous-Forêts
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Coordinates: 48°56′22″N 7°52′53″E
Country	France
Region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton	Wissembourg
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Christophe Schimpf[1]
Area 1	15.15 km2 (5.85 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	3,147
• Density	210/km2 (540/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	67474 /67250
Elevation	137–508 m (449–1,667 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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In December 1788 Mary de Bode who had been born in England and her German born husband Baron de Bone arrived in Soultz-sous-Forêts. The Baron was given the fiefdom of Soultz-sous-Forêts by the Archbishop of Cologne (Maximilian Franz of Austria). Mary described Soultz-sous-Forêts as a land "flowing with Corn and oil and wine."^[4]

They hoped that the French Revolution would not effect them but at the end of 1794 the Baron and Baroness de Bone moved out of the town, before they mistakenly returned. They were lucky to make a quick escape over the mountains but they left all their riches and five of the children behind them.^[5]

Unusually, Clement, one of their sons, and his son, tried for seventy years to unsuccessfully regain the rights and riches they lost in the 1790s.^[4] In June 1854 the case of the de Bode family was debated in the British Houses of Parliament after it was introduced by Montague Chambers recommending that France should be obliged to award compensation.^[6]

Soultz-sous-Forêts is the site of the European Hot Dry Rocks energy research project.

• George Abert, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly^[8]

• The Baroness de Bode, 1775-1803, by William S. Childe-Pemberton... , 1900^[9]

• Communes of the Bas-Rhin department