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Salenthal is a common French, located in the department of the the Low-Rhine and the area Alsace.

Geography

Salenthal is located at 4 km in the south of Marmoutier and about thirty in the North-West Strasbourg. The service road of the commune is ensured by the RD1004-ex RN4 which one joined with Singrist by the RD 117. With the foot of the the Vosges, the landscape is composed of hills occupied primarily by meadows and some cultures. The village, at an altitude of 280 meters, east girds few extensive orchards.

Salenthal is bordering on Singrist in the North-East, Allenwiller in the south, Birkenwald in south-west and Dimbsthal in the North-West.

History

The village is mentioned for the first time in 1122, in a document of the abbey of Marmoutier. In 1287, Burkard de Salenthal sells a cereal revenue with the convent of Obersteigen. In 1390, Salenthal falls to the lords of Wangen. In 1667, Fançois-Egon de Furstenberg buys the old possessions of the abbey of Marmoutier on the sector for reassigning to him in 1705. In 1790, the commune integrates the Canton of Marmoutier.

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Places and monuments

Saint-Maurice church: nave of the end of the XIXe century; turn-chorus probably of the 13th century.
cross of cemetery gone back to 1757 near the church Saint-Maurice

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