Bas-Rhin, France Genealogy: Difference between revisions

Bas-Rhin is one of the original 83 departments created on 4 March 1790, during the French Revolution.  In the mid-1790s, following the French occupation of the entire left bank of the Rhine, the northern boundary of the department was extended north beyond the Lauter River to the Queich River. With Napoleon's second defeat in 1815, the Congress of Vienna reassigned the areas north of the Lauter to Bayern, and those territories are now presently located in the neighboring German state of Rheinland-Pfalz.  The department has twice been incorporated into Germany, from 1871 after France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War until the end of World War I in 1918, and then again briefly during World War II from 1940 to 1945.<br>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas-Rhin]