Herbitzheim 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

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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Herbitzheim is one of thirteen member communes of the Association of Sarre-Union region communes.

Location

The village is located in the north west of Alsace, on the Saar Coal Canal at point where the little River Eichel flows into the Saar

Saar River

The Saar is a river in northeastern France and western Germany, and a right tributary of the Moselle. It rises in the Vosges mountains on the border of Alsace and Lorraine and flows northwards into the Moselle near Trier. It has two headstreams , that both start near Mont Donon, the highest peak...

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Surrounding communes are Siltzheim

Siltzheim

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

 to the north, Oermingen

Oermingen

Oermingen is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in northeastern France.-References:*...

 in the south-east and Keskastel

Keskastel

Keskastel is a commune in the northwest of the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.-Geography:Kernkastel is positioned on the banks of the Saar...

 to the south. To the west the commune is on the border with Sarreguemines

Sarreguemines

Sarreguemines is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.It is the seat of an arrondissement.-Geography:...

 in the adjacent Moselle

Moselle

Moselle is a department in the east of France named after the river Moselle.- History :Moselle is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...

 département.