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.

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.

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.

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.

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

* 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.

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.

Cities such as Colmar and Hagenau also began to grow in economic importance and gained a kind of autonomy within the " Decapole " or " Dekapolis ", a federation of ten free towns.

Soon after, in arguing for the right of Jews to participate in the market at Colmar, he invoked the Roman juridical concept of " civibus Romanis " ( Roman citizenry ) to argue that Jews, like Christians, should have free access to all markets in the realm.

* the city of Colmar ( in Haut-Rhin ): per pale gules and vert a mace per bend sinister or.

In 2006, the city had a population of 65, 713 and the metropolitan area of Colmar had a population of 120, 367.

Colmar has a sunny microclimate and is the second driest city in France, with an annual precipitation of just 550 mm, making it ideal for Alsace wine.

Colmar shares the Université de Haute-Alsace with the neighbouring, larger city of Mulhouse.

Colmar is an affluent city whose primary economic strength lies in the flourishing tourist industry.

General John W. O ' Daniel's 3rd U. S. Infantry Division attacked to the southeast on 22 January, aiming to cross the Ill River, bypass the city of Colmar to the north, and open a path for the tanks of the French 5th Armored Division to drive on the railway bridge supplying the Germans in the Colmar Pocket at Neuf-Brisach.

The XXI Corps was given the mission of capturing the city of Colmar and driving on the bridge at Breisach.

The same day, the 75th Division made diversionary attacks to cover the Allied drive on the city of Colmar, adjacent to the division's western sector.

Having been on the defense to this point in the battle, the General Norman Cota's 28th Division was teamed with the French armored combat command CC4 and told to take the city of Colmar.

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.

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: 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.