Ittenheim (; gsw-FR, Ittene) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin

department Department may refer to: * 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 in north-eastern France.INSEE commune file
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Geography

Ittenheim is positioned ten kilometres (six miles) to the west of

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...

. 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 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 pro ...

to the north and

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 ...

to the west.

Celebrity connection

One of the inhabitants of Ittenheim may have saved the life of President

Jacques Chirac Jacques René Chirac (, , ; 29 November 193226 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. Chirac was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, as well as Ma ...

during the 2002 Bastille Day parade. Chirac was targeted by a right-wing extremist gunman named

Maxime Brunerie Maxime Brunerie (born 21 May 1977) is a French convicted criminal and former neo-Nazi activist, known for his 14 July 2002 assassination attempt on Jacques Chirac, then President of France, during the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. Biogr ...

: the man who disarmed the gunman, thereby thwarting a presidential assassination, is called Jacques Weber.

References

Communes of Bas-Rhin Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{BasRhin-geo-stub