Bas-Rhin - Bas-Rhin

The department Bas-Rhin (Lower Alsace) is the northern part of the French region Alsace (Alsace) and has the serial number 67. It borders in the north Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate), to the east on the other side of the Rhine Baden-Wuerttemberg, to the south of the département Haut-Rhin, in the southwest to the départements Vosges and Meurthe-et-Moselle as well as in the west to the département Moselle. In the northeast of the department, at the confluence of the Lauter and the Rhine, is the easternmost point of France.

Regions

In the west are the northern foothills in the department, which merge into the Rhine plain to the east and north.

The department is in two prefectures Strasbourg-Ville and Strasbourg Campagne and five sub-prefectures Haguenau, Molsheim, Saverne, Sélestat and Wissembourg divided. These prefectures or arrondissements, as they are also called, are in turn divided into cantons, which, depending on the size of the population, can only consist of one municipality. However, the cantons are purely administrative structures and do not play an important role in normal life.

places

• Andlau
• Barr
• Buchsweiler (French: Bouxwiller)
• Dambach-la-Ville
• Drusenheim, Ferry connection to BadenRheinmünster
• Ebersmünster - St. Mauritius Abbey, north of Sélestat
• Haguenau (French: Haguenau)
• Hundspach - small half-timbered village south of Weißenburg
• Hoenheim
• Illkirch-Graffenstaden
• Lauterbourg
• Lingolsheim
• Mackenheim
• Marmoutier
• Molsheim
• Oberehnheim (French: Obernai)
• Roppenheim - small village with a large outlet center
• Schlettstadt (French: Sélestat)
• Soufflenheim - Pottery town, east of Haguenau
• Strasbourg (French: Strasbourg) is the prefecture (administrative seat) of the department.
• Babble (French: Saverne)
• Weissenburg (French: Wissembourg)

Other goals

• Northern Vosges in the west of the department
  • Fleckenstein Castle (Château du Fleckenstein) - Massive rock castle in the triangle of three countries. As ancestral castle, it gave the name of the Fleckenstein family.
  • Falkenstein Castle
  • Hanau pond
  • Old wind stone
  • Pigeonnier Pass near Wissembourg

• Vosges
  • Dabo-Wangenbourg
    • Nideckfall
  • Donon massif
  • Hohwaldgebiet
    • Mont-Ste-Odile
  • Hohkönigsburg(Haut-Kœnigsbourg) - Reconstructed summit castle west of Sélestat at 757 m altitude with a view to Kaiserstuhl and to several castle ruins, such as Ortenberg, Ramstein, Frankenburg, Kintzheim and Hohrappoltstein.

background

As Lower Alsace The Bas-Rhin department was a district of the German Empire from 1871 to 1919. Then it became part of France again as a department with the serial number 67. Twenty years later, Bas-Rhin was again under German occupation during World War II, which lasted until 1944.

In the post-war years, Strasbourg became a major European city, which had been the seat of the Council of Europe since 1949, one of the two seats of the European Parliament since 1952 and, in the following years, the seat of other institutions such as the Franco-German broadcaster ARTE.

language

• French
• German dialect "Alsatian"
• north of Haguenau the dialect is more similar to the Palatinate, so that Palatinate people can be recommended to prefer their dialect to High German
• German as a language of education
• English as an educational language (hotels, train stations)

getting there

By plane

The 48.5419447.634444Strasbourg airport(IATA: SXB) with many domestic French and some intra-European flight connections. Scheduled flights from the German-speaking area do not exist (as of 2017), but do not exist Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Prague.

If you are traveling by car, you can quickly get the 48.7794444444448.0805555555556Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden airport(IATA: FKB) Head for a few kilometers east of the Rhine. With public transport, however, it is a much cumbersome option. Due to the fast connections in the Rhine Valley, the 50.0333333333338.5705555555556airport Frankfurt(IATA: FRA) and 47.597.5291666666667EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg(IATA: BSL, MLH, EAP) within reach.

By train

To Strasbourg:

• TGV: Paris - Karlsruhe − Stuttgart and Paris - Basel with a stop in Strasbourg, several times a day.
• TGV: Frankfurt - Karlsruhe - Lyon − Marseille, from 23.3.2012 1 x daily
• Regionalbahn (OSB) from Offenburg above Throat to Strasbourg, every hour.
• Regional train from Neustadt an der Weinstrasse with change in Wissembourg with a stop in Soultz-sous-Forets, Haguenau, Bischwiller to Strasbourg.
• Regional train from Karlsruhe with change to Worth and Lauterbourg. Intermediate stops to Strasbourg: Seltz, Roeschwoog, Rountzenheim, Sessenheim, Drusenheim, Herrlisheim (Bas-Rhin), Gambsheim, La Wantzenau, Hoenheim-Tram, Bischheim (F). These stations are from that Rhine cycle path only a few km away.

In the street

The Alsatian motorways and expressways to the north and south are free of charge. The motorway to Paris is a toll road. There is no motorway connection to Germany.

By bicycle

The Véloroute Rhin / Rhine cycle route runs on both sides of the Rhine

mobility

Bicycles can be taken on regional trains and trams in Alsace free.

Tourist Attractions

• The European Union institutions as well as the Council of Europethey offer visitors to Strasbourg the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes.
• The old town of Strasbourg La Petite France and the Muenster
• Archbishop's Castle in Saverne (Chatter)

activities

By bicycle

The Lower Alsace can be easily explored by bike. 22 routes with descriptions and maps can be found on the website of the A.gence de D.éveloppement Touristique du Bas-Rhin download.

• Info page ADT: "By bike through Lower Alsace"
• 8-page brochure: "By bike through Lower Alsace" · 3 languages

kitchen

nightlife

security

In Strasbourg in particular, there is an increased number of security forces due to the international institutions located there.

climate

trips

literature

Web links

• Alsace tourism - official regional tourism website (in German)
• tourisme67.com: Lower Alsace · in German