Bischoffsheim
Encyclopedia
Bischoffsheim is a commune
in the Bas-Rhin
department in Alsace
in north-eastern France
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, five to six thousand years BCE. Various remains indicate that the site was already important before the Roman period.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin is a department of France. The name means "Lower Rhine". It is the more populous and densely populated of the two departments of the Alsace region, with 1,079,013 inhabitants in 2006.- History :...
department in Alsace
Alsace
Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...
in north-eastern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Neighboring communes
- BœrschBœrschBœrsch is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-References:*...
- Griesheim-près-MolsheimGriesheim-près-MolsheimGriesheim-près-Molsheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.It is one of nine member communes of the Community of Rosheim Communes, of which its mayor, Guy Erb, is currently president.-Geography:...
- RosheimRosheimRosheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.It lies southwest of Strasbourg, on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains...
- KrautergersheimKrautergersheimKrautergersheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.It lies between Strasbourg and Obernai.-Sauerkraut:Krautergersheim is known as the Choucroute capital of the region...
- Obernai
- InnenheimInnenheimInnenheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.Among speakers of the local language, the village is often called "Enle" or "Inle" according to the speaker's accent. The suffix "..le" is an Alsatian affectionate diminutive, and equivalent to "..lein" in modern...
- BlaesheimBlaesheimBlaesheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-Blaesheim process:A meeting held in Blaesheim, January 2001, between Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder has given this name to a regular series of informal meetings between the French President, the German...
History
Archaeological discoveries attest to the presence of people in the site of Bischoffsheim since the NeolithicNeolithic
The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world. It is traditionally considered as the last part of the Stone Age...
, five to six thousand years BCE. Various remains indicate that the site was already important before the Roman period.