Seltz

Seltz is a commune in the Bas-Rhin branch of the Grand Est area in north-jap France. It is placed at the Sauer river near its confluence with the Rhine, contrary the German town of Rastatt. The former Celtic settlement of Saliso close to a crossing of the Rhine river became cited as the Roman castrum Saletio in the Notitia Dignitatum about 425. Later part of the German stem duchy of Swabia, Emperor Otto I granted the region to his wife Adelaide of Burgundy in 968.

Saint Adelaide installed Selz Abbey in 991 and died right here 8 years later. In 1357 Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg raised Selz to an Imperial town, and then the town joined the Alsatian Decapole league. It but lost its immediate reputation in 1414, when it became mediatised by way of Elector Palatine Louis III of Wittelsbach. Seltz ultimately was annexed by way of France in 1680.