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

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

* " Colmar Manor: Deadly dueling ground now a neighborly community ," by J. J. Smith, Washington Examiner, May 13, 2010

* " 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.

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

Eugene Debs was born on November 5, 1855, in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Jean Daniel and Marguerite Mari Bettrich Debs, who both immigrated to the United States from Colmar, Alsace, France.

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.

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (; 2 August 1834, Colmar, Haut-Rhin – 4 October 1904 ) was a French sculptor who is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty.

Born in Colmar, in the Alsace region of France to Jean Charles Bartholdi ( 1791 – 1836 ) and Augusta Charlotte Bartholdi Beysser ( 1801 – 1891 ), Bartholdi was the youngest of their four children, and one of only two to survive infancy, along with the oldest brother, Jean-Charles, who became a lawyer and editor.

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.

In 1944 he was wounded at Colmar and received the Croix de guerre medal.

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.

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.

* Upper Alsace ( Oberelsaß ), whose capital was Colmar, had a land area of 3, 525 km² and corresponds exactly to the current department of Haut-Rhin.

Colmar was founded in the 9th century.

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.

The Colmar Treasure, hidden during the Black Death, was discovered here in 1863.

* Musée d ' histoire naturelle et d ' ethnographie – the zoological and ethnographic museum of Colmar was founded in 1859.

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.

When Air Alsace existed, its head office was on the grounds of Colmar Airport.

Kastler was born in Guebwiller ( Alsace, German Empire ) and later attended the Lycée Bartholdi in Colmar, Alsace, and École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1921.

In late 1944 and early 1945 the Sixth Army Group was involved in fierce fighting in the Alsace repelling the German advance during Operation Nordwind and subsequent pitched engagements closing off the Colmar Pocket.