Scheibenhard

Scheibenhard is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department of the Grand Est region in northeastern France. It lies directly on the German border and runs continuously into the German village of Scheibenhardt, the two being separated only by a small creek, the Lauter. That creek became the frontier through the settlement of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and the two halves of the settlement were both annexed by the German Empire from 1870 to 1918 and again under Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945. The village sits close to the northeastern corner of France, which makes it one of the country's most easterly border settlements and a clear example of a boundary drawn along a watercourse through what is otherwise a single built-up place. The French form of the name is pronounced roughly shy-ben-art.