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Colmar ( ; Alsatian
Alsatian language

Alsatian is a Low Alemannic German dialect spoken in most of Alsace, a region in eastern France which has passed between French and Germany control many times....
: Colmer, pronounced ; , between 1871-1918 and 1940-1945 also Kolmar) is a town and commune
Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative divisions in the France. The French word commune appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin Medieval commune, meaning a small gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common....
 in the Haut-Rhin
Haut-Rhin

Haut-Rhin is a Departments of France of France, named after the Rhine river. Its name means upper Rhine....
 département of Alsace
Alsace

Alsace is the fourth-smallest of the 26 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the sixth-most densely populated region in France , with 222 inhabitants per km? ....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, of which it is the préfecture (capital). Colmar is also the seat of the highest jurisdiction in Alsace, the Cour d'appel de Colmar
Appellate court

An appellate court is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal. In most jurisdictions, the court system is divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which initially hears cases and reviews evidence and testimony to determine the facts of the case; at least one intermediate appell...
.

It is situated along the Alsatian Wine Route
Alsace wine

Alsace wine or Alsatian wine is produced in the Alsace region in France and is primarily white. These wines, which for historical reasons have a strong Germanic influence, are produced under three different Appellation d'Origine Contr?l?es : Alsace AOC for white, ros? and red wines, Alsace Grand Cru AOC for white wines from cert...
 and considers itself to be the "Capital of Alsatian Wine" (capitale des vins d'Alsace).

In 2006 Colmar had a population of 67,163.






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Colmar ( ; Alsatian
Alsatian language

Alsatian is a Low Alemannic German dialect spoken in most of Alsace, a region in eastern France which has passed between French and Germany control many times....
: Colmer, pronounced ; , between 1871-1918 and 1940-1945 also Kolmar) is a town and commune
Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative divisions in the France. The French word commune appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin Medieval commune, meaning a small gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common....
 in the Haut-Rhin
Haut-Rhin

Haut-Rhin is a Departments of France of France, named after the Rhine river. Its name means upper Rhine....
 département of Alsace
Alsace

Alsace is the fourth-smallest of the 26 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the sixth-most densely populated region in France , with 222 inhabitants per km? ....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, of which it is the préfecture (capital). Colmar is also the seat of the highest jurisdiction in Alsace, the Cour d'appel de Colmar
Appellate court

An appellate court is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal. In most jurisdictions, the court system is divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which initially hears cases and reviews evidence and testimony to determine the facts of the case; at least one intermediate appell...
.

It is situated along the Alsatian Wine Route
Alsace wine

Alsace wine or Alsatian wine is produced in the Alsace region in France and is primarily white. These wines, which for historical reasons have a strong Germanic influence, are produced under three different Appellation d'Origine Contr?l?es : Alsace AOC for white, ros? and red wines, Alsace Grand Cru AOC for white wines from cert...
 and considers itself to be the "Capital of Alsatian Wine" (capitale des vins d'Alsace).

In 2006 Colmar had a population of 67,163. Colmar is also the chief town of the arrondissement of Colmar
Arrondissement of Colmar

The arrondissement of Colmar is an Arrondissements of France of France, located in the Haut-Rhin Departments of France, in the Alsace Regions of France....
, with 86,832 inhabitants.

Colmar is the home town of the painter and engraver Martin Schongauer
Martin Schongauer

Martin Schongauer was a Germans engraver and Painting. He was the most important German printmaker before Albrecht D?rer.His prints were circulated widely and Schongauer was known in Italy by the names, Bel Martino and Martino d'Anversa....
 and the sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi
Frédéric Bartholdi

Fr?d?ric Auguste Bartholdi was a France sculpture. He is also known as Amilcar Hasenfratz, a pseudonym used for his paintings of Egyptian subjects, apparently because of concern that his work in another medium would distract from his sculpture....
. The city is renowned for its well preserved old town, its numerous architectural landmarks and its museums, among which the Unterlinden Museum.

History


Colmar was founded in the 9th century. This was the location where Charles the Fat
Charles the Fat

Charles the Fat was the Duke of Swabia from 876, King of Italy from 879, Carolingian Empire from 881, King of Germany from 882, and King of France from 884....
 held a diet
Diet (assembly)

In politics, a diet is a formal deliberative assembly. The term is derived from Medieval Latin dietas, and ultimately comes from the Latin dies, "day"....
 in 884. Colmar was granted the status of a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire
Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was a union of territories in Central Europe during the Middle Ages and the Early modern Europe under a Holy Roman Emperor....
 in 1226. During the Thirty Years' War
Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. The war was fought primarily in Germany and at various points involved most of the countries of Europe....
, the city was taken by the armies of Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 in 1632, who held it for two years. The city was conquered by France under Louis XIV in 1697.

In 1679 (Treaties of Nijmegen
Treaties of Nijmegen

The Treaties of Peace of Nijmegen were a series of treaties, signed in the Netherlands city of Nijmegen, August 1678 - December 1679, ending war between various countries, including France, the Dutch Republic, Spain, Brandenburg-Prussia, Sweden, Denmark, the Bishopric of M?nster, and the Holy Roman Empire, during the Franco-Dutch War ....
) Colmar was ceded to France. With the rest of Alsace, Colmar was annexed by the newly formed German Empire in 1871 as a result of the Franco-Prussian War
Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War was a conflict between Second French Empire and Kingdom of Prussia, while Prussia was backed by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Grand Duchy of Baden, History of W?rttemberg#The Kingdom...
. It returned to France after World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1940, and then reverted to French control after the battle of the "Colmar Pocket
Colmar Pocket

Located in Alsace in eastern France, the Colmar Pocket...
" in 1945.

The Colmar Treasure
Colmar Treasure

The Colmar Treasure or Colmar hoard is a hoard of precious objects buried by Jews at the time of the Black Death. The Treasure was found in 1863 in the wall of a house in the medieval rue des Juifs, in Colmar, Alsace....
, hidden during the Black Death
Black Death

The Black Death, was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, widely thought to have been caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis , but recently attributed by some factors to other diseases....
, was discovered here in 1863.

Geography


Colmar is 64 kilometers (40 miles) south-southwest of Strasbourg
Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace Regions of France in northeastern France. With 702,412 inhabitants in 2007, its metropolitan area is the Aire urbaine....
, at 48.08°N, 7.36°E, on the Lauch River, directly to the east of the Vosges
Vosges

This article is about the department of France named Vosges. For the mountain range, see Vosges Mountains.Vosges is a France departments of France, named after the local Vosges Mountains....
 Mountains. It is connected to the Rhine
Rhine

File:Swiss Grand Canyon.jpgThe Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at , with an average discharge of more than ....
 by a canal
Canal

Canals are artificial channels for water. There are two types of canals: Aqueduct canals, which are used for the conveyance and delivery of water, and waterways, which are navigable transportation canals used for passage of goods and people, often connected to existing lakes, rivers, or oceans....
.

Climate


Colmar has a sunny microclimate
Microclimate

A microclimate is a local atmospheric zone where the climate differs from the surrounding area. The term may refer to areas as small as a few square feet or as large as many square miles ....
 and is the driest city in France, with an annual precipitation of just 550 mm, making it ideal for Alsace wine
Alsace wine

Alsace wine or Alsatian wine is produced in the Alsace region in France and is primarily white. These wines, which for historical reasons have a strong Germanic influence, are produced under three different Appellation d'Origine Contr?l?es : Alsace AOC for white, ros? and red wines, Alsace Grand Cru AOC for white wines from cert...
. It is considered the capital of the Alsatian wine region.

The dryness results from the town's location next to mountains which force clouds arriving from the west to rise, and much of their moisture to condense and fall as precipitation
Precipitation (meteorology)

File:MeanMonthlyP.gifIn meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of Atmosphere water vapor that is deposited on the earth's surface....
 over the higher ground, leaving the air warmed and dried by the time it reaches Colmar.

Sights

Mostly spared by the destructions of the French Revolution
French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudalism for the aristocracy and Roman Catholic Church clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Age of Enlightenment principles of cit...
 and the wars of 1870-1871
Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War was a conflict between Second French Empire and Kingdom of Prussia, while Prussia was backed by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Grand Duchy of Baden, History of W?rttemberg#The Kingdom...
, 1914-1918
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 and 1939-1945
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, the cityscape of old-town Colmar is homogenous and renowned among tourists. The area crossed by canals of the river Lauch, and which formerly served as the butcher's, tanner's and fishmonger's quarter, is now called "little Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
" (la Petite Venise). Colmar's cityscape (and neighbouring Riquewihr
Riquewihr

Riquewihr is a village and communes of France in Alsace. A popular tourist attraction for its historical architecture. Riquewihr is the jewel in Alsace - famous for the Riesling and other great wines produced in the village....
's) served for the design of the Japanese animated film Howl's Moving Castle
Howl's Moving Castle (film)

is a 2004 Japanese anime fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli and based on Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle. Mamoru Hosoda, director of two seasons and one movie from the Digimon series, was originally selected to direct but abruptly left the project, leaving the then retired Miyazaki to take up the dire...
.

Architectural landmarks

Colmar's secular and religious architectural landmarks reflect eight centuries of Germanic and French architecture and the adaptation of their respective stylistic language to the local customs and building materials (pink and yellow Vosges
Vosges mountains

For the department of France of the same name, see Vosges.The Vosges are a range of low mountains in eastern France, near its border with Germany....
 sandstone
Sandstone

Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock Particle size . Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust ....
, timber framing
Timber framing

Timber framing , or Half-timbering, is the method of creating framed structures of heavy timber jointed together with pegged mortise and tenon joints....
).

Secular buildings
  • Maison Adolph - 14th century (German Gothic
    Gothic architecture

    Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
    )
  • Koifhus, also known as Ancienne Douane - 1480 (German Gothic)
  • Maison Pfister - 1537 (German Renaissance
    Renaissance architecture

    Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, in which there was a conscious revival and development of certain elements of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome thought and material culture....
    ).
  • Ancien Corps de garde - 1575 (German Renaissance)
  • Maison des Chevaliers de Saint-Jean - 1608 (German Renaissance)
  • Maison des Têtes - 1609 (German Renaissance)
  • Poêle des laboureurs - 1626 (German Baroque
    Baroque architecture

    Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state....
    )
  • Ancien Hôpital - 1744 (French Classicism
    Classicism

    File:Nicolas Poussin 055.jpgClassicism, in the The Arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seeks to emulate....
    )
  • Tribunal de grande instance - 1771 (French Classicism)
  • Hôtel de ville - 1790 (French Classicism)
  • Théâtre municpal - 1849 (French Neoclassicism
    Neoclassicism

    Neoclassicism is the name given to quite distinct Cultural movement in the Decorative art and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western classical art and culture ....
    )
  • Marché couvert - 1865 (French Neo-Baroque
    Neo-baroque

    Neo-Baroque is a term used to describe artistic creations which display important aspects of Baroque style, but are not from the Baroque period proper?i.e., the 17th and 18th centuries....
    ). The city's covered market, built in stone, bricks and cast iron, still serves today.
  • Préfecture - 1866 (French Neo-Baroque)
  • Water tower - 1886. Oldest still preserved water tower
    Water tower

    A water tower or elevated water tower is a large elevated water storage container constructed for the purpose of holding a water supply at a height sufficient to pressurize a water distribution system....
     in Alsace. Out of use since 1984.
  • Gare SNCF - 1905 (German Neo-Baroque)
  • Cour d'appel - 1906 (German Neo-Baroque)


Religious buildings
  • Église Saint-Martin - 1234-1365. The largest church of Colmar and one of the largest in Haut-Rhin. Displays some early stained glass windows, several gothic and Renaissance sculptures and altars, a grand baroque organ case. The choir is surrounded by a series of gothic chapels, a unique feature in alsacian churches.
  • Église des Dominicains
    Dominican Order

    The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic in the early 13th century in France....
     - 1289-1364. Now disaffected as a church, displays Martin Schongauer
    Martin Schongauer

    Martin Schongauer was a Germans engraver and Painting. He was the most important German printmaker before Albrecht D?rer.His prints were circulated widely and Schongauer was known in Italy by the names, Bel Martino and Martino d'Anversa....
    's masterwork La Vierge au buisson de roses as well as 14th century stained glass windows and baroque choir stalls.
  • Église Saint-Matthieu - 13th century. Gothic and Renaissance stained glass windows and mural paintings, as well as a wooden and painted ceiling.
  • Chapelle Saint-Pierre - 1742-1750. Classicist chapel of a former Jesuit
    Society of Jesus

    The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic religious order of clerks regular whose members are called Jesuits, Soldiers of Jesus Christ, and Foot soldiers of the Pope, because the founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a knight before becoming a Holy Orders....
     college.
  • Synagogue
    Synagogue

    A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer.Synagogues usually have a large hall for prayer , smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices....
     - 1843 (Neoclassicism)


Fountains
  • Fontaine de l'Amiral Bruat - 1864 (Statue by Bartholdi
    Frédéric Bartholdi

    Fr?d?ric Auguste Bartholdi was a France sculpture. He is also known as Amilcar Hasenfratz, a pseudonym used for his paintings of Egyptian subjects, apparently because of concern that his work in another medium would distract from his sculpture....
    )
  • Fontaine Roeselmann - 1888 (Statue by Bartholdi)
  • Fontaine Schwendi - 1898 (Statue by Bartholdi)


Monuments
  • Monument du Général Rapp - 1856 (first shown 1855 in Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
    . Statue by Bartholdi, his earliest major work)
  • Monument Hirn - 1894 (Statue by Bartholdi)
  • Statue "Les grands soutiens du monde" - 1902 (in the courtyard of the Bartholdi Museum)


Museums

  • Unterlinden Museum - one of the main museums in Alsace. Displays the Isenheim Altarpiece
    Isenheim Altarpiece

    The Isenheim Altarpiece is an altarpiece painted by the German artist Matthias Gr?newald between 1512 and 1516. It is on display at the Unterlinden Museum at Colmar, Alsace, now in France....
    , a large collection of medieval, Renaissance and baroque Upper-Rhenish
    Upper Rhine

    The Upper Rhine is the part of the Rhine that flows northbound after Basel, Switzerland, along the Rhine rift, and then westward to Bingen am Rhein, Germany....
     paintings and sculptures, archeological artefacts, design and international modern art.
  • Musée Bartholdi - the birthplace of Frédéric Bartholdi
    Frédéric Bartholdi

    Fr?d?ric Auguste Bartholdi was a France sculpture. He is also known as Amilcar Hasenfratz, a pseudonym used for his paintings of Egyptian subjects, apparently because of concern that his work in another medium would distract from his sculpture....
     show his life and work through paintings, drawings, family objects and furniture as well as numerous plaster, metal and stone sculptures.
  • Musée d'histoire naturelle et d'ethnographie - the zoological and ethnographical museum of Colmar was founded in 1859. Besides a large collection of stuffed animals and artefacts from former French and German colonies in Africa
    Africa

    Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
     and Polynesia
    Polynesia

    Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean....
    , it also houses a collection of ancient Egypt
    Egypt

    Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
    ian items, as well as a section dedicated to the local Jewish community
    History of Jews in Alsace

    File:Synagogue de la Paix-4.jpgThe Jewish community of Alsace is one of the oldest Jewish community in Europe. It was first attested in 1165 by Benjamin of Tudela, who wrote about a "large number of learned men" in Strasbourg, and it is assumed that it dates back until around the year 1000....
    .
  • Musée du jouet - the town's toy museum, founded 1993
  • Musée des usines municipales - industrial and technological museum in a former factory, dedicated to the history of everyday technology.


Library

The Municipal Library of Colmar (Bibliothèque municipale de Colmar) owns one of the richest collections of incunabula
Incunabulum

Incunabulum comes from the Latin for swaddling clothes or cradle, and can refer to "the earliest stages or first traces in the development of anything." In printing, an incunabulum is a book, or even a single sheet of text, that was printing — not manuscript — before the year 1501 in Europe....
 in France, with over 2,300 volumes. This is quite an exceptional number for a city that is neither the main seat of a university, nor of a college, and has its explanation in the disowning of local monasteries
Monastery

Monastery , a term derived from the Greek language word ???ast?????, neut. of ???ast????? - monasterios denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of Monk, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in Cenobium or alone ....
, abbey
Abbey

An abbey , is a Christianity monastery or convent, under the government of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community....
s and convent
Convent

A convent may refer to a community of priests, religious brothers, religious sisters, or nuns, or it may refer to the building used by the community, particularly in the Roman Catholic Church and in the Anglican Communion....
s during the French Revolution
French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudalism for the aristocracy and Roman Catholic Church clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Age of Enlightenment principles of cit...
 and the subsequent gift of their collections to the town.

Education

Colmar shares the Université de Haute-Alsace with the neighbouring, larger city of Mulhouse
Mulhouse

Mulhouse is a city and communes of France in eastern France, close to the Switzerland and Germany borders. With 271,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2007 it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin departments of France, and the second largest in the Alsace regions of France after Strasbourg....
. Of the approximately 8,000 students of the UHA, circa 1,500 study at the Institut universitaire de technologie (IUT) Colmar, at the Colmar branch of the Faculté des Sciences et Techniques and at the Unité de Formation et de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire d'Enseignement Professionnalisé Supérieur (UFR P.E.P.S.).

Music

Since 1980, Colmar is home to the international summer festival of classical music
Classical music

Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to mainstream music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of Western art history Religious music and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to present times....
 Festival de Colmar (also known as Festival international de musique classique de Colmar). In its first version (1980 to 1989), it was placed under the artistic direction of the German conductor Karl Münchinger
Karl Münchinger

File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F026295-0025, Bonn, Konzert Landesvertretung Baden-W?rttemberg.jpgKarl M?nchinger was a German conducting of European classical music....
. Since 1989, it is helmed by the Russian violinist and conductor Vladimir Spivakov
Vladimir Spivakov

Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov is a leading Russian conductor and violinist best known for his work with the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra....
.

Economy

Colmar is an affluent city whose primary economic strength lies in the flourishing tourist industry. But it is also the seat of several large companies: Timken
Timken Company

The Timken Company is a major manufacturer of tapered roller bearings and specialty steels located in Canton, Ohio, Ohio. Their products are used in transportation, industrial equipment, electronics, mining and drilling, aerospace and defense and in military applications....
 (European seat), Liebherr (French seat), Leitz (French seat)...

Every year since 1947, Colmar is host to what is now considered as the biggest annual commercial event as well as the largest festival in Alsace , the Foire aux vins d'Alsace (Alsacian wine fair).

Born in Colmar

  • Martin Schongauer
    Martin Schongauer

    Martin Schongauer was a Germans engraver and Painting. He was the most important German printmaker before Albrecht D?rer.His prints were circulated widely and Schongauer was known in Italy by the names, Bel Martino and Martino d'Anversa....
     (1450–1491), painter and engraver
  • Georg Wickram
    Georg Wickram

    Georg Wickram , Germany poet and novelist, was a native of Colmar in Alsace; the exact date of his birth and death are unknown.He passed the latter part of his life until his death as town clerk of Burkheim on the Rhine....
     (1502–1562), poet and novelist
  • Jean-François Rewbell
    Jean-François Rewbell

    Jean-Fran?ois Rewbell was a France lawyer, diplomat, and politician of the French Revolution....
     (1747–1807), diplomat and revolutionist
  • Jean Rapp
    Jean Rapp

    Count Jean Rapp was a France lieutenant general active during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.Rapp was born the son of the janitor of the town-hall of Colmar....
     (1771–1821), general
  • Armand Joseph Bruat
    Armand Joseph Bruat

    Armand Joseph Bruat was a French people admiral.Bruat joined the French Navy in 1811, at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. His early career included far-ranging sea duties: in 1815, he served in Brazil and the West Indies....
     (1796–1855), admiral
  • Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès (1812–1895), politician, killer of Alexander Pushkin in a duel
  • Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904), sculptor, created the original Statue of Liberty
    Statue of Liberty

    The Statue of Liberty , or, more formally, Liberty Enlightening the World , was presented to the United States by the people of France in 1886....
  • Camille Sée
    Camille Sée

    Camille S?e was a France politician who was born in Colmar.As the pioneer of the 1880 French law which established Lyc?es for girls, he also created the ?cole normale sup?rieure in S?vres in 1881....
    , (1847–1919), politician
  • Jean-Baptiste Lemire
    Jean-Baptiste Lemire

    Jean-Baptiste Lemire was a French composer....
     (1867–1945), composer
  • Jean-Jacques Waltz (1873–1951), drawer and caricaturist
  • Guy Roux
    Guy Roux

    Guy Roux is a former France football player and manager known for being in charge of French side AJ Auxerre for the remarkable period of more than forty years and for leading the once humble amateur team to national and worldwide prominence....
     (born 1938), football coach
  • Pierre Moerlen
    Pierre Moerlen

    Pierre Moerlen, born in Colmar on 23 october 1952 and deceased in Strasbourg on May 3, 2005 was a French drummer and percussionist, best known for his work with Gong and Mike Oldfield....
     (1952–2005), musician
  • Pierre Hermé
    Pierre Hermé

    Pierre Herm? is a French pastry chef that Vogue called "the Picasso of Pastry"....
     (born 1961), pastry chef
  • Thomas Bloch
    Thomas Bloch

    Thomas Bloch is a prominent classical musician specializing in the rare instruments ondes Martenot, glass harmonica, and Cristal Baschet.Receiving a First Prize for ondes Martenot at the Paris Conservatoire National Sup?rieur de Musique and a Masters Degree in Musicology at the University of Strasbourg, Bloch has performed over 2500 tim...
     (born 1962), musician
  • Lætitia Bléger
    Lætitia Bléger

    L?titia Bl?ger is a beauty queen who has competed at the Miss Universe pageant.Bl?ger won the Miss France title in 2004 and represented France at the Miss Universe 2004 pageant held in Quito, Ecuador in May 2004....
     (born 1981), Miss France 2004
  • Marc Keller
    Marc Keller

    Marc Keller is a retired France football player, who played primarily as a midfielder. In his club career he played in France, Germany and England....
     (born 1968), football player
  • Amaury Bischoff
    Amaury Bischoff

    Amaury Bischoff is a France?Portugal association football who plays for Arsenal F.C. as a Winger .Son of a Portuguese mother and a father from Alsace, France, Bischoff started representing France national football team in the youth categories, but switched to Portugal national football team in 2007....
     (born 1987), football player


Twin towns

Colmar is twinned
Twin Town

Twin Town is a 1997 in film black comedy film made and set in Swansea, south Wales, although some parts were filmed in Port Talbot. It was directed by Kevin Allen and was originally intended to be called Snakes and Ladders, then Pritty Shitty Citty....
 with:
  • Abingdon, Oxfordshire
    Abingdon, Oxfordshire

    Abingdon is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire in Southern England. It is the seat of the Vale of White Horse district. Previously the county town of Berkshire, Abingdon is one of several places which claim to be Oldest town in Britain....
    , United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  • Eisenstadt
    Eisenstadt

    Eisenstadt is a city in Austria, the state capital of Burgenland. It has a population of about 12,000 .In the Habsburg monarchy, Eisenstadt/Kismarton was the seat of the House of Esterh?zy Hungarian nobility....
    , Austria
    Austria

    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
  • Gyor
    Gyor

    Gyor is the most important city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Gyor-Moson-Sopron and lies on one of the important roads of Central Europe, halfway between Budapest and Vienna....
    , Hungary
    Hungary

    Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
  • Lucca
    Lucca

    Lucca is a city in Tuscany, northern central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca....
    , Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  • Princeton, New Jersey
    Princeton, New Jersey

    Princeton, New Jersey is located in Mercer County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. Princeton University has been sited in the town since 1756....
    , United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  • Schongau, Bavaria
    Schongau, Bavaria

    Schongau is a small town in Bavaria, near the Alps. It is located along the Lech, between Landsberg am Lech and F?ssen. It has about 12,000 inhabitants....
    , Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
  • Sint-Niklaas
    Sint-Niklaas

    Sint-Niklaas is a Belgium city and Municipalities in Belgium located in the Flemish Region Provinces of Belgium of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Sint-Niklaas proper and the towns of Belsele, Nieuwkerken-Waas, and Sinaai....
    , Belgium
    Belgium

    * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....


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See also

  • List of mayors of Colmar
  • Colmar Pocket
    Colmar Pocket

    Located in Alsace in eastern France, the Colmar Pocket...


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