Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines (German: Markirch) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in northeastern France.
Population: 6,189
Latitude: 48° 14' 48.48" N
Longitude: 7° 11' 7.01" E
The Colmar Pocket (French: Poche de Colmar; German: Brückenkopf Elsaß) was the area held in central Alsace, France by the German Nineteenth Army from November 1944 – February 1945, against the U.S. 6th Army Group during World War II. It was formed w…
Air Inter Flight 148 was a scheduled airline flight on 20 January 1992 that crashed in the Vosges Mountains, near Mont Sainte-Odile, while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport.
Natzweiler-Struthof was a German-run concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the Alsatian village of Natzwiller (German Natzweiler) in France, and the town of Schirmeck, about 50 km (31 mi) south west from the city of Strasbourg.…
The château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg (German: Hohkönigsburg) is a medieval castle located at Orschwiller, Alsace, France, in the Vosges mountains just west of Sélestat. It is situated in a strategic location on a rocky spur overlooking the Upper Rhine Pl…
Sélestat (French: Sélestat, pronounced: [selɛsta]; Alsatian: Schlestatt or Schlettstadt, [ˈʃlɛd̥ʃd̥ɐd̥]; (German: Schlettstadt )) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
Mont Sainte-Odile (German: Odilienberg or Ottilienberg; called Allitona in the 8th century) is a 760 m peak of the Vosges Mountains in Alsace in France, immediately west of Barr. The mountain is named for Saint Odile.
The Unterlinden Museum (officially Musée d'Unterlinden, also cited in English as Musée Unterlinden) is located in Colmar, France, in the Alsace region. The museum, housed in a 13th-century Dominican religious sisters' convent, is home to the Isenhei…
The Église Saint-Martin (St. Martin church) is the main church and principal Gothic monument of Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France.
Gare de Colmar is a railway station located in Colmar, in the Haut-Rhin département of Alsace, France. The same design was used in the construction of Gdansk's principal railway station in Poland.
Ehl is a locality in the commune of Sand, close to the town of Benfeld in Alsace, France.
The Château d'Andlau is a medieval castle in the commune of Andlau, in the Bas-Rhin département of France.
Mont Sainte-Odile Abbey, also known as Hohenburg Abbey, is a nunnery, situated on the Mont Sainte-Odile, the most famous of the Vosges mountain range in the French region of Alsace.
Colmar - Houssen Airport (French: Aéroport de Colmar - Houssen) (IATA: CMR, ICAO: LFGA) is an airport in Houssen, 1 km (1 mile) north of Colmar, both communes in the Haut-Rhin department of the Alsace region in France.
The Humanist Library in Sélestat is one of the most important cultural treasures of Alsace, France. According to a traditional saying, Alsace has three great treasures: Strasbourg Cathedral, the Isenheim Altarpiece in Colmar and the Humanist Library…
The Château de Saint-Ulrich (also known as the Château de Grand-Ribeaupierre) is one of three castles (with the Girsberg and the Haut-Ribeaupierre) which dominates the commune of Ribeauvillé in the Haut-Rhin département of France.
The Château de Ramstein is a ruined castle in the commune of Scherwiller, in the Bas-Rhin département of France. Its name is probably derived from the German Ram (crow) and Stein (stone) and signifies 'rock of the crow'.
The Château de Kaysersberg is a ruined castle in the commune of Kaysersberg in the Haut-Rhin département of France.
The Tunnel Maurice-Lemaire, commonly known as the Tunnel de Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines is a former rail tunnel adapted to permit road traffic to drive between Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines (Haut-Rhin, Alsace) and Saint-Dié (Vosges, Lorraine) without needing to…