Located 2 km west of the Rhine, 10 km north of Marckolsheim, 17 km east of Sélestat and 40 km south of Strasbourg, Saasenheim is in the heart of the Ried, whose name comes from the 'Germanic' Ried, which means reed, a control plant of a poorly drained soil, which was the case before the channeling of the Rhine.
The village was regularly flooded. Since then, the Ried has become the corn storehouse of Alsace.
The village can be defined by a peculiarity, a hidden treasure.
The peculiarity is a communal ban separated into two, the main part around the built village and 260 ha called "Saasenheim enclave" in the middle of the Sundhouse ban. These are the remains of a village disappeared in the Middle Ages, Linkenheim, whose ban was attached to Saasenheim because it belonged to the same lords, the Barons of Schoenau who lived in a wooden castle in Schoenau during the High Middle Ages and then in a castle in hard at Saasenheim until the Revolution.
The hidden treasure is the Baroque interior of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church, which contains eight cult objects listed as a historic monument, including a Baroque organ by Martin Bergäntzel (1777) and a high relief triptych from the end of the 15th century. century.
