What is Birkenwald?
{{Infobox French commune |name = Birkenwald |image = Mairie Birkenwald.JPG |caption = The town hall in Birkenwald |image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Birkenwald Bas-Rhin.svg |arrondissement = Saverne |canton = Saverne |INSEE = 67041 |postal code = 67440 |commune = [[Sommerau, Bas-Rhin|Sommerau]] |coordinates = {{coord|48.6594|7.3453|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation min m = 258 |elevation max m = 432 |area km2 = 5.12 |population = 318 |population date = 2019 |population footnotes = <ref name=pop2019>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/6011070/ensemble.pdf Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019], [[Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques|INSEE]]</ref> }} '''Birkenwald''' is a former [[Communes of France|commune]]. It is in [[Grand Est]] in the [[Bas-Rhin]] [[Departments of France|department]] in northeast [[France]]. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of [[Sommerau, Bas-Rhin|Sommerau]].<ref>[http://www.bas-rhin.gouv.fr/content/download/17755/131609/file/Recueil%20n%C2%B0%2024%20du%2015%20d%C3%A9cembre%202015.pdf Arrêté préfectoral] 8 December 2015 {{in lang|fr}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{France-geo-stub}} [[Category:Former communes in Bas-Rhin]]