The town has had its own railway station since 1876, and since the reversion of Alsace to French control it has thereby been connected to both the French and German rail networks.
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Close by, to the west, is the northern end of the A35 Autoroute, the principal north-south highway in Alsace which link to Strasbourg and, beyond that, Mulhouse and Basel (St Louis).
In 1743, during the War of the Austrian Succession, he was appointed acting chief surgeon at a French military hospital in Lauterbourg, Alsace.
Paul Schmitthenner (15 December 1884 – 11 November 1972) was a German architect and city planner from Lauterbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, one of Adolf Hitler's architects.