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Location within Alsace region
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| Country | France |
| Region | Alsace |
| Department | Bas-Rhin |
| Arrondissement | Sélestat-Erstein |
| Canton | Sélestat |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes de Sélestat et environs |
| Mayor | Marcel Bauer (2008–2014) |
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| Elevation | 165–184 m (541–604 ft) (avg. 173 m/568 ft) |
| Land area1 | 44.40 km2 (17.14 sq mi) |
| Population2 | 19,459 (2006) |
| - Density | 438 /km2 (1,130 /sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 67462/ 67600 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Sélestat (French: Sélestat, pronounced: [selɛsta]; Alsatian: Schlestatt or Schlettstadt, [ˈʃlɛd̥ʃd̥ɐd̥]; German: Schlettstadt) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
In 2006, Sélestat had a total population of 19,459.[1] The Communauté de communes de Sélestat et environs had a total population of 35,397.[2]
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Sélestat is located in central Alsace, 22 km (14 mi) north of Colmar and 47 km (29 mi) south of Strasbourg, on the left bank of the Ill River.
Sélestat is near the Alsace wine route, and other notable sites such as the Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg.
The city is one of the richest and most varied in terms of architecture among the smaller cities of Alsace. Most remarkable are the Romanesque St. Faith's Church and the Gothic St. George's Church, the Baroque clock tower (1618) and the Neo-Mediæval water tower. Buildings like the town hall (1788), the railway station (1880s) and the synagogue (1890s), as well as several Renaissance and Baroque civil houses are similarly noteworthy.
The Humanist Library displays one of the oldest and most homogeneous collections of medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books in Europe. Its core is the still almost intact library of Beatus Rhenanus, that had been bequeathed to the city and kept by it ever since.
Sélestat is the cultural center of central Alsace and is the seat of the Fonds régional d'art contemporain Alsace (FRAC Alsace)[3] (contemporary art in and of Alsace) and of the Pôle d'archéologie interdépartemental rhénan (PAIR)[4] (archaeology of and in Alsace).
South of Sélestat, at , is a large broadcasting facility used for transmitting on 1161 kHz and 1278 kHz in the mediumwave range.
The facility consists of two directional antenna systems, each for one frequency. Each of the system consists of three guyed base-fed mast radiators insulated against ground, about 60 m high, which are arranged on a line with a little bow to deserve precisely the Alsatian Plain.