Kurtzenhouse

Kurtzenhouse Kurzehüse
Coat of arms
Kurtzenhouse
Location within Alsace region Kurtzenhouse
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton	Brumath
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Jean-Georges Bildstein
Area1	3.58 km2 (1.38 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	921
• Density	260/km2 (670/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	67252 / 67240
Elevation	126–179 m (413–587 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Kurtzenhouse (German: Kurzenhausen) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine in north-eastern France.

Until January 1955 the commune was known by its German language name of "Kurtzenhausen".

Geography

The village is positioned about ten kilometres (six miles) south of Haguenau: the surrounding countryside is largely taken up with agriculture. Through the south-eastern side of the commune runs the departmental road RD 37, and beside that the rather indirect railway line that connects Haguenau with Strasbourg to the south.

See also

• Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

• INSEE commune file