Wasselonne (French pronunciation: [vaslɔn]; German: Wasselnheim) is a commune based in the Bas-Rhin department in north-eastern France, more precisely, in the Grand Est region.

In the Merovingian period, Wasselonne prospered thanks to its proximity to Kirchheim, where a large and popular royal residence was established.

The conflict officially ended when Walther von Dahn sold the castle and the village to the city of Strasbourg, in 1496, for 7,000 florins.

[7] During the Second World War, eleven Jewish people from Wasselonne were deported by the Nazis and never returned from the extermination camps.

[8] He deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp with the writer Primo Levi, who made him the character of Pikolo in his book If This Is a Man.