Bas-Rhin 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 lower altitude among both French Rhine departments: it is downstream of the Haut Rhin department. Note that both belong to the European Upper Rhine region. It is, with the Haut Rhin, one of the two departments of the traditional Alsace region. The more populous and densely populated of the pair, it had 1,125,559 inhabitants in 2017. The prefecture is based in Strasbourg. The INSEE and Post Code is 67.
Rimbach-près-Masevaux is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
The Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg – sometimes also Haut-Kœnigsbourg – is a medieval castle located in the commune of Orschwiller in the Bas-Rhin département of Alsace, France. Located in the Vosges mountains just west of Sélestat, situated in a strategic area on a rocky spur overlooking the Upper Rhine Plain, it was used by successive powers from the Middle Ages until the Thirty Years' War when it was abandoned. From 1900 to 1908 it was rebuilt at the behest of the German kaiser Wilhelm II. Today it is a major tourist site, attracting more than 500,000 visitors a year.
The four arrondissements of the Haut-Rhin department are:
- Arrondissement of Altkirch, with 108 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 69,793 in 2016.
- Arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé, with 98 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 211,668 in 2016.
- Arrondissement of Mulhouse, with 79 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 351,012 in 2016.
- Arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller, with 81 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 130,270 in 2016.
The arrondissement of Mulhouse is an arrondissement of France in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region. It has 79 communes. Its population is 351,012 (2016), and its area is 707.1 km2 (273.0 sq mi).
Labaroche is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Ensisheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is also the birthplace of the composer Léon Boëllmann. The Germanic origins of the village's name reflect the area's history.
Algolsheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Aspach-le-Haut is a former commune in the Haut-Rhin department in north-eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Aspach-Michelbach.
Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is part of the arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé.
Cernay is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Wintzenheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Orschwiller is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
Masevaux is a former commune in the Haut-Rhin department in north-eastern France.
Barembach is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France.
Saint-Amarin is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Raedersdorf is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
Le Bonhomme is a village and commune in the Haut-Rhin département of north-eastern France. It lies at the eastern foot of the Col du Bonhomme.
Neuwiller is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It is surrounded to the north, east and south by the Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft, and is roughly 7 km from Basel itself.
Porte-du-Ried is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of northeastern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 and consists of the former communes of Holtzwihr and Riedwihr.
