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Seltz

Seltz is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department of the Grand Est region in north-eastern France.

Seltz
Seltz · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Seltz is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department of the Grand Est region in north-eastern France. It is located on the Sauer River near its confluence with the Rhine, opposite the German town of Rastatt.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Seltz

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Selz Abbey

    Selz Abbey or Seltz Abbey is a former monastery and Imperial abbey in Seltz, formerly Selz, in Alsace, France.

    900 m · monastery · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. Stephen (Seltz)

    Église Saint-Étienne de Seltz is a church in Seltz, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. Originally built in the late 15th century, it was bombed during World War II and subsequently built between 1954 and 1956.

    700 m · church located in Bas-Rhin, in France · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Seltz

Airports
Karlsruhe Baden-Baden (FKB), 14 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 54 km · Stuttgart (STR), 85 km
  • Strasbourg → Seltz
    44 km · quickest by road, 51 min · €5–7
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Seltz
    140 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · €17–24
  • Lesquin → Seltz
    405 km · quickest by air, 6h 58m · €130–200
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Seltz

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Seltz. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA free-of-charge ferry (Rheinfähre Plittersdorf – Seltz / Bac Seltz – Plittersdorf or Bac de Seltz) crosses the Rhine in the vicinity of Rastatt.
  • Get inOn the French side, you can take a regional (TER) train from Strasbourg, get off at the station of Seltz and walk through the picturesque village to the ferry.

From Wikivoyage: Rastatt, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    321 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    533 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    545 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    704 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    853 km

If you know how people move in Seltz – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.