Friesenheim

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

Geography

Economy

Remained faithful to its rural vocation, Friesenheim still counts among the Alsatian villages having an agricultural activity very strong which worked the landscape. Rising towards the sky, of old tobacco drying sheds remarkable examples of this inheritance constitute.

History

Administration

Demography

provisional population for 2003: 636

provisional population for 2005: 644 (figure of municipal population appeared to the OJ)

provisional population for 2005: 628 (figure published on the site of INSEE)

Places and monuments

One does not count less than five religious buildings in the commune, whose majority remained very attended places of pilgrimage and around whose the borough and the localities of Neunkirch and Zelsheim developed. Since XVe century, Notre Dame de Neunkirch constitutes one of the top-places of popular enthusiasm in Alsace Centrale.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Low-Rhine

External bonds

Friesenheim on the site of the national geographical Institute
Friesenheim on the site of INSEE
Friesenheim on the site of Quid
Localization of Friesenheim on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Friesenheim on Mapquest

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