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Nordheim, Bas-Rhin

commune in Bas-Rhin, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ21602 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nordheim (French pronunciation: [nɔʁdaim]; Alsatian: Nààrde, Norde) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Near Nordheim, there is a TV transmitter with a 280-metre guyed mast.

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The public source identifies “Nordheim, Bas-Rhin” as commune in Bas-Rhin, France. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nordheim, Bas-Rhin and commune.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 32-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nordheim, Bas-Rhin and commune providing the first useful test.
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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 Jul 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q21602. VIAF identifies the subject as 1144648118432129852. Authority coordinates are 48.636, 7.509. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nordheim, Bas-Rhin” 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.