Leutenheim is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.INSEE commune file It lies east of Haguenau and a short distance west of the Rhine, which here defines the frontier between France and Germany.
History In eighth- and ninth-century records the village appears as Lithaim.
In around 1140 Königsbrück Abbey was founded here, a Cistercian nunnery, dissolved during the French Revolution.
Before the Rhine was channeled, the landscape here was marshy and criss-crossed by branches of the river. Accordingly, the settlement is constructed on warfts.
See also Communes of the Bas-Rhin department
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