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Canton Of Bouxwiller
The canton of Bouxwiller is an administrative division of the Bas-Rhin department, northeastern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Bouxwiller. It consists of the following communes: # Alteckendorf # Berstett #Bosselshausen #Bossendorf # Bouxwiller #Buswiller #Dingsheim #Dossenheim-Kochersberg #Duntzenheim #Durningen # Ettendorf # Fessenheim-le-Bas #Furdenheim # Geiswiller-Zœbersdorf #Gougenheim #Grassendorf #Griesheim-sur-Souffel #Handschuheim # Hochfelden # Hohfrankenheim #Hurtigheim #Ingenheim # Issenhausen #Ittenheim # Kienheim #Kirrwiller #Kuttolsheim # Lixhausen # Melsheim # Minversheim # Mutzenhouse #Neugartheim-Ittlenheim #Obermodern-Zutzendorf # Obersoultzbach # Pfulgriesheim # Quatzenheim # Ringendorf # Rohr # Schalkendorf # Scherlenheim # Schnersheim #Schwindratzheim # Stutzheim-Offenheim #Truchtersheim # Uttwiller #Val-de-Moder (partly) # Waltenheim-sur-Zorn # Wickersheim-Wilshause ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantons Of France
The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the France, French Republic's Departments of France, departments and Arrondissements of France, arrondissements. Apart from their role as organizational units in relation to certain aspects of the administration of public services and justice, the chief purpose of the cantons today is to serve as Constituency, constituencies for the election of members of the representative assemblies established in each of France's territorial departments (Departmental council (France), departmental councils, formerly general councils). For this reason, such elections were known in France as "cantonal elections", until 2015 when their name was changed to "departmental elections" to match the departmental councils' name. As of 2015, there were 2,054 cantons in France. Most of them group together a number of Communes of France, communes (the lowest administrative division of the French Republic), although larger communes may be included in mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geiswiller-Zœbersdorf
Geiswiller-Zœbersdorf is a commune in the department of Bas-Rhin, northeastern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2018 by merger of the former communes of Geiswiller (the seat) and Zœbersdorf. 28 December 2017 See also *Communes of the Bas-Rhin department
The following is a list of the 514 communes of the Bas-Rhin department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):
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Kuttolsheim
Kuttolsheim (; german: Küttolsheim; gsw-FR, Kettelse) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It has been built along an old Roman road leading from Strasbourg to Saverne. Geography Saverne is approximately twelve kilometres (seven kilometres) to the north-west while Strasbourg is approximately twenty-five kilometres (fifteen miles) to the east. The twentieth century route nationale connecting the two avoids Kuttolsheim but passes through Marlenheim, a short distance to the south. Landmarks *Sainte-Barbe chapel: classified as a historic monument; the tower has been built in the 13th century near a sultry spring, probably on the place of an elder sanctuary. The nave dates from the seventeenth century. *Schwefelsee (''sulfur lake''): known since the Roman era, its water was then piped to Strasbourg. The lake is a small natural water retain at the outlet of the Souffel's spring. The spring's rate of flow reaches 17 litres per second, its tem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirrwiller
Kirrwiller (; german: Kirweiler; Alsatian: ''Kìrrwiller'') is a commune in the Bas-Rhin département in Grand Est in north-eastern France.Commune de Kirrwiller (67242) INSEE. Between 1974 and 2007 Kirrwiller-Bosselshausen was a single commune, but in January 2007, Bosselshausen and Kirrwiller communes were separated. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kienheim
Kienheim () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It lies twenty kilometres (twelve miles) to the east-southeast of Saverne. See also * Communes of the Bas-Rhin department * Kochersberg The Kochersberg () is a natural region of the French département of Bas-Rhin in Alsace and is a part of the hills found along the eastern side of the Vosges mountains. It gave its name to the Communauté de communes du Kochersberg, a cooperation o ... References External links official site Communes of Bas-Rhin Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{BasRhin-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ittenheim
Ittenheim (; gsw-FR, Ittene) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Geography Ittenheim is positioned ten kilometres (six miles) to the west of Strasbourg. The little town is crossed by the departmental road RD1004 (formerly Route Nationale 4): before the development of the autoroute network, Ittenheim was the first village passed through by motorists after leaving Strasbourg en route for Paris. Adjacent communes are Hurtigheim to the north and Handschuheim to the west. Celebrity connection One of the inhabitants of Ittenheim may have saved the life of President Jacques Chirac during the 2002 Bastille Day parade. Chirac was targeted by a right-wing extremist gunman named Maxime Brunerie: the man who disarmed the gunman, thereby thwarting a presidential assassination, is called Jacques Weber. See also * Communes of the Bas-Rhin department * Kochersberg The Kochersberg () is a natural region of the French département of Bas-Rhin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issenhausen
Issenhausen (; gsw-FR, Issehüse) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Geography Issenhausen is positioned to the north-west of Strasbourg at the western edge of the Alsace plane, where the ground becomes less flat in apparent anticipation of the Vosges Mountains further to the west. This is essentially a one street village stretched out along the side of a hill, the shape of the overall commune being reminiscent of a shallow bowl. The landscape is of gentle rolling hills: the highest point within the commune is the 254 meter high Moenchberg. The subsoil is of sedimentary soil similar to that found in many parts of south-western Germany across the Rhine. The "Bachgraben" stream, a tributary of the river Zorn, flows through the village. Economy 94% of the communal territory is given over to agriculture: cereal crops predominate in the early years of the 21st century. History According to an etymological dictionary the name of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingenheim
Ingenheim (; gsw-FR, Íngne) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. The name The earliest surviving record dates from 739 and names the village Ingenhaim. The first two syllables may comes from the Germanic given/Christian name, "Ingo". "Heim" occurs frequently in place names in countries where the local language is or has been a dialect of German: it is from the same root as the English word "home" and may refer to a grouping of houses or to a farmstead. History Between 1802 and 1853 the village was the centre for a consistory for Protestant communities in the surrounding settlements of Dettwiller, Ernolsheim-lès-Saverne, Schwindratzheim, Alteckendorf, Waltenheim-sur-Zorn and Duntzenheim. It lost out to Schwindratzheim after 1852 when the parish replaced the consistory as the defining organisational unit for protestant churches in France. Landmarks The Protestant church, completed in 1911. See also * Communes of the Bas-R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurtigheim
Hurtigheim (; german: Hürtigheim) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Hurtigheim has been built along an old Roman road leading from Strasbourg to Saverne. Notable people Jean-Jacques Urban, a prominent politician of the Democratic Republican Alliance in the 1930s and 1940s, was born at Hurtigheim on 26 October 1875. The party emerged discredited from the Vichy period, but Urban himself did not participate in the voting of full powers to Philippe Pétain in July 1940. See also * Communes of the Bas-Rhin department * Kochersberg The Kochersberg () is a natural region of the French département of Bas-Rhin in Alsace and is a part of the hills found along the eastern side of the Vosges mountains. It gave its name to the Communauté de communes du Kochersberg, a cooperation o ... References Communes of Bas-Rhin Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{BasRhin-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hohfrankenheim
Hohfrankenheim () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. History The first surviving record of Hohfrankenheim dates from 830. See also * Communes of the Bas-Rhin department The following is a list of the 514 communes of the Bas-Rhin department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Bas-Rhin Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{BasRhin-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hochfelden, Bas-Rhin
Hochfelden is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. On 1 January 2017, the former commune of Schaffhouse-sur-Zorn was merged into Hochfelden. History Until their deportation to the south in 1940, Hochfelden had a significant Jewish community. The town possesses a synagogue, which is also registered as a Monument historique. In 1941, more than 200 young people celebrated Bastille Day with a street procession. The occupying forces retaliated, placing the village under a state of siege. The Mayor and Gendarmes were replaced and 106 people, including 23 women, were interned at Schirmeck. The information was reported to London where the events were reported by the BBC. Economy Meteor beer is brewed and sold in Hochfelden. See also * Communes of the Bas-Rhin department The following is a list of the 514 communes of the Bas-Rhin department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handschuheim
Handschuheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It lies a few kilometres to the west of Strasbourg along the old national road RN4. See also * Communes of the Bas-Rhin department * Kochersberg The Kochersberg () is a natural region of the French département of Bas-Rhin in Alsace and is a part of the hills found along the eastern side of the Vosges mountains. It gave its name to the Communauté de communes du Kochersberg, a cooperation o ... References External links official site Communes of Bas-Rhin Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{BasRhin-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
