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Gingsheim (; Alsatian: ''Gìngse'') is a former 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 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 north-eastern
France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune
Wingersheim-les-Quatre-Bans Wingersheim-les-Quatre-Bans is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department of northeastern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 and consists of the former communes of Gingsheim, Hohatzenheim, Mittelhausen and Wingersheim.< ...
.Arrêté
21 December 2015


Geography

Gingsheim is positioned between Duntzenheim to the east and Hohatzenheim to the west. The countryside is gently hilly and is used for agriculture


Population


Points of interest

Altar-piece: Oil painting (1897) of
St Nicholas Saint Nicholas of Myra, ; la, Sanctus Nicolaus (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greeks, Greek descent from the maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor (; modern-da ...
by Carola Sorg.


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 2020):Former communes of Bas-Rhin Bas-Rhin communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia Populated places disestablished in 2016 {{BasRhin-geo-stub