commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
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 ...
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 It superseded three former administra ...
in north-eastern
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...
,INSEE commune file /ref> approximately 18 kilometres (eleven miles) northwest of Haguenau.
On 1 September 1945 the villages of Gumbrechtshoffen-Oberbronn ''(Obergumbrechtshoffen in Alsatian)'' and Gumbrechtshoffen-Niederbronn ''(Niedergumbrechtshoffen)'' merged: Gumbrechtshoffen was the result.
Geography
The commune is positioned between
Niederbronn
Niederbronn-les-Bains () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is positioned between Bitche and Wissembourg, close to the current frontier with Germany.
Niederbronn-les-Bains is part of the Northern V ...
and Haguenau, a couple of kilometres to the west of the main road that connects the two. It is traversed by the river River Zinsel.