Patrimoine architectural

COLMAR

Adolph House

Built around 1350, this house is considered to be one of the oldest in Colmar. It owns its name to the Adolph family, who removed the gothic picture windows at the end of the 19th century. Those picture windows, from the late 14th century, show with...

COLMAR

Alsace Wine Museum

The Alsace Wine Experience. Discover the history of Alsace wines. Dive into the world of Alsace wines for an exciting adventure through time! Tasting in moderation, expert to find the hidden aromas of the wines ? Or even in the grape juice for...

COLMAR

Bartholdi College

The Bartholdi high school is on the Oberhof, which is a Carolingian estate at the origin from the city of Colmar. On this site where was the Benedictine Saint Pierre priory, the Jesuits created in the 18th century the first French school of the...

COLMAR

Bartholdi Museum

Located since 1922 in the house where the sculptor Auguste Bartholdi was born (Colmar 1834 - Paris 1904), the Bartholdi museum is entirely dedicated to presenting the artist's work. Family furniture, personal souvenirs, models, drawings, paintings,...

COLMAR

Bruat Fountain

This fountain, built in tribute to Admiral Armand-Joseph Bruat (1796-1855) who was born in Colmar, is the work of Auguste Bartholdi and was inaugurated in 1864. It was the first in Colmar to have a system to stream water. The fountain represented...

WETTOLSHEIM

Château du Hagueneck

Near the Five Castles Route is the Hagueneck, a modest but charming little 13th century castle which nestles discreetly in a small forested valley above Wettolsheim. It was refurbished and enlarged in the 14th century. The castle, like the village...

WINTZENHEIM

Château du Pflixbourg

This site was inhabited in ancient times, perhaps as early as the Bronze Age, then reoccupied in the 13th century, being mentioned for the first time in 1220. At an altitude of 425 metres, it was of great military importance because its troops...

TURCKHEIM

Church Sainte Anne

The first mention of a Christian sanctuary in Turckheim dates back to the year 898. In the 12th century, it was replaced by a Romanesque building of which only the magnificent bell tower remains. The present church was built between 1834 and 1839....

VOEGTLINSHOFFEN

Church Saint Nicolas

The parish church of Saint Nicholas, completed in 1789, contains remarkable baroque furnishings that are classified as historical monuments. Installed in the early 18th century, the Louis XVI-style high altar of the church is unique. This imposing...

EGUISHEIM

Church Saints Peter and Paul

The belfry with its gable roof, rebuilt in gothic style in 1220, is now the only surviving part of the original Roman church. As the nave of the earlier church was delapidated and had become too small, it was demolisched in 1807 and replaced by the...

COLMAR

Court of Appeal

Intended for the Oberlandesgericht or High Tribunal of Reichsland, which was too cramped in the palace of the Sovereign Council, this building was inaugurated in 1906. The construction started in May 1902 on the former site of the experimental...

COLMAR

Dominicains heritage library and museum

Since June 25, 2022, all curious people, lovers of architecture and books, discover or rediscover with pleasure the premises of the library of the Dominicans of Colmar. A magnificent restoration has turned the former municipal library into an...

COLMAR

Former Hospital - Mediatheque

After the departure of the Franciscans from their monastery, the superior of the religious order in the province sold the buildings to the city of Colmar in 1543. The monastery was then converted into a hospital, but it was struck by lightning in...

COLMAR

Former Protestant presbytery (House of arcades)

Albert Schmidt, also architect of the house called the House of the St. John's Knights (1608) and The House of Heads (1609) is the author of this building on the Grand Rue, which was built in 1606. Built in a German Renaissance style, the building...

COLMAR

Former St John's commanderie

The St John’s Knights of Jerusalem founded a first hospital in the late 12th century. Attacked by the local clergy who saw a form of competition, the St. John’s Knights asserted themselves only in 1227 thanks to the support of the Pope Grégory...

WETTOLSHEIM

Grotto of Lourdes

Copy of the Massabielle Grotto erected in 1912, in the memory of Mgr Schoepfer Bishop of Lourdes-Tarbes at the time, who was born in Wettolsheim.

WINTZENHEIM

Hohlandsbourg Castle

Built on a mountain summit, Hohlandsbourg Castle offers a magnificent all-round panorama over the plain of Alsace and the Vosges Mountains. In clement weather, you can even make out the spire of Strasbourg Cathedral and the Swiss Alps. This garrison...

COLMAR

Koifhus

The Koïfhus or the former customs house had a strategic place at the confluence of the Grand’Rue and the rue des Marchands, two of the major roads in the medieval city. Imagined since 1433, the construction of the current building was ended in...

LES TROIS EPIS

La Villa Rosa

The naturally harmonious ambiance of this simple and spontaneous garden may be due to the old rosebuches and perennials to be found here.

COLMAR

Law Court

This building, rebuilt in 1532 and constituted from a group of houses, encroached on the cemetery of the Augustinian convent nearby. In the late 16th century the building was deeply changed in the style of the Renaissance. Paintings and epigrams,...