NEUBREISACH  , a

town and fortress of Germany in the imperial province of Alsace-Lorraine, situated on the Rhine-Rhone canal, 12 M . E. from Colmar by the railway to Freiburgim-Breisgau . Pop . (19o5—including a garrison of 2300 men) 3520 . It is built in the form of a hectagon, and together with Fort Mortier, which lies on an arm of the Rhine opposite, forms a place of great strategic strength . It contains an Evangelical (garrison) church, a Roman Catholic church and a non-commissioned officers' school . There are electrical works in the town . Neubreisach was founded by Louis XIV. in 1699 and fortified by Vauban, the Neubreisacher canal being constructed to transport the necessary materials . In the Franco-German War, it was bombarded by the Germans from the 2nd to the loth of November 1870, when it capitulated . See Wolff, Geschichte des Bombardements von Schlettstadt and Neubreisach (Berlin . 1874) ; and von Neumann, Die Eroberung von Schlettstadt and Neubreisach im Jahre 187o (Berlin, 1876) .