Schleithal (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Schleithal is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. 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.In the mid-1790s, following the French occupation of the entire left bank of the Rhine, the northern boundary of the department was extended north beyond the Lauter to the Queich river to include the areas of Annweiler am Trifels, Landau in der Pfalz, Bad Bergzabern, and W rth am Rhein. However, upon Napoleon''s second defeat in 1815, the Congress of Vienna reassigned the areas north of the Lauter to Bavaria; and those territories are now presently located in the neighbouring German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.