Leutenheim


Leutenheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It lies east of Haguenau and a short distance west of the Rhine, which here defines the frontier between France and Germany.

History

In eighth- and ninth-century records the village appears as Lithaim.
In around 1140 Königsbrück Abbey was founded here, a Cistercian nunnery, dissolved during the French Revolution.
and the River Rhine, from the 18th century Cassini map.
Before the Rhine was channeled, the landscape here was marshy and criss-crossed by branches of the river. Accordingly, the settlement is constructed on warfts.