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Bennwihr

commune in Haut-Rhin, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ274710 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bennwihr (French pronunciation: [bɛnviʁ] ; German: Bennweier) is a commune in Grand Est, in northeastern France.

History

Bennwihr figures in a report from the year 777 by Charlemagne's missi dominici. They refer to the village as Beno Villare (Beno's domain), and mention the quality of its wines.

The village was leveled in December 1944 during fighting leading up to the battle known as the Colmar Pocket.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bennwihr” as commune in Haut-Rhin, France. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1944—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bennwihr, commune and Haut-Rhin can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as commune in Haut-Rhin, France. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q274710. VIAF identifies the subject as 244634971. Authority coordinates are 48.144, 7.325. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1944.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bennwihr” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.