Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor who is best known for designing Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty.
The Ill is a river in Alsace, in north-eastern France. It is a left bank, or western, tributary of the Rhine.
The Colmar Pocket was the area held in central Alsace, France, by the German Nineteenth Army from November 1944 to February 1945, against the U.S. 6th Army Group during World War II. It was formed when 6th AG liberated southern and northern Alsace and adjacent eastern Lorraine, but could not clear central Alsace. During Operation Nordwind in December 1944, the 19th Army attacked north out of the Pocket in support of other German forces attacking south from the Saar into northern Alsace. In late January and early February 1945, the French First Army cleared the Pocket of German forces.
Colmar-Berg is a commune and town in central Luxembourg, in the canton of Mersch. It is situated at the confluence of the rivers Attert and Alzette.
Colmars or Colmars-les-Alpes is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.
Évreux-Normandie is the train station for the town of Évreux, Eure, France. It was built by CF de l'Ouest in 1887.
Sports Réunis Colmar is a former French association football team founded in 1920.
University of Upper Alsace is a multidisciplinary teaching and research centre based in the two cities of Mulhouse and Colmar, France. Research and teaching at UHA concentrates mainly on science, technology, economics, management, arts and humainities. In 2017, UHA has more than 8000 students with about a hundred courses offered. The founding of UHA was driven by social and business players, among them was Jean-Baptiste Donnet.
Wintzenheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
The Canal duRhône au Rhin is one of the important watershed canals of the French waterways, connecting the Rhine to the Saône and the Rhône and thereby the North Sea and the Mediterranean. As built, the canal was made up of four distinct sections:
The La Nouvelle branch is a 37.3-kilometre (23.2 mi) branch of the Canal du Midi in Aude, southern France which runs from the Canal du Midi through Narbonne and on to the Mediterranean. It is made up of three waterways: the first 5.1 kilometres (3.2 mi) is the Canal de Jonction from the Canal du Midi to the Aude, the second section is 800 metres (2,625 ft) of the Aude itself and the third is the 31.6 kilometres (19.6 mi) Canal de la Robine which enters the Mediterranean at Port-la-Nouvelle. The La Nouvelle branch is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Canal du Midi and is managed by the French navigation authority, Voies navigables de France.
The Canal de la Haute-Saône, also canal de Montbéliard à la Haute-Saône, is a canal in eastern France. Although it was designed to connect the upper course of the river Saône with the Canal du Rhône au Rhin along Lure and Ronchamp, only the short section between Allenjoie and Botans has been opened in 1923. In the section between Ronchamp and Botans, several locks and tunnels have been built, but it was never used. The section Allenjoie-Botans is 10 km long with five locks. It was closed in 2013.
The Canal de jonction de Nancy is a canal in eastern France. It forms a connection between the Canal des Vosges at Richardménil and the Canal de la Marne au Rhin at Laneuveville-devant-Nancy. It was closed due to a collapsed embankment, but it was reopened in 2012. It is 10.2 km long with eighteen locks.
The Canal de Montech is an 11 km waterway in southwestern France connecting the Canal de Garonne in Montech and the Tarn River in Montauban. It is also known as the Montauban Branch.
The Embranchement de Châtillon is a branch of the Canal latéral à la Loire that connects to the Loire at Châtillon-sur-Loire.
Colmar - Houssen Airport is an airport in Houssen, 1 km north of Colmar, both communes in the Haut-Rhin department of the Alsace region in France. The airport is along Autoroute A35 and is served by the Colmar Station.
The Gare de Breteuil-Embranchement is a railway station on the Paris-Nord - Lille line located in the commune of Bacouël in the Oise department, France. It is surrounded by a hamlet also named Breteuil-Embranchement.
The railway from Saint-Denis to Dieppe is a French 161-kilometre long railway line, that connected Paris to Dieppe on the English Channel coast. It was opened in several stages between 1846 and 1873. The part between Gisors and Serqueux was closed from 2009 to 2013, and the part between Serqueux and Arques-la-Bataille has been demolished.
The arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé is an arrondissement of France in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region. It was created at the 2015 arrondissements reform by the merger of the former arrondissements of Colmar and Ribeauvillé. Since January 2017, when 7 communes from the arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller joined the arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé, it has 98 communes.
