Biblisheim

Biblisheim is a French commune in the Bas-Rhin department, in the historic and cultural region of Alsace and the Grand Est region. Since 1 January 2021 it has lain within the territory of the European Collectivity of Alsace. The village is 1.7 kilometres from Walbourg, 2.4 kilometres from Durrenbach and 11.9 kilometres from Haguenau, and it belongs to the Haguenau attraction area. Its land includes part of the Haguenau forest massif, with the Biblisheim state forest covering 0.32 square kilometres, and it lies in a protected zone with several Natura 2000 sites and two ecological inventory zones. The commune is in the Rhine basin and is drained by the Sauer and two small streams, the Halbmuhlbach and the Altbach. The French statistics institute classes it as a rural town outside any urban unit, and its climate is described as temperate with a cool summer and no dry season, class Cfb of the Köppen-Geiger scheme.