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Topographic map of Alsace. Alsace has an area of 8,283 km 2, making it the smallest région of metropolitan France. It is almost four times longer than it is wide, corresponding to a plain between the Rhine in the east and the Vosges mountains in the west. It includes the départements of Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin (known previously as Sundgau and ...
English: Blank administrative map of the region of Alsace, France, for geo-location purpose. Français : Carte administrative vierge de la région Alsace , France , destinée à la géolocalisation.
French map with shading showing départements before 1870 with black lines after 1871 [b] ... Franc-Comtois in 12 villages in the extreme south-west of Alsace. See also
Below is a list of the historic German language exonyms for towns and village in the Alsace region of France (German: Elsaß) used prior to the annexation of the region by France during the reign of King Louis XIV of France in 1681 and again from 1870 to 1918 and from 1940 to 1945, when Alsace was re-annexed to Germany. Alsatian names used ...
The village is close to Husseren-les-Châteaux and is in the middle of vineyards. The village is connected to Husseren-les-Châteaux by the Route du Vin (D14). Around the Route du Vin is a wine trail through the vineyards called Sentier viticole Eguisheim, which tries to explain the different grape varieties and the way wine is made in Alsace. [16]
There is a museum about Alsace during World War II and a torture chamber (La salle de torture). The village is a member of the Les Plus Beaux Villages de France ("The most beautiful villages of France") association.
A parish was essentially a church, the houses around it (known as the village), and the cultivated land around the village. France was the most populous country in Europe at this time, with a population of approximately 25 million inhabitants in the late 18th century ( England in contrast had only 6 million inhabitants), which accounts for the ...
Mittelbergheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. [3] The village is a member of the Les Plus Beaux Villages de France ("The most beautiful villages of France") association. Its vineyards produce one of the finest Alsacian wines: the Grand Cru Zotzenberg .