Colmar Manor is a town located in Prince George's County, Maryland, in the United States.

Colmar Manor was incorporated in 1927.

The Colmar Manor Community Park was established along the west bank of the Anacostia River in the 1970s on the site of a sanitary landfill.

In 1999, Colmar Manor, Bladensburg, and Cottage City were lauded by the Joint Center for Sustainable Communities for their collaboration with Prince George's County for the Port Towns Revitalization Initiative, which created a common Port Towns identity for the towns ; encouraged businesses development through infrastructure and façade improvements ; acquisition of historic properties and plans for their reuse ; and reconstruction of the Bladensburg waterfront and marina.

Colmar Manor is located at 38 ° 56 ' 2 " North, 76 ° 56 ' 49 " West ( 38. 933811 ,-76. 947077 ).

Colmar Manor is zoned to Prince George's County Public Schools:

* Town of Colmar Manor official website

* Colmar Manor Demographic Profile

* Colmar Manor, The Portstowns Alliance

* " Where We Live: Colmar Manor in Maryland's Prince George's County ," by Jim Brocker, The Washington Post, July 17, 2010.

* Colmar Manor and Bladensburg Floods of the Anacostia River ( 1742-1954 )

* Dueling Creek and Town of Colmar Manor History

* Colmar Manor Historical Markers, The Maryland Historical Marker Database

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Cottage City is a small, quiet community lying between Eastern Avenue ( the border with Washington, D. C .), Brentwood, Colmar Manor, and the Anacostia River.

Known as the Dark and Bloody Grounds, the former site of the Bladensburg Dueling Grounds was located along Dueling Creek and Bladensburg Road ; the historic location now shares the present-day boundary of the towns of Cottage City and Colmar Manor.

In 1999, Cottage City, Bladensburg, and Colmar Manor were lauded by the Joint Center for Sustainable Communities for their collaboration with Prince George's County for the Port Towns Revitalization Initiative, which created a common Port Towns identity for the towns ; encouraged businesses development through infrastructure and façade improvements ; acquisition of historic properties and plans for their reuse ; and reconstruction of the Bladensburg waterfront and marina.

* Colmar Manor ( southeast )

* Colmar Manor ( to the southeast )

The Shreve farm site at current day Colmar Manor, Maryland, was used by the 6, 000 jobless men as a camp site.

The dryness results from the town's location next to mountains which force clouds arriving from the west to rise, and much of their moisture to condense and fall as precipitation over the higher ground, leaving the air warmed and dried by the time it reaches Colmar.

Born at Colmar ( now in the département of Haut-Rhin ), he became president of the local order of lawyers, and in 1789 was elected as a deputy to the Estates-General by the Third Estate of the bailliage of Colmar-Schlestadt.

Every year since 1947, Colmar is host to what is now considered as the biggest annual commercial event as well as the largest festival in Alsace, the Foire aux vins d ' Alsace ( Alsacian wine fair ).

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.

John Sylvester White was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but grew up in the new town of Colmar Manor, Maryland, a bedroom community suburb of northeast Washington, D. C., where his father, an attorney also of the same name, was elected the first mayor of the community in July, 1927.

In Colmar, Dürer was welcomed by Schongauer's brothers, the goldsmiths Caspar and Paul and the painter Ludwig.

After a failed attempt to move on Baghdad, stopped by the Ottomans at the bloody Battle of Ctesiphon, the British and their large contingent of Indian sepoy soldiers were forced to retreat to Kut, where the Ottomans under German General Baron Colmar von der Goltz laid siege.

The Lentienses are defeated by Mallobaudes near Colmar ( France ).

Other exteriors were filmed at the artillery barracks at Colmar ( built by Wilhelm II ) and at Neuf-Brisach on the Upper Rhine.

Hirsch was seconded by various Orthodox rabbis, such as Ezriel Hildesheimer, Solomon Klein of Colmar, and B. H. Auerbach, while some of Frankel's supporters, like Salomon Juda Rappoport, were half-hearted.

Bartholdi's hometown Colmar prides itself with a number of statues and monuments by the sculptor, as well as with a museum, founded in 1922 in the house in which he was born, at 30 Rue des Marchands.

After a brief time at the grammar school of Colmar, he went to Strasbourg in 1651, where he devoted himself to the study of philology, history and philosophy, and won his degree of master ( 1653 ) by a disputation against the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.

Colmar was granted the status of a free imperial city by Emperor Frederick II in 1226.

With the rest of Alsace, Colmar was annexed by the newly formed German Empire in 1871 as a result of the Franco-Prussian War and incorporated into the Alsace-Lorraine province.

It returned to France after World War I according to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1940, and then reverted to French control after the battle of the " Colmar Pocket " in 1945.

Colmar has been continuously governed by conservative parties since 1947, the Popular Republican Movement ( 1947 – 1977 ), the Union for French Democracy ( 1977 – 1995 ) and the Union for a Popular Movement ( since 1995 ), and has had only three mayors during that time.

Colmar was also once linked to Freiburg im Breisgau, in Germany and on the other side of the Rhine, by the Freiburg – Colmar international railway.

The surge in National support marked the biggest single gain by a political party in a single poll in Colmar Brunton's polling history.

The Musée d ´ Unterlinden in Colmar possesses eleven panels by him, and a small panel of David with Goliath's Head in the Munich Gallery is attributed to him.

As well as Real Issues, Maxim also published an ongoing series of educational research reports based on research by Colmar Brunton, called The Parent Factor, related to parental choice in education access, government funding and opposition to centralisation.

The Isenheim Altarpiece, currently on display at the Unterlinden Museum of Colmar, was completed in 1515 by Matthias Grünewald for a local monastery.

Patented in France by Thomas de Colmar in 1820 and manufactured from 1851 to 1915, it became the first commercially successful mechanical calculator.