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is the third largest city in Alsace with about 68,000 inhabitants and capital of the department of Haut-Rhin.. In the German period between 1871 and 1918 and between 1940 and 1944, the city was called Kolmar.. <9> Located on the ´Green Road´ and on the ´Alsace Wine Route´ <9> <9> History <9> <9> In a first mention from the year 823 the place is called Columbarium, dove house.. <9> In the years 1214-1220 Landvogt Albinus Wölfel built the city wall.. <9> The Roman-German Emperor Frederick II raised Colmar in 1226 to the ´Free Imperial City´.. <9> In the Eglise protestante Saint-Matthieu was allowed to be held on 15 May 1575, the first Reformed worship.. <9> In 1632, during the Thirty Years War, Swedish troops took over the city.. <9> King Louis XIV´s troops occupied the city in 1673 and with the Peace of Nijmegen Colmar became French.. <9> <9> Attractions <9> <9> The Gothic Martinsmünster , Pl. De la Cathédrale.. <9> <9> <1001> <9> <994/1794637> <9> <9> The tower has a height of 71 m.. <9> <9> The Dominican church , Rue des Serruriers, <9> with the painting ´Madonna in the Rosehag´ and a large collection of medieval stained-glass windows.. <9> <9> <994/1643286> <9> <9> The Église Protestante Saint-Matthieu , Franciscan Church, 3 Grand Rue <9> <9> <994/1794627> <994/1794621> <994/1794623> <9> <9> <9> With a painted wooden ceiling, rare for the Upper Rhine, and the organ by Andreas Silbermann.. <9> <9> The old town houses in the old town like <9> <9> <1002> <9> <994/1643284> <994/1643287> <9> <994/1643293> <994/1643296> <9 > <9> Hotel de Ville, City Hall, Pl. De la Mairié <9> <9> <994/1794710> <994/1794709> <9> <9> <9> <9> Koifhus, department store <9> <9> <994/1794675> <994/1794676> <9> <9> Maison Pfister, Pfisterhaus, Rue des Marchands <9> <9> <994/1794707> <994/1794708> <9> <9> Maison of the Tete, head house, decorated with more than 100 heads <9> <9> Courthouse, Pl. du Marché aux Fleurs <9> <9> <994/1794706> <9> <9> Residence of the Knights of the Order of St. St. John, Pl. Du Marché aux Fleurs <9> <9> <994/1794704> <9> <9> Ancien Corps de garde, former guard <9> Maison des Chevaliers de St. Jean, House of the Knights of the Knights of St. John <9 > <9> The district of Krutenau, herb Aue, also called Petite Venise, Little Venice on the river Lauch.. <9> <9> The Quartier des Tanneurs, tanner quarter .. <9> <9> The Synagogue , Rue de la Grenouillére <9> <9> <994/1794705> <9> <9> The Schwendi Fountain, Place de l´ancienne Douane <9> <9> <994 / 1643291> <994/1794666> <9> <9> Built in 1898 by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi.. <9> In honor of Lazarus von Schwendi <9> <9> <9> The Unterlinden Museum , 1 Rue Unterlinden, <9> with the Isenheim altar from the 16th century and <9> works by Martin Schongauer, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Hans Holbein the Elder.. <9> <9> The Musée Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi , 30 Rue des Marchands.. <9> The theme is the history of the Jewish community Colmars <9> <9> The Musée d´Histoire Naturelle et d´ethnographie, Museum of Natural and Ethnological Studies, 11 Rue Turenne.. <9> <9> The Musée de Jouet, Toy Museum , 40 Rue Vauban.. <9> <9> <994/1794702> <9> <9> The Musée des Arts Municipales, Museum of Municipal Factories, Rue Rudenwadelweg, <9> with a collection of technical exhibits.. <9> <9> The Bibliothèque Municipale de Colmar, Colmar City Library, 1 Rue de la Montagne Verte, <9> with the largest French collection of cradles.. These are books and single-page prints from the period between 1454, the Gutenberg Bible is completed, and December 31, 1500, printed with movable type.. <9> <9> <1003> Colmar online information <9> <9>