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Château Saint-Rémy d'Altenstadt is a ruined castle in the commune of Wissembourg, in the department of Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. It was one of the four castles protecting the Wissembourg Abbey. It is a listed historical monument since 1989.

The Wissembourg Gap (French: trouée de Wissembourg, German: Weißenburger Senke) is a corridor of open terrain, approximately six kilometres (3.7 miles) wide, between the hills of the Palatinate Forest to the west and the Bienwald forest (and beyond that the Upper Rhine) to the east. It marks the border between the Palatinate to the north and Alsace to the south, and by extension between Germany and France. The Gap is dominated by the French town of Wissembourg, from which it takes its name. The average altitude of the land in the corridor rises from 150 metres by the Bienwald to 250 metres by the Palatinate Forest. Because of the Wissembourg Gap's position on the Franco-German border, it has frequently been a favoured route for military invasions, notably during the War of the Austrian Succession, the French Revolutionary Wars, the Franco-Prussian War, and the Second World War.

Kapsweyer is a municipality in Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Oberotterbach is a municipality in Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

The German Wine Gate (Deutsches Weintor) has celebrated the local wine industry and marked the southern end of the German Wine Route in Schweigen-Rechtenbach since 1936. A corresponding marker at the northern end of the German Wine Route at Bockenheim, some 85 kilometers (53 miles) to the north is the Haus der Deutschen Weinstraße (House of the German Wine street) which since 1995 has welcomed visitors with unusual architectural details and a large restaurant.

Schweigen-Rechtenbach is a municipality in Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Steinfeld is a municipality in Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

Wissembourg (French pronunciation: [visɑ̃buʁ] ; South Franconian: Weisseburch [ˈvaɪsəbʊʁç]; German: Weißenburg [ˈvaɪsn̩bʊʁk] ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France.Wissembourg was a sub-prefecture of the department until 2015. The name Wissembourg is a Gallicized version of Weißenburg (Weissenburg) in German meaning "white castle". The Latin place-name, sometimes used in ecclesiastical sources, is Sebusium.The town was annexed by France after 1648 but then incorporated into Germany in 1871. It was returned to France in 1919, but reincorporated back into Germany in 1940. After 1944 it again became French.

Wissembourg station is a railway station serving the town Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin department, northeastern France. It is a terminal station at the junction of two railway lines: towards Strasbourg and Neustadt an der Weinstraße (Germany). The station is served by regional trains towards Haguenau and Strasbourg (TER Grand Est) and towards Landau and Neustadt an der Weinstraße (Deutsche Bahn).

The arrondissement of Wissembourg is a former arrondissement of France in the Bas-Rhin department in the Alsace region. In 2015 it was merged into the new arrondissement of Haguenau-Wissembourg. It had 68 communes, and its population was 68,299 (2012).

The Dominican Church, Wissembourg (French: Église des Dominicains de Wissembourg), is a church in Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France, formerly the church of a dissolved Dominican priory. Built in 1288, it became a registered monument historique in 1982. It was rebuilt and since 1981 has served as the cultural center "La Nef" housing a mediathèque and a concert hall.

In the First Battle of Wissembourg (13 October 1793) an Allied army commanded by Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser attacked the French Army of the Rhine under Jean Pascal Carlenc. After an ineffectual resistance, the French army abandoned its fortified line behind the Lauter River and retreated toward Strasbourg in confusion. This engagement of the War of the First Coalition occurred on the eastern border of France about 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Strasbourg. After the siege of Mainz in which the Prussian army captured the city, the Army of the Rhine fell back into the Lines of Weissenburg, a position first fortified in 1706. Soon Wurmser with an army composed of troops from Habsburg monarchy, French Royalists and allied German states began putting pressure on the Lines. Meanwhile, the French army organization was in disarray after two previous army commanders were arrested and sent to Paris prisons. Since no one wanted to lead the army, the representatives on mission appointed Carlenc, recently a lieutenant colonel of cavalry. After a series of skirmishes, Wurmser launched a successful assault. After the French retreat, the inept Carlenc was arrested and replaced in army command by Jean-Charles Pichegru. At the urging of the government, Pichegru began launching a series of attacks designed to recover the lost territory. These resulted in the battles of Froeschwiller and Second Wissembourg.