Colmar is the third largest city in Alsace and a Jewelry box. You can see a lot of colorful very well-preserved half-timbered houses. Here "La petite Venise" with the Lauch river.
Colmar, die drittgrösste Stadt im Elsass, zeigt sich mit bunt bemalten, sehr gut erhaltenen Fachwerkhäusern von seiner besten Seite. Hier seht ihr das Schmuckkästchen, das Viertel Klein Venedig, am Fluss Lauch.
Colmar (French: Colmar, Alsatian: Colmer, German: Colmar, between
1940-1945 under Nazi rule: Kolmar) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin
department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It is the capital of the
department. Colmar is also the seat of the highest jurisdiction in
Alsace, the appellate court. It is situated along the Alsatian Wine
Route and considers itself to be the "Capital of Alsatian
Wine" (capitale des vins d'Alsace). In 2006, the city of Colmar
had a population of 65,713 and the metropolitan area of Colmar had a
population of 120,367. Colmar is the center of the arrondissement of
Colmar, which has 144,700 inhabitants in 2006.
Colmar is the home town of the painter and engraver Martin Schongauer
and the sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi, who designed the Statue of
Liberty. The city is renowned for its well preserved old town, its
numerous architectural landmarks and its museums, among which the
Unterlinden Museum.
Colmar was founded in the 9th century. This was the location where
Charles the Fat held a diet in 884. Colmar was granted the status of a
free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire in 1226. During the Thirty
Years' War, the city was taken by the armies of Sweden in 1632, who
held it for two years. The city was conquered by France under Louis
XIV in 1697.
In 1679 (Treaties of Nijmegen) 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. It returned to France
after World War I, was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1940, and then
reverted to French control after the battle of the "Colmar
Pocket" in 1945.
The Colmar Treasure, hidden during the Black Death, was discovered
here in 1863.
Colmar is 64 kilometres (40 mi) south-southwest of Strasbourg, on the Lauch River, directly to the east of the Vosges Mountains. It is connected to the Rhine by a canal.
Mostly spared by the destructions of the French Revolution and the wars of 1870-1871, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, 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" (la Petite Venise). Colmar's cityscape (and neighbouring Riquewihr's) served for the design of the Japanese animated film Howl's Moving Castle. (Source: Wikipedia)
Colmar (1871 bis 1918 sowie in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus auch
Kolmar) ist nach Straßburg (frz. Strasbourg) und Mülhausen (frz.
Mulhouse) die drittgrößte Stadt im Elsass und Hauptstadt des
Département Haut-Rhin. 2006 zählte sie 65.713 Einwohner sowie 120.367
im Großraum.
Colmar liegt an der Elsässer Weinstraße und bezeichnet sich gern als
Hauptstadt der elsässischen Weine. Die Stadt ist berühmt für ihr gut
erhaltenes architektonisches Erbe aus sechs Jahrhunderten und für ihre
Museen, darunter das Musée d'Unterlinden mit dem Isenheimer Altar.
Colmar ist die Geburtsstadt berühmter Künstler wie Martin Schongauer,
Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi und Jean-Jacques Waltz.
Der Ort liegt in einer relativ flachen Landschaft am Fluss Lauch, der
hier in die Ill mündet, etwa 20 km westlich des Rheins, am Ostfuß der
Vogesen, ungefähr in der geographischen Mitte zwischen Basel (60 km
entfernt) und Straßburg (65 km entfernt).
In Colmar befinden sich zahlreiche bedeutende Bürgerhäuser aus dem
Mittelalter und der Renaissance, die der Altstadt über die
Jahrhunderte ihren mittelalterlichen Charakter erhalten haben.
Prachtvolle Beispiele sind auch das 1537 für einen reichen Hutmacher
erbaute Pfisterhaus (frz. Maison Pfister) sowie das Kopfhaus (frz.
Maison des Têtes), dessen Fassade mit mehr als 100 "Köpfen"
verziert ist. Weitere bemerkenswerte Gebäude aus dieser Zeit sind die
ehemalige Wache (Ancien Corps de garde) und das Haus der Ritter des
Johanniterordens (Maison des Chevaliers de St Jean), die beide in
einem von der italienischen Renaissance angeregten Stil gestaltet
worden sind. Die ehemalige Zunftstube der Ackerleute (Poêle des
Laboureurs) von 1626 trägt bereits erste Züge von
Barockarchitektur.Eine weitere Sehenswürdigkeit ist das am Fluss Lauch
liegende Viertel „Klein-Venedig“ (frz. Petite Venise), das sehr schöne
Häuser und Brücken beherbergt. Das Viertel grenzt an das ehemalige
Gerberviertel (Quartier des Tanneurs), das ein ebenso einheitliches,
wenn auch schlichteres, altertümliches Bild wie die Innenstadt
aufweist. In der Nähe der Petite Venise liegt ebenfalls das
„Fischerufer“ (Quai de la Poissonnerie), das zu den
meistfotografierten Motiven der Stadt zählt. (Quelle: Wikipedia)
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