Leutenheim | |
Native Name: | Littenem |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Leutenheim (Bas-Rhin).svg |
Arrondissement: | Haguenau-Wissembourg |
Canton: | Bischwiller |
Insee: | 67264 |
Postal Code: | 67480 |
Mayor: | Marc Antoni[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Coordinates: | 48.8436°N 8.0214°W |
Elevation Min M: | 115 |
Elevation Max M: | 139 |
Area Km2: | 10.39 |
Leutenheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.[2] It lies 20km (10miles) east of Haguenau and a short distance west of the Rhine, which here defines the frontier between France and Germany.
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.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.