Bischwiller

Bischwiller (Bischweiler; Bíschwiller) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France, just west of the river Moder.

Geography
The city is 7.8 km southeast of Haguenau, 8 km west-northwest of the German border and the Rhine (Rhin), and lies 22 km north-northeast of Strasbourg.

The Moder, a Rhine tributary, flows across the town. Among the other streams which cross the area can be cited the following tributaries of the Moder: the Rothbaechel, the Erlengraben and the Waschgraben. The last one is formed by the confluence of two smaller streams named Weihergraben and Schnuchgraben.

Population
Due to its large Turkish minority, Bischwiller has been pejoratively dubbed "Turcwiller" or "Bischtanbul".

Culture

 * Maison des Arts (Bischwiller)
 * Musée de la Laub

Personalities

 * Henri Baumer, master carpenter
 * Claude Vigée, poet
 * Jacob Kirkman and Abraham Kirkman, harpsichord makers
 * Jean Daum, glassware manufacturer
 * Lucien Muller, footballer
 * Otto Meißner, German politician
 * Christian Goodnight (born Christian Gutknecht) is a direct-line ancestor of former U.S. President Barack Obama.