Houses in the Main Square
Dec 31, 2014 at 09:44 AM
This is the image of a traditional Half-Timber Frame Houses in the Main Square in Colmar, Alsace. It is really beautiful and impressive. In Colmar, you will witness German as well as French architecture around the city and its town well preserved and maintained in its buildings and monuments. The construction of the building in the city is mostly built in a traditional design. The design of Half-Timber Frame House is the most attracting construction design in Colmar, Alsace. The house in the town is mostly erected by a quality wooden timber. A Half-Timber House and post-and-beam are construction near the river bank of Ill in Colmar. The technique of building with heavy timbers instead of extent lumber. The cozy and typical atmosphere of Alsace, France with enchanting and charming small streets, all with beautiful and decorated stores and cafe are there around the river bank in Colmar. Colmar, Alsace historic town center is on an island and therefore is close by water. Where the river Ill divide up into various canals and run through a small area of medieval Houses in the Main Square and baroque sandstone buildings. These styles are regularly classified by the type of foundation, walls, how and where the beams crossing and the use of curved timbers. Traditional Half- Timber House is the procedure of creating the building carefully fixing and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pin. Houses in the Main Square are really amazing. A short walk around the Old Customs House takes you to the Quartier des Tanneurs (the Tanners' Quarter), an excellent neighborhood of pleasant channels and magnificently restored half-timbered houses going back to the seventeenth and eighteenth hundreds of years. The suitably named quarter was the place tanners made calfskin items. They would utilize upper floors of the houses to dry out the skins. Huge attractions incorporate the Market Hall and the eighteenth century Palais de Justice (Law Courts). Another must-see is the Hotel des Chevaliers de St-Jean (House of the St. John's Knights), manufactured in the style of a Venetian royal residence and a standout amongst the most uncommon Renaissance chateaus in Alsace.
Alsatian Houses Souvenirs
Dec 28, 2014 at 01:17 AM
The old town of Colmar is the ideal meaning of a children's story town. You can see the Alsatian Houses Souvenirs in this picture. The individuals who visit the memorable town feel as if they have been transported into another dreamlike world. The beautiful sentimental town of Colmar with its remarkable customary structural planning and its plenitude of magnificence and appeal. There are numerous Talented Artist in the city of Strasbourg. The neighborhood business sector is loaded with a customary craftsmanship. There are numerous skilled experts in the city of Strasbourg. The neighborhood business is loaded with a conventional handiwork made by a Talented Artist; it is so dazzling and persuaded. Delightful scaled down is embellished in the primary business to pull in the guests. The city of Strasbourg is an enormous visitor spot in France. The waterway of Strasbourg city is looking noteworthy and appeal. The city of Strasbourg is a standout amongst the most visitor spots in France, situated at the south west of the island that makes the city a heart of Strasbourg. While in Petite France, you can watch the workings of the channel locks. The excellent city Strasbourg is well known for the customary stuff. The Beautiful scaled down is one of the noteworthy man made show-stoppers by a Talented Artist in the business sector of Strasbourg. Alsatian Houses Souvenirs are really adorable. Venice symbolizes the general population's successful battle against the components as they figured out how to ace a threatening nature. The city is additionally straightforwardly and unmistakably connected with the historical backdrop of mankind. The "Oceans' Ruler", gallantly roosted on her modest islands, amplified her frame of reference well past the tidal pond, the Adriatic and the Mediterranean. It was from Venice that Marco Polo (1254-1324) set out looking for China, Annam, Tonkin, Sumatra, India and Persia. His tomb at San Lorenzo reviews the part of Venetian traders on the planet's revelation - after the Arabs, yet well before the Portuguese. You will see these beautiful Alsatian Houses Souvenirs in almost every shops. People from all over the world come to visit this place and they never forget to buy these for their homes. ...
Timber Style Houses
Feb 13, 2015 at 01:35 AM
Timber Style Houses are just amazing. You can see in this picture Timber Style Houses looking really great. The quiche Lorraine is additionally an incredibly famous customary Alsatian dish from the Lorraine district of Alsace in France, and is exceptionally mainstream in the United Kingdom. The Half-Timber house with a stunning pink green and yellow house is situated at the residential area of Colmar, Alsace. The shading of the house is really wonderful and one of a kind. The Half-Timber House is typically and prominent in old Strasbourg. The routines for erection are with substantial timbers instead of degree wood. The snuggled up and excellent environment of Alsace, with charming and sentimental little boulevards, all with delightful and enriched stores and bistro arrive around the territory stream bank in Strasbourg. Basically go and feel the most delightful regions in Strasbourg city. Where the waterway Ill parts up into a different trenches and cross through a little territory of medieval half-timbered houses and rococo sandstone structures. It is regular spot in wooden timber house subsequent to nineteenth century. The strategy originates from making things out of logs and tree trunks without advanced innovative saws to cut wood from the introductory material stock. These Half-Timber House styles are every now and again gather by the kind of establishment, dividers, how and where the pillars converge, and the utilization of curve timbers. Timber Style Houses is the procedure of making the building utilizing substantial squared-off and painstakingly fitted. Colmar has been in presence for over 1000 years. Colmar discovered its thriving as an essential focus of exchange. Later on riches duplicated as Colmar joined the Decapole (or the group of exchanging urban communities) and made more current wealth in the cowhide business. In the nineteenth century on the other hand, Colmar and Alsace began making wine and the assembling and preparing organizations took a secondary lounge. Today while industry still exists, Colmar is principally known as a critical stop on the wine course (Route du Vin). After Ile-de-France (a territory which additionally houses Paris), Alsace is the most prosperous locale of France. Alsace is a mechanical locale of France known for its steel and substantial industry. On the other hand, flanking the Vosges Mountains and in addition the Rhine waterway and embracing the outskirt of Germany, Alsace is additionally a sightseers' pleasure. ...
Timber Framed Alsatian Houses
Jan 12, 2015 at 02:20 PM
It is the various subtle elements and authentic segments of the landmarks, structures and points of interest found in the old town that makes up Colmar's special character and appeal. The Half-Timber house with a stunning pink green and yellow house is situated at the residential area of Colmar, Alsace. The shading of the house is really lovely and extraordinary. The Timber Framed Alsatian Houses are generally prominent in old Strasbourg. The strategies for erection are with substantial timbers instead of degree wood. Just go and feel the most wonderful regions in Strasbourg city. Where the stream Ill parts up into a different waterways and cross through a little territory of medieval half-timbered houses and rococo sandstone structures. It is basic spot in wooden timber house subsequent to nineteenth century. The strategy originates from making things out of logs and tree trunks without cutting edge innovative saws to cut timber from the beginning material stock. These Timber Framed Alsatian Houses are every now and again amass by the kind of establishment, dividers, how and where the pillars meet, and the utilization of twist timbers. Timber Framed Alsatian Houses are the procedure of making the building utilizing overwhelming squared-off and precisely fitted and associate timbers with joints secured by immense wooden pin. All over the place, Alsacian Romanesque chapels received the Latin cross, that is to say that the prolonged nave speaks to the longest arm of the cross and the transept shapes the little arm. A tower frequently surmounts the intersection as in Guebwiller or Selestat. Romanesque workmanship is portrayed by solid divider masses and basic shapes in the scene. From the Roman period onwards, numerous military strongholds have been implicit and around Alsace. This amazing design differing qualities is firmly connected to the turbulent history of our locale, which possesses a focal position inside of Europe. It additionally mirrors the fragmentary force structure of the German Holy Roman Empire which saw landowners endeavoring to declare their matchless quality over their neighbors with the assistance of huge sustained structures. Albeit generally decimated amid the seventeenth century, numerous remaining parts from the manors and the sustained towns, holy places and graveyards are today dabbed over the Alsatian scene. ...
Walking among Alsatian Houses
Jan 18, 2015 at 07:29 AM
The amazing Renaissance building of the Maison des Tetes in Colmar keeps on being a noteworthy historic point going back to the seventeenth century which sightseers visit when they investigate the city's primary attractions. Walking among Alsatian Houses gives an amazing feeling. The Alsatian Architecture of the city Strasbourg is dissimilar to other city in France. The structural engineering of the building in Strasbourg is huge and shocking. Alsace is the fifth-littlest of the 27 locales of France in area zone, furthermore the littlest in metropolitan France. Likewise it is one of the seventh-most thickly jammed district in France, the structural planning of the city are astounding and noteworthy. The social frequent of the Alsatian marsh, similar to in different areas of Germany, Alsatian Architecture include of houses developed with dividers fit as a fiddle material in level tiles. This sort of Alsatian Architecture development is extraordinary in bordering parts of Germany, however their specific wealth in Alsace is owed to a few reasons. Alsatian Architecture of half-timbering was found to raise the danger of flame. In past times, individuals of the town started to paint the outfit white in taking after with Beaux-Arts developments. The photos of the house which are demonstrated in the photo are constructed by the nearby stone and flawless in its own particular uniqueness. Walking among Alsatian Houses helps in knowing about the history. The impact of Venice on the advancement of building design and grand expressions is significant; first through the Serenissima's fondachi or exchanging stations, along the Dalmatian coast, in Asia Minor and in Egypt, in the Ionian's islands Sea, the Peloponnesus, Crete, and Cyprus, where the landmarks were unmistakably assembled taking after Venetian models. In any case, when it started to lose its control over the oceans, Venice applied its impact in an altogether different way, on account of its awesome painters. Bellini and Giorgione, then Tiziano, Tintoretto, Veronese and Tiepolo totally changed the impression of space, light and shading along these lines leaving a conclusive imprint on the improvement of painting and embellishing expressions in the entire of Europe. People love walking among Alsatian Houses especially at evening. ...
Timber Houses at Night
Dec 14, 2014 at 06:36 PM
The old town center of Colmar is classified under protection and has been carefully restored throughout time in order to preserve its rich historical and architectural heritage. This is the image of a Timber Houses at Night in Colmar, Alsace. In Colmar, you will witness German as well as French architecture around the city and its old town well preserved and maintained in its buildings and monuments. The form of the building in the city is mostly plan in a traditional design. The design of Timber Houses at Night is the most attracting system design in Colmar, Alsace. The house in the town is mostly cast by a quality wooden timber. Timber Houses at Night and post-and-beam are structure near the famous river bank of Ill in Colmar. The procedure of building with heavy timbers rather than extent lumber. The cozy and typical atmosphere of Alsace, with pleasant and charming small streets, all with beautiful and decorated stores and cafe are there around the area river bank in Colmar. Colmar, Alsace historic town center is on an island and therefore is close by water. Where the river Ill divide up into various canals and run through a small area of medieval Half-Timbered Houses and baroque sandstone buildings. The process comes from making things out of logs and tree trunks. These processes are often classified by the type of foundation, walls, how and where the beams crossing and the use of curved timbers. Most Alsace wines are white wines, in the German custom; Alsace vineyards are well known for their Sylvaners, Rieslings and Gewurtzraminers, wines that are not delivered anyplace else in France, but rather are created in German vineyard zones. The less expensive Alsace wines are Edelzwicker and Sylvaner, the most costly ones are the Gewurtzraminer, extraordinarily those known as "vendanges tardives", which means late collected grapes, which create firmly enjoyed wines that are brilliant as an aperitif. Alsace is well known for its lager (for instance, Kronenbourg or Meteor), its sauerkraut (choucroute in French), and a few other neighborhood specialities, for example, Alsace Flammekueche, a conventional dish that is much the same as a pizza without tomatoes, but rather secured with cheddar, cream, mushrooms and nearby ham. Another nearby claim to fame is Alsatian gingerbread, known as Pain d'Epices. ...
Reflection in the Lauch River
Dec 12, 2014 at 06:09 AM
Gaze toward the houses in the city of Colmar and witness the sweet and intriguing specifying of the stylistic theme on the overhangs, including astounding wooden edge, ceramics, porcelain and the sky is the limit from there. You can see the Reflection in the Lauch River of houses which looks really beautiful. Timber Frame House is the most widely recognized structure of building in the city of Colmar, Alsace. Alsatian Architecture timber Framed House is a standard sight in Alsace town, basically in the conventional old downtown areas and towns. Alsatian Architecture excellent Timber Framed House and post-and-bar are essentially constructed close to the waterway bank in city of Strasbourg. The method for development with substantial timbers as opposed to extend lumber. The snuggled up and commonplace air of Alsace town, with charming and beautiful little lanes, all with amazing and finished stores and eatery arrive around the waterway bank in Colmar, Alsace. Colmar town fixate is on an island and subsequently is near to water. These plans are generally isolated by the sort of establishment, dividers, how and where the pillars cross, and the utilization of bended timbers. Alsatian Architecture timber Framed House is the arrangement of making the building painstakingly fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by enormous wooden pegs. Demand yourself to stay in the wonderful timber encircled house when you are in Colmar, Alsace. Due to water everywhere Reflection in the Lauch River looks so beautiful that one can continuously watch it for a long time. Another fascinating exhibition hall in Colmar is the Musee Bartholdi. Bartholdi, maker of the Statue of Liberty in New York, was conceived in Colmar and the exhibition hall keeps a pitch duplicate together with different articles and plastic models. One lobby of the exhibition hall is held for Jewish workmanship. An extremely inquisitive and intriguing historical center for both kids and grown-ups is the Museum of Toys and Trains, with different samples of toys of the past and the duplicate of a town with moving model trains. Other Colmar historical centers incorporate the Albert Schweitzer Museum (Rue Munster), and the Museum of Natural History and Ethnography. Reflection in the Lauch River makes the city look ...
The Bridge of the Petite
Dec 29, 2014 at 07:21 PM
Colmar is a popular tourist destination for those wishing to brush up on their Alsatian culture knowledge mainly due to the fact that this town has a rich and well preserved historical and architectural heritage. The Bridge of the Petite which shown in the picture is massive and beauty in its own nature. The Bridge of the Petite is situated over the launch river of the city Strasbourg. The city Strasbourg is the heart of the beauty, historical building and important landmarks also located at the city of Strasbourg. The view of the city Strasbourg is lovely and truly massive. The city of Strasbourg is one of a beautiful city in France. It is also one of the famous tourist spot in France. The historical monument and The Bridge of the Petite is the most attractive landmarks in the city of Strasbourg. Located close with the border of Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhine department. The city and the district of Alsace were ancient Alemannic-speaking. In term of economic Strasbourg is an important zone of manufacturing and engineering, as well as a hub of road, rail, and river transportation. The structure of the Beautiful Bridge in Strasbourg city is made in historic design. The bridge is surrounded by the historical building. Colmar is a transportation center point on the eastern edge of the district of Alsace, west of the Vosges Mountains foothills. It is a port, lying along the Lauch River, around 16 miles west of the German fringe. The town is connected to the Rhine River that is 10 miles toward the east by the Logelbach Canal. Strasbourg is 42 miles toward the north. Courses National 4 and 83 join the A35 Autoroute at Colmar, which is on the Basel, Mulhouse, and Strasbourg rail line. The most punctual composed reference to Colmar was in a ninth century account of Charlemagne's Saxon wars. In 1226, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II made it a free, magnificent city. In 1632, Sweden possessed the town amid the Thirty Years' War. Be that as it may, in 1635, the town was in the hands of Louis XIII of France. Amid the period, initiating in 1648, the town was steadily added by France. In 1673, Colmar turned into the French's capital region of Alsace ...
Shopping in Colmar
Jan 13, 2015 at 06:22 PM
Here in this sunny picture you can easily watch the brightness of sunlight falling on the wall of buildings of Colmar in France, which can attract to anyone because of the natural beauty. Shopping in Colmar is an amazing feeling. These buildings are really the market area of the Colmar where anybody can do the purchasing of his or her daily usages. Even you can take the train for Paris from Alsatian city of Colmar. It is known as the famous Alsation town of the Alsace. Colmar is famous for its rich engineering technologies. Guests may start a voyage through Colmar at the Place de la Cathedrale, in the very heart of Colmar's old town. On this square is the Collegiale Saint-Martin (Saint-Martin Collegiate Church), initially a Gothic church that was to a great extent modified in the eighteenth century. People specially come for Shopping in Colmar because it is very famous. Another critical notable landmark on the Place de la Cathedrale is the Ancien Corps de Garde (Former Guard House) which has filled some needs, from a commercial center building to an equity corridor and military lodging. This noteworthy building is a gem of Alsatian Renaissance construction modeling. The Maison Adolph additionally graces the square at 16 Place de la Cathedrale. Implicit 1350 for the Adolph family, this flawless house is one of the most established structures in Colmar. By the Maison Adolph is a well including two lion heads that dates to 1592. Overall a good place to visit. In the Krutenau region, the city offers path to the town climate that is run of the mill of conventional Alsace. Those with a fondness for half-timbered houses will by and by be enchanted by seeing the region, which is abutted by a stream – the Lauch – which earned it the Little's name "Venice of Alsace". Truly, it would be more exact to call it "Little Bruges" on the grounds that, dissimilar to in Venice, there is one and only waterway serving the area: the beautiful Lauch. The little 45 km long waterway keeps running from the Vosges and crosses the town of Guebwiller, before entering the Alsace Plain. It streams into the Ill River in the edges west of Colmar. There are a large number of bazars here that’s why Shopping in Colmar is so famous. ...
The Schwendi Fountain
Feb 19, 2015 at 08:44 PM
The Schwendi Fountain in Colmar town, build in tribute to Admiral Armand-Joseph Bruat who was conceived in Colmar, is the work of art of Auguste Bartholdi and was dispatch in 1864. It was the first and final in Colmar to have a structure to stream water. The Schwendi Fountain spoke to the illustration of the four landmasses. The bronze statue was restored and put on another wellspring developed by stone worker Choain and engineer Porte. The first sandstone heads are spot at the Bartholdi Museum. There are such a variety of wonderful artworks, staircases, pretty steeds, great lights and awesome carriages on the vintage 100 year old Carrousel, the most established carrousel in Colmar Town. The old town of Colmar offers voyagers going by its avenues a clue of just about one thousand years of European authentic legacy. It is the seat of the prefecture of the Rhine division. The town is arranged at the Alsatian Wine Route. The city is eminent for its well ensures old town, its few design historic points and its exhibition halls, which is the Unterlinden Museum with the Isenheim Altarpiece. Colmar was established in the ninth century. The Schwendi Fountain is spot at the heart of the town and it is one of the pulled in pieces in Colmar. Keep touring on the Grand Rue (a short leave) and visit the Eglise Saint-Matthieu, a thirteenth century Protestant church. An absolute necessity see fascination close-by is the Maison Pfister at the Rue's side Merciere and the Rue des Marchands. Mixing medieval and Renaissance styles, this building is one of the finest old houses in Colmar. The house was implicit 1537 for Ludwig Scherer, a hatter who profited exchanging. On the Rue des Marchands is the Bartholdi Museum that shows tokens of the renowned stone worker Auguste Bartholdi who was conceived here. Next, walk around the Rue des Boulangers (Bakers' road) and the Rue des Serruriers (Locksmiths' Street) to respect the pleasant half-timbered houses. Make certain to stop before 19 Rue des Tetes, to see the Maison des Tetes (the "Place of Heads"). This elaborate Renaissance building elements a veneer finished with little busts and the characteristics of diverse personages. The building is presently possessed by a five-star lodging with a prestigious gastronomic eatery. ...
Night in Old Town
Jan 03, 2015 at 05:57 AM
The picture is of wonderful house Lights at Night in Old Town of Colmar, turn upward and witness the sweet and intriguing enumerating of the stylistic layout on the overhangs, including flowerbeds, porcelain and that's only the tip of the iceberg. Night in Old Town is really amazing. Timber Frame House is the most widely recognized structure of building in the city of Strasbourg. Alsatian House wooden timber Framed House is a typical sight in the town, for the most part in the conventional old downtown areas and towns. Alsatian House astounding Timber Framed House and post-and-pillar are development close to the stream bank in city of Colmar, Alsace. Night in Old Town will make you feel great. The systems for making with overwhelming timbers instead of degree wood. The comfy and run of the mill environment of Alsace town, with charming and captivating little lanes, all with marvelous and finished stores and eatery arrive around the stream bank in Colmar. Colmar town fixate is on an island and accordingly is encompassed by water. Where the stream parts up into a few trenches and falls through a little region of half-timbered houses and elaborate sandstone structures. Alsatian Architecture timber Framed building is the technique of making the development legitimately fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by gigantic wooden pin. After experiencing the Night in Old Town you will stay amazed for a long time. A fantastic sample of right on time Gothic building design, the Dominican Church was established in 1283 and development started in the fourteenth century. With its straightforward and tranquil construction modeling, the congregation offers an understanding into the lives of the Dominican evangelists. This panhandler request added to the enthusiasm for otherworldly logic amid the fourteenth and fifteenth hundreds of years. Amazing recolored glass windows permit light to stream into the haven and offer motivation to admirers. The choir shows the well-known "Virgin of the Rose Garden," a magnum opus painted by Martin Schongauer in 1473. Some portion of the congregation involves the previous Dominican religious community, with a fourteenth century order once utilized for serenade shows. The order now houses the Municipal Library of obsolescent original copies. From the Dominican Church, it is a short stroll to the Rue des Clefs, the principle shopping road of Colmar's Old Town. ...
St. Martin Church in Colmar
Feb 17, 2015 at 11:53 PM
St. Martin Church in Colmar, was developed in a wonderful Gothic building style complete in the late fourteenth century. The given picture is the picture of St. Martin Church in Colmar. The St. Martin Church in Colmar in Canterbury, England, arranged a long way from the downtown area, is the first and final church established in England; additionally it is the most seasoned Parish church in consistent utilization, furthermore the most seasoned church in the entire English-talking world. The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Martin is one of the most seasoned houses of worship in Colmar going back to the fourteenth century. Because of the dim inside of the English St Martin, the environment and atmosphere encompassing you is to some degree cool and dinky supplementing its Gothic external structural engineering appeal. Since from the year 1668 the congregation has been a piece of the benefice of St. Martin Church in Colmar and St Paul Canterbury. Both the congregation of St Martin's and close-by St Paul's houses of worship is utilized for week after week administrations. Nearby finds demonstrate that Christianity did exist here of the city at the time. Toward the end of the congregation the block last of a Roman tomb were coordinated into the structure. Different areas of dividers are plainly early, and it is conceivable that a chock square-headed entryway in the chancel. There are an assortment of fascinating medieval models on the outside, including two illustrations of the Anti-Semitic Judensau: one fit as a fiddle of a beast, the other showing up toward the side of an entry. Inside, the most prominent part of the nave is the arrangement of the thirteenth century recolored glass windows, portraying scriptural stories, for example, the Last Supper, Abraham and Isaac and the Ascension of Elijah. The High Gothic choir dates from 1350-66. It incorporates a wandering, an uncommon element in Alsatian temples, and emanating houses of prayer containing medieval sacrificial stones and statues. The inside likewise highlights an amazing Baroque organ: its case dates from 1755 and the inward instrument, initially by Johann Andreas Silbermann, were supplanted in 1979. ...
