Kientzheim Explained

Kientzheim
Image Coat Of Arms:	FR 68 Blason Kientzheim.svg
Arrondissement:	Colmar-Ribeauvillé
Canton:	Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines
Insee:	68164
Postal Code:	68240
Commune:	Kaysersberg Vignoble
Coordinates:	48.1369°N 7.2867°W
Elevation M:	225
Elevation Min M:	220
Elevation Max M:	662
Area Km2:	4.83
Population:	721
Population Date:	2021
Population Footnotes:	^[1]

Kientzheim (pronounced as /fr/; ; gsw-FR|Kientza) is a former commune in the Haut-Rhin department in north-eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Kaysersberg Vignoble.^[2]

Education

The village has a primary school: "les Crecelles".^[3]

The Lycée Seijo, a Japanese boarding school,^[4] operated in Kientzheim from 1986 to 2005.^[5] The European Centre for Japanese Studies in Alsace (fr|Centre européen d'études japonaises, CEEJA, ja|アルザス・欧州日本学研究所 Aruzasu Ōshū Nihongaku Kenkyūsho) opened at the site of the former school.^[6]

See also

• Communes of the Haut-Rhin département

External links

• Historical commune of Kientzheim

Notes and References

1. Web site: Populations légales 2021. fr. Legal populations 2021. INSEE. December 2023.
2. http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jo_pdf.do?id=JORFTEXT000031665358 Arrêté
3. https://www.education.gouv.fr/annuaire/68240/kaysersberg-vignoble/ecole/0682043b/ecole-primaire-les-crecelles.html Ecole primaire Les Crecelles
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20050403134615/http://perso.calixo.net/~lycee-seijo/ Home page
5. "Seijo Gakuen closes French campus." (archived from the original) The Japan Times. Sunday February 13, 2005. Retrieved on 2 January 2013.
6. "Du lycée Seijo au Centre d’études japonaises ." (Archive) L'Alsace. 19 March 2013. Retrieved on 2 January 2014. "L’ancien lycée Seijo, à Kientzheim, a accueilli des élèves japonais entre les années 1980 et 2006. On y trouve aujourd’hui le Centre européen d’études japonaises."