is a
French ''
Département ''. The name means "Lower
Rhine ".
The ''département'' was 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 département's northern boundary was extended north beyond the Lauter to the Queich river to include the areas of
Annweiler Am Trifels ,
Landau An Der Pfalz ,
Bad Bergzabern , and
Wörth An Der Rhein . However, upon
Napoleon 's
Second Defeat in
1815 , the
Congress Of Vienna reassigned the areas north of the Lauter to
Bavaria ; and those territories are now presently located in the neighboring
German State of
Rhineland-Palatinate .
The département has twice been incorporated into (after France's defeat in the
Franco-Prussian War ) until the end of
World War I in
1918 , and again briefly during
World War II (from
1940 to
1945 ).
The
Rhine River has always been of importance to the area.
Communes Of The Bas-Rhin Département Sorted By Arrondissements And Cantons
Arrondissements Of The Bas-Rhin Département
Cantons Of The Bas-Rhin Département
Strasbourg is the seat of the
European Parliament .
