Alsace/Elsass kept changing hands between Germany and France back and forth for hundreds of years. The Rhine is a good defensible position, which might be why the area that kept changing hands wasn’t extended to Baden, Württemberg etc., but evidently not good enough to prevent the existence of German populations west of the Rhine.
Alsace/Elsass kept changing hands between Germany and France back and forth for hundreds of years. The Rhine is a good defensible position, which might be why the area that kept changing hands wasn’t extended to Baden, Württemberg etc., but evidently not good enough to prevent the existence of German populations west of the Rhine.