Benfeld
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Benfeld (Script error: No such module "IPA".; Alsatian: Banfald Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France.[1] It is situated on the river Ill. In the nearby hamlet Ehl there is an archaeological site with the remains of the Gallo-Roman city Ellelum or Helvetum. Benfeld station has rail connections to Strasbourg and Colmar.
The missionary to remote northern Australia, Francis Xavier Gsell, was born in Benfeld in 1872.
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Sights
The core of the town boasts several ancient buildings, chief among them the Renaissance town hall with its 1619 automata. The handsome 1846 synagogue survived the Nazi occupation.[2]
See also
References
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- ↑ INSEE commune file
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