Sélestat
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Commune of Sélestat |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Alsace |
| Department | Bas-Rhin (sous-préfecture) |
| Arrondissement | Sélestat-Erstein |
| Canton | Sélestat (chief town) |
| Intercommunality | Communes de Sélestat |
| Mayor | Marcel Bauer (2001–08) |
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| Elevation | 165–184 (avg. 173 m) |
| Land area¹ | 44.40 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
17,179 |
| - Density | 386.9/km² (1999) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 67462/ 67600 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
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Sélestat (French: Sélestat, pronounced [selɛsta]; Alsatian: Schlettstadt, pronounced [ˈʃlɛd̥ʃd̥ɐd̥]; German: Schlettstadt) is a commune of northeastern France, in the Bas-Rhin département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. Population (1999): 17,179.
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[edit] Geography
Sélestat is located in central Alsace, 22 km north of Colmar and 47 km south of Strasbourg, on the left bank of the Ill River.
Sélestat is near the Alsace wine route, and other notable sites such as the Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg.
[edit] Sights
The city is one of the richest and most varied in terms of architecture among the smaller cities of Alsace. Most remarkable are the Romanesque church Sainte-Foy and the Gothic church Saint-Georges, the Baroque clock tower (1618) and the neo-mediæval water tower. Buildings like the town hall (1788), the railway station (1880s) and the synagogue (1890s), as well as several Renaissance and Baroque civil houses are similarly noteworthy.
The Humanist Library displays one of the oldest and most homogenous collection of medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books in Europe. Its core is the still almost intact library of Beatus Rhenanus, that had been bequeathed to the city and kept by it ever since.
[edit] Famous people
[edit] Twin towns
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Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium, since 1959
Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria, since 2006
Grenchen, Solothurn, Switzerland, since 1988
Waldkirch, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, since 1966
[edit] External links
- City council website (French)
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