a city of France, capital of the department of Haut Rhin, and of a cognominal arrondissement; and the seat of a royal court for the departments of Haut and Bas Rhin, with tribunals of primary instance and commerce. It is for the most part well built, and is pleasantly situated on the Lauch and Fecht, tributaries of the Ill, 40 miles S.S.W. of Strasbourg, with which it is connected by railway. The most remarkable edifice is the cathedral, a Gothic structure, built in 1363. Among the other public buildings are the palace of justice, hôtel-de-ville, college (with a public library of 36,000 volumes), deaf-mute institution, civil and military hospitals, theatre, museum, and the churches of the Dominicans and the Trinity. It has extensive manufactures of cottons, hosiery, ribands, paper, and leather. In the thirteenth century Colmar was made a free imperial city; and was united to France in 1697 by the treaty of Ryswick. Pop. (1851) of city, 19,153; of arrondissement, 221,682.