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Schweighouse-sur-Moder (, ; ) is a commune in the
Bas-Rhin Bas-Rhin () is a department in Alsace which is a part of the Grand Est region of France. The name means 'Lower Rhine', referring to its lower altitude among the two French Rhine departments: it is downstream of the Haut-Rhin (Upper Rhine) de ...
department in
Grand Est Grand Est (; ) is an Regions of France, administrative region in northeastern France. It superseded three former administrative regions, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, on 1 January 2016 under the provisional name of Alsace-Champagne-A ...
in north-eastern
France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
. The name of the commune was officially changed from ''Schweighausen'' to ''Schweighouse-sur-Moder'' in September 1949.Décret du 5 septembre 1949 portant changement de nom de la commune de Schweighausen (Bas-Rhin)
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'' n° 0211, 7 September 1949, p. 8978.


Population


Twin towns

Schweighouse-sur-Moder is twinned with: *
Marano Lagunare Marano Lagunare () is a (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about south of Udine. Marano Lagunare borders the following munici ...
, Italy


See also

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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 2025):Official site
Communes of Bas-Rhin Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{BasRhin-geo-stub