Geudertheim is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Bas-Rhin

Bas-Rhin

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.- History :...

 department in Alsace

Alsace

Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...

 in north-eastern France

France

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.

Geography

Geudertheim is a village in the Basse Zorn district, in the heart of the Alsace Asparagus

Asparagus

Asparagus officinalis is a spring vegetable, a flowering perennialplant species in the genus Asparagus. It was once classified in the lily family, like its Allium cousins, onions and garlic, but the Liliaceae have been split and the onion-like plants are now in the family Amaryllidaceae and...

 Country, positioned half way between Haguenau

Haguenau

-Economy:The town has a well balanced economy. Centuries of troubled history in the buffer lands between France and Germany have bequeathed to Haguenau a rich historical and cultural heritage which supports a lively tourist trade. There is also a thriving light manufacturing sector centred on the...

 and Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

. The Rhine and the German frontier

Germany

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 are 15 kilometres (9 mi) to the east. Neighbouring villages are Hœrdt

Hœrdt

Hœrdt is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-Geography:Hœrdt is positioned between Strasbourg and Haguenau, a short distance to the south-east of Brumath...

 to the south, Bietlenheim

Bietlenheim

Bietlenheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-References:*...

 to the east, Brumath

Brumath

Brumath, also Brumpt, is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-History:Brumath occupies the site of the Roman Brocomagus....

 to the west and Weitbruch

Weitbruch

Weitbruch is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-References:* -External links:*...

 to the north.

Notable people

• General Georges Picquart
  Georges Picquart
  Marie Georges Picquart , was a French army officer and Minister of War. He is best known for his role in the Dreyfus Affair.-Early career:...
  
  , who played a key role in the Dreyfus Affair
  Dreyfus Affair
  The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent...
  
  , spent his early childhood in Geudertheim. On July 13, 2006, almost a century after the exoneration of Dreyfus
  Alfred Dreyfus
  Alfred Dreyfus was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French and European history...
  
  , the Place de la Mairie was renamed Place General Picquart in his honour.

Landmarks

• The Protestant church dates from 1842: the church tower is from the twelfth century, however.
• The Roman Catholic Church dates from 1900. Attached to it is the fifteenth century funerary chapel of the Schauenbourg family along with a fifteenth century tabernacle considered one of the most beautiful in Alsace.
• Castle Schauenbourg.
• A mill on the Zorn River.