Bischoffsheim (; german: Bischofsheim im Elsass; gsw-FR, Bìsche) is a commune in the
Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin (; Alsatian: ''Unterelsàss'', ' or '; traditional german: links=no, Niederrhein; en, Lower Rhine) is a department in Alsace which is a part of the Grand Est super-region of France. The name means 'Lower Rhine', referring to its low ...
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in
Grand Est
Grand Est (; gsw-FR, Grossa Oschta; Moselle Franconian/ lb, Grouss Osten;
Rhine Franconian: ''Groß Oschte''; german: Großer Osten ; en, "Great East") is an administrative region in Northeastern France. It superseded three former administrat ...
in northeastern
France
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Bœrsch
Bœrsch (; ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Notable person
* Charles Spindler
See also
* Communes of the Bas-Rhin department
The following is a list of the 514 communes of the Bas-Rhin depa ...
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Griesheim-près-Molsheim
Griesheim-près-Molsheim () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
It is one of nine member communes of the .
Geography
Griesheim lies some five kilometres (three miles) to the south-east of Molsheim.
Th ...
Obernai
Obernai ( Alsatian: ''Owernah''; german: Oberehnheim) commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It lies on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains.
Obernai is a rapidly growing city, its number of inhabitants havin ...
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Innenheim
Innenheim (; gsw-FR, Ìnnle) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
Among speakers of the local language, the village is often called "Enle" or "Inle" according to the speaker's accent. The suffix "..le" is ...
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Blaesheim
Blaesheim (; german: Bläsheim; gsw-FR, Blaase) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
Population
Blaesheim process
A meeting held in Blaesheim, January 2001, between Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder ...
History
Archaeological discoveries attest to the presence of people in the site of Bischoffsheim since the
Neolithic
The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...
, five to six thousand years BCE. Various remains indicate that the site was already important before the Roman period.