text: Most of the large factories are in an industrial estate located south of the town centre. Created in the 1930s, it covers a site of . The newer commercial estate north of the town was developed in the 1970s and is dedicated to retail and cottage industry. It covers . The town centre is also an important shopping area with more than 200 businesses.
  Sights and culture
  In terms of architecture the city is one of the richest and most varied among the smaller cities of Alsace. Although it is only the 8th most populous town in the region, it has the third largest cultural heritage after Strasbourg and Colmar. Sélestat has 35 listed buildings and 119 additional sites that are indexed in the French list of cultural heritage monuments.
  Museums
  The Humanist Library displays one of the oldest and most homogeneous collections of medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books in Europe. Its core is the still almost intact library of Beatus Rhenanus, which was bequeathed to the city and has been maintained by it ever since. The institution also holds the books that belonged to the Latin school of Sélestat, at which Rhenanus and many other reformers were educated around 1500. In 2011, the library has been inscribed in the Unesco's Memory of the World Register.