Colmar occurs as city & commune in the Haut-Rhin département of Alsace, France. Colmar was as well referred to as Kolmar in a period of the days while Alsace was a portion of Germany. Within 1999 the city of Colmar had the humans of 65,136 people. Colmar is likewise a head of Colmar préfecture, sustaining 86,832 habitant.

History

A town of Colmar was founded in the 9th century. Colmar was granted the status of a loose purple city of the Holy Roman Empire in 1226. In the Thirty Years' War, the city was taken per armies of Sweden in 1632, who held it for ii years. A city was united by using France inside 1697.

By using a rest of Alsace, Colmar was ceded to Germany around 1871 as a result of the Franco-Prussian War. It was lone reunited by using France fallowing World War I.

Geography

A city of Colmar is Forty miles (64 kilometers) south-southwest of Strasbourg, at 48.08°N, 7.36°E, on the Lauch River. These are attached to the Rhine River by a canal.

Culture

Local 15th century artist Martin Schöngauer painted what is considered his masterpiece, The Madonna of the Roses, within Colmar's St. Martin Church. Matthias Grünewald's famous Isenheim Altarpiece is the most noteworthy of the treaures housed in the city's Unterlinden Museum.

Miscellaneous

Colmar was too a house town of sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (best known for the Statue of Liberty), and contains the total of his works.

Colmar has the sunny microclimate; it is a driest city within France, using an annual precipitation of only 550 millimetre, making it ideal for Alsace wine.