Friesenheim is located in the Ried 30 km from Strasbourg and 3 km of the Rhine. The municipality comprises Friesenheim and two annexes and Zelsheim Neunkirch.
It speaks for the first time in 803 when Friesenheim Abbot Thiebaut gave the Abbey of Fulda everything he owned to Friesenheim. The North Frisians of Germany (Frisia) would be moved into the area at that time. They were fishermen and specialized in the construction of dikes where the logo (the tail). The disasters caused by the Rhine, wars and epidemics ravaged the population often. The land was scarce because the area was mostly made up of pasture and land clearing.
St. Nicolas Church: This church replaced it in 1737, became too small. After its destruction during the Second World War, the tower-porch off center-piece is replaced by a side tower (1952). The side altars are carved statues Häusler by the priest: the Virgin with outstretched arms, similar to the window of Notre-Dame de Strasbourg (1867) and Saint-Nicolas (1872). The windows are the work of Rene Kuder.
Zelsheim: Small, quiet village, which can make the connection between the place of pilgrimage to the cave and Neunkirch flowered Diebolsheim. The house Schloessel (late 18th century) is built after the Revolution by Claude Francois Rousselet officer, whose daughter married the architect Antoine Ringeisen. After the death of his wife, it sells the Schloessel auction in 1863. The Abbot Kelhetter acquired it and the landscape to receive the Sisters of the Cross as well as orphans and disabled children in their care. In 1894, the bishop transferred the home education Still, managed by the Brothers of Matzenheim. In the late 20th century, this house becomes a private home.
