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21 unusual facts about Colmar


August Wiltberger

In 1873 he followed the calling as a music teacher at the Präparandenanstalt (preparatory school) in Colmar, from 1876 at the Gymnasium and at the Höhere Töchterschule, a school for girls, in Saargemünd.

Battle of Adrianople

Gratian recalled his army and defeated the Lentienses near Argentaria (near modern-day Colmar, France.) After this campaign, Gratian, with part of his field army, went east by boat; the rest of his field army went east overland.

Colmar Tropicale

The development is inspired by the original town of Colmar in Alsace, France, with elements taken from ancient surrounding villages like Riquewihr, Turckheim and Kaysersberg as well.

Ernst von Hoeppner

From 1893 to 1899, he was a member of the 14th Dragoon Regiment stationed at Colmar in Alsace, commanding a squadron.

Frederique Trunk

Frederique Trunk was born in Colmar, France and graduated in 1986 from the Conservatoire de Music de Strasbourg with honors in piano, ear training and theory.

Freiburg–Colmar railway

The Freiburg–Colmar railway was an international railway that formerly connected Freiburg im Breisgau, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, with Colmar, in the French department of Alsace.

Funke v. France

His arguments were dismissed by the Colmar Court of Appeal in March 1983 - a public authority can interfere with the rights "so long as it is in accordance with the law and ... is necessary in ... the interests of the economic well-being of the country or for the prevention of disorder or crime." The court increased the daily fine for non-compliance to 50 FRF.

Georg Wickram

Wickram was born at Colmar in Alsace; the exact date of his birth and death are unknown.

Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès

Born in Colmar to aristocratic Alsatian parents, the first boy among six children, he was destined for a military career.

German occupation of Luxembourg in World War II

The Royal Family was evacuated from its residence in Colmar-Berg to the Grand Ducal palace in Luxembourg City.

Gilson Brothers Co.

John P. Gilson and his brother Michael Gilson were descendants of Theodore Gilson, who had emigrated to the United States from Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg and, in 1850, started what eventually became the Gilson Manufacturing Company.

Ida Wüst

After attending the high school in Frankfurt am Main, Wüst took acting lessons from Thessa Klinghammer and at the age of 16 received her first engagement at the StadtTheatre of Colmar, and further stage productions in Bromberg, and in 1904 performed extensively in Leipzig.

Jean-Jacques Karpff

Jean-Jacques Casimir Karpff (Colmar, 12 February 1770 - Versailles, 24 March 1829) was a French painter, designer and minaturist.

Matthias Grünewald

Only religious works are included in his small surviving corpus, the most famous being the Isenheim Altarpiece, completed 1515, now in the Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar.

November 1918 in Alsace-Lorraine

In the wake of the German Revolution, Marxist councils of workers and soldiers (Soldaten und Arbeiterräte) formed in Mulhouse on November 9 and in Colmar and Strasbourg on November 10, in parallel to other such bodies set up in the general revolutionary atmosphere of the expiring Reich and in imitation of the Russian equivalent soviets.

Pascal Elbé

Pascal Elbe was born in Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France, to a family of middle-class Jewish immigrants from Algeria.

Pope Gregory IV

The armies of Louis and two of his sons met at Rotfeld, near Colmar, on June 24, 833.

Tourism TriRhena

For instance the rich cultural heritage and the important museums (Technical museums in Mulhouse and Art museum in Basel), customs and traditions (Christmas Markets and carnivals), old towns full of charm (Colmar), incredible landscapes (Baselland), a mild and sunny climate, excellent gastronomy and wines, sport and wellness offer (Freiburg).

Referring to gastronomy, Freiburg and Colmar deserve a high position, both wine capitals of the wines of Baden and Alsace.

Tourism TriRhena is a tourist project which involves Basel and Baselland (Switzerland), Colmar and Mulhouse (France), Freiburg (Germany) and the EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg.

Ulrich Fleischhauer

His career was at first grounded in the Imperial German Army where by 1918 Fleischhauer rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and regimental commander of a field artillery unit in Colmar.


Battle of Turckheim

The Battle of Turckheim was a confrontation during the Franco-Dutch War fought on 5 January 1675 between the towns of Colmar and Turckheim in Alsace.

Charles Bernardy

From 1775 to 1780, the troop put on shows at Amiens, Cambrai, Strasbourg, Colmar, Paris (at the "théâtre des Petits Comédiens du Bois de Boulogne"), Angers, Le Mans, Aix-en-Provence, Toulon, Marseille, Dijon, Passy, Saint-Quentin, Antwerp and Brussels.

Chen Halevi

A frequent participant in summer festivals, Chen Halevi has appeared at the Marlboro, Ravinia, and Santa Fe Festivals in the United States, while his European appearances have included stops at Schleswig Holstein, Colmar, Forcalquier, Prussia Cove, Davos, Rolandseck, Aldebburgh and Verbier Chamber Music Festivals, as well as the PMF Festival in Japan and the Perth International Arts Festival.

Colmar Manor, Maryland

John Sylvester White, television actor best known as vice principal/high school principal Mr. Woodman on Welcome Back, Kotter, was a boyhood resident and son of Colmar Manor's first mayor.

Euroduplex

The trains are used on domestic routes (via the LGV Est to Strasbourg, Reims, Remiremont, but also via the Rhin-Rhône to Colmar and Mulhouse among others).

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel

After outstanding success in his early schooling in Porrentruy, he studied at the Jesuit college in Colmar, then theology in the German College in Rome, from which he graduated in 1743.

Nicola Perscheid

Subsequently, Perscheid earned his living as an itinerant photographer; he worked, amongst other places, in Saarbrücken, Trier, and Colmar, but also in Nice, Vienna, or Budapest.

Republicanism in New Zealand

On the eve of a Royal tour by HRH Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall in November 2012, a ONE News/Colmar Brunton poll reported 70% of people questioned responded they wanted to keep the Queen as head of state, while 19 percent supported New Zealand becoming a republic.