Scheibenhard

Scheibenhard is a French "commune" located in the Alsace region's department of Bas-Rhin on the German border, continuous with the German village of Scheibenhardt, separated only by a small creek, the Lauter.

This creek became in 1815 a border due to the Vienna Congress, but from 1870 to 1918 both sides were reunited in the German Empire. In 1872, astronomer Joseph Helffrich was born here.

The village is situated in the easternmost corner of the French "Hexagone", an epithet of France, owing to the shape of its European mainland. A regular hexagon is depicted on France's one- and two-euro coins.

In 1999 Scheibenhard had 675 inhabitants. The mayor is Francis Joerger, elected 2001-2008.