Lauterbourg ( German Lauterburg in ) is a common French, located in the department of the the Low-Rhine and the area Alsace.

Geography

The commune is located in the vicinity immediate of the German border and at the junction of the Lauter and the the Rhine. It is for this reason the Eastern commune more of continental France.

It forms the North-eastern angle of the " hexagonal " French, giving this impression of quasi-symmetry with Brittany. The analogy does not stop there: the geographer Paul Vidal of Blache, in France of the East , notices that Alsace and Lorraine are in direct communication with the plains ic Lœss of the Central Europe, themselves in continuity with the Siberian steppes: he thus compares France of the East with a " shore " undergoing the " swell " to each time a movement affects the continental mass some share in Eurasia. This swell which comes to strike the graben (ditch) Rhenish can come from the deepest Mongolian borders. Alsace is thus for the large geographer a shore , a not physical shore but a human and political shore.

Lauterbourg concentrates several écotone S: écotone between river and agrosystème, between agrosystème and forest (forest of Bienwald, whose edge coincides with the Northern border with German Palatinat). The communes is entirely on the alluvia Rhenish, but Piedmont of the Vosges of the North, from where the Lauter runs, is not far. From the point of view anthropic and cultural, it côtoie two German areas (Bade and Palatinat); it is in addition a river and terrestrial crossing point, which concentrated trade and cultural flows but also of the military currents.

History

Administration

Demography

• provisional population for 2004: 2.247

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

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