Strasbourg

Pictures taken in Strasbourg, France, on our Summer Holiday 2010
L'Aubette and the statue of Jean-Baptiste Kléber The Strasbourg Aubette building is built in classical style. Former military building serving as a barrack and guard house. Now a leisure center. It was built in 1765-1778 by Jacques-François Blondel. In the centre of this Kléber square is the statue of Jean Baptiste Kléber. After his slaughter in 1800 in Cairo, the body of Jean-Baptiste Kléber, general during the French Revolutionary Wars born in Strasbourg in 1753, was repatriated to France. Napoleon, fearing that his tomb would become a symbol to Republicanism, ordered it to stay at the Château d'If, on an island near Marseille. It stayed there for 18 years until Louis XVIII granted him a burial place in his hometown in Strasbourg. He was buried on 15 December 1838 below his statue located in the middle of Place Kléber. The statue, designed by Philippe Grass, was finally completed in 1838. : 2010, Aubette, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, building, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, rakennus Le Neubau The Neubau, was built in 1585 to house the city's administrative services, and is the oldest Renaissance building in Strasbourg. Its Classical-style 16th century facade rises up over 3 levels, decorated by Greek-style columns. After the destruction in 1781 of the Pfalz, the former headquarters of the Magistrate and the Councils, the Neubau became the City Hall for a short period. Devastated by the revolutionaries in 1793, it became the Chamber of Commerce in 1808. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Gutenberg Monument Gutenberg monument, erected in 1840 and created by David d'Angers (1788-1856). Bronze on a granite base, with four bronze relief panels. Johannes Gensfleisch Gutenberg was born in Mainz on the River Rhine, but it was in Strasbourg, between 1430 and 1440, that Gutenberg made his first attempts at printing with movable type. : 2010, France, Gutenberg Monument, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Half-timbered house A beautiful half-timbered house in the corner of rue Mercière and rue du Vieux-Marché-aux-Poissons, built in 1669 as a private town house. Now there's L. Bollinger souvenir shop.
Narrow house A narrow house on Rue du Vieux Marché aux Poissons, very close to the Place Gutenberg : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Antique dealer Antique dealer sign on Place du Marcé aux Poissons : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Place de la Cathedrale On the left is one of oldest buildings in Strasbourg, Pharmacie du Cerf. The earliest mention of this building is from 1268. The house was rebuilt in the fifteenth century. Its timbered upper floors were completed in 1567. Hotel Cathedrale building was originally built in 1895 and heavily modified in 1904 by architects Théodore and Edouard Wagner : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Place du Marché aux Cochons de Lait The building on the left is from 1600, privately owned townhouse. The Cathedral can be seen in the background. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Place du Marché aux Cochons de Lait, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma
Maison Kammerzell Maison Kammerzell is the finest old burgher's house in the city. Considered a gem of Alsatian architecture, the Kammerzell House features a stone-built ground floor, half-timbered upper floors, traditional leaded windows, and rich carved ornamentation. The building's ground floor with its carved stone arches served as a space where merchants sold their wares during the 15th century. Built in 1427 but twice transformed in 1467 and 1589, the building as it is now historically belongs to the German Renaissance but is stylistically still attached to the Rhineland black and white timber-framed style of civil architecture. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Maison Kammerzell, Ranska, Strasbourg, building, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, rakennus 15th Century town house Town house built in 1467-1469. Year 1567 on the corner column means the expansion upwards. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, building, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, rakennus Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg. Although considerable parts of it are still in Romanesque architecture, it is widely considered to be among the finest examples of high, or late, Gothic architecture. Erwin von Steinbach is credited for major contributions from 1277 to his death in 1318. At 142 metres, it was the world's tallest building from 1647 to 1874. Today it is the sixth-tallest church in the world and the highest extant structure built entirely in the Middle Ages. The site of the Strasbourg cathedral was used for several successive religious buildings, starting from the Argentoratum period (when a Roman sanctuary occupied the site) up to the building that is there today. It is known that a cathedral was erected by the bishop Saint Arbogast of the Strasbourg diocese at the end of the seventh century, on the base of a temple dedicated to the Virgin Mary, but nothing remains of it today. Strasbourg's previous cathedral, of which remains dating back to the late 4th century or early 5th century were unearthed in 1948 and 1956, was situated at the site of the current Église Saint-Étienne. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, cathedral, city, historia, history, katedraali, kaupunki, loma Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg Rudolph I (also known as Rudolph of Habsburg) (1 May 1218 – 15 July 1291) was King of the Romans from 1273 until his death. Rudolph was crowned in Aachen Cathedral on 24 October 1273. Rudolph's reign is most memorable for his establishment of the House of Habsburg as a powerful dynasty in the southeastern parts of the realm. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Rudolph I, Strasbourg, cathedral, city, historia, history, katedraali, kaupunki, loma
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg In 1505, architect Jakob von Landshut and sculptor Hans von Aachen finished rebuilding the Saint-Lawrence portal (Portail Saint-Laurent) outside the northern transept in a markedly post-Gothic, early-Renaissance style. As with the other portals of the Cathedral, most of the statues now to be seen in situ are copies, the originals having been moved to the Musée de l’Œuvre Notre-Dame. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, cathedral, city, historia, history, katedraali, kaupunki, loma 24 Place de la Cathédrale Strange sign on the corner of the building, a silhouette of the cathedral wearing a Phrygian cap. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Rue du Maroquin Rue du Maroquin has been in existence since 1266, when it was called Kurdewenregasse. It now contains houses of various ages, oldest are from the 15th century and newest are built around 1800 or so. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma 24 Place de la Cathédrale 4 floor building, built in 1772. Nice grills above one door. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma
17 Rue du Dome This house was built in 1753 in Rococo style by merchant Claude Sare. This sculpture is very likely representing Venus. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Rue du 22 Novembre The Grande Percée, a project undertaken from 1910, was intended to clear out the city centre by pulling down areas of what was considered insalubrious housing and to modernise it by driving a major road through it, which would be lined with shops with flats above them. The construction of a large store, what is now Galeries Lafayette, was the subject of a competition in 1912, won by architects Jules Berninger and Gustave Krafft. The streets named "Rue du 22 novembre" in Strasbourg and Mulhouse commemorate the union of Alsace to France. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Hotel de Ville Strasbourg town hall, also known as Hôtel de Hanau-Licthenberg, was built in 1728-1730 by architect Joseph Massol. It is still in use. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, building, city, historia, history, kaupungintalo, kaupunki, loma, rakennus, town hall Opera Former Napoleon Theatre, now Opera. The old municipal theatre and current opera was built in 1821 in neoclassical style. Its extension to the rear was designed by Johann-Carl Ott in 1888 and helped link the historical centre to the Neustadt. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Opera, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma
Lonely dog A lonely dog staring out of the window. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Palais du Rhin The Palais du Rhin, the former Kaiserpalast (Imperial palace), is a building situated in the German quarter of Strasbourg, dominating the Place de la République (the former Kaiserplatz) with its massive dome. After the Franco-Prussian War, Strasbourg, then German, was faced with the question of an official residence for the Kaiser. The decision was made to create a building symbolic of imperial power, and after much debate, a square Neo-Renaissance design was chosen, remotely inspired by the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The architect was Hermann Eggert (1844–1920), who had already built, among other things, the Observatory of Strasbourg. Work began on March 22, 1884 in honour of William I's 87th birthday, and construction took five years. In 1923, the palace passed hands to the French state and today houses the department of fine arts and the national furniture of Alsace-Lorraine. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Palais du Rhin, Ranska, Strasbourg, building, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, rakennus War memorial at Place de la République The war memorial of a mother with her two sons in the center of the Place de la République is a reminder of the plight of so many families in the Alsace region at a time when the region was at one time French, then German, then French. The memorial, created in the 1930s, is a Pietà – a statue of a mother holding her dead son, or in this case, the mother is holding her two dying sons. The sculptor, Leo-Ernest Drivier, designed the memorial with the intent that each of the two sons had fought for a different country, one France and one Germany. They fought to the death, but as a reminder of family ties, they hold hands in their last moments. Although the memorial is for the dead in World War I, there is no country named on the base of the statue – it simply reads “Our Dead” in memory of the people who died, no matter which country they happened to be fighting for. The dates of additional wars after the inauguration of the memorial have been added to the base. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire After the destruction of the municipal library and the city's archives by Prussian artillery during the Siege of Strasbourg, the German Empire founded the BNU on 19 June 1872. The task of arranging its collections was given to historian and professor, Rodolphe Reuss. It became the regional library for the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine, as, according to German tradition, every region should have at least one library. It was also an Academic library. The present-day building, which is a work of architects August Hartel and Skjold Neckelmann, was opened in 1895. : 2010, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, building, city, historia, history, kaupunki, kirjasto, library, loma, rakennus
National Theatre of Strasbourg The National Theatre of Strasbourg is a palatial building on Strasbourg's Place de la République, now occupied by a theatre company of the same name, the National Theatre of Strasbourg (Théatre national de Strasbourg - TNS). The TNS building was originally built to house the legislative assembly of the regional parliament of Alsace-Lorraine, after the area came under German control with the Treaty of Frankfurt (1871). It was built between 1888 and 1892 in neoclassical style by the architect partners August Hartel and Skjold Neckelmann. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, National Theatre of Strasbourg, Ranska, Strasbourg, building, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, rakennus Pont du Théatre Pont du Théatre was built in 1870. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Pont du Théatre, Ranska, Strasbourg, bridge, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, silta Police force on the go Policemen on bicycles patrolling the river bank. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, police, poliisi Passerelle du Faux Rempart A small pedestrian bridge over river L'Ill, completed in 1901. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Passerelle du Faux Rempart, Ranska, Strasbourg, bridge, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, silta
Quai des Pêcheurs This street was built in 1438 following the bank of river Ill, although buildings seen here are mostly built in the 19th century, some even 20th century. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Krutenau, Quai des Pêcheurs, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma A rest by the river Three women having a break sitting on the bank of river Ill. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, picnic, rest, tauko Abandoned bicycle Nice yellow bicycle thrown away and almost ending up in the river. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Saint Nicholas Church The church was built between 1387 and 1454 on the site of an earlier church dedicated to Mary Magdalene. This earlier church, which dated from 1182, was founded by the Knight Walther Spender and had been built on the site of a small Roman fort. The tower with its tapering spire was erected in 1585 . The interior was remodeled during the 17th Century. Jean Calvin led services and preached at this church in 1538. Albert Schweitzer was the pastor of the church from 1900 to 1913 and used to play the organ there. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Saint Nicholas, Strasbourg, church, city, historia, history, kaupunki, kirkko, loma, religion, uskonto
Zum Spiess This building was in existence in 1630, when it was called Zum Spiess (name of the owner at the time, Christophe-Philippe Spiess). From the late 17th century until 1865 it served as a brevery and inn, until it was converted into apartments. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Beautiful restaurant sign Another nice old style, and probably also old, restaurant sign. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Pont Saint-Guillaume and Église Saint-Guillaume Saint William's Church is a gothic church presently of the Lutheran Protestant Church of Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine. Returning unharmed from the Crusades, the knight Henri de Müllenheim undertook the construction of a monastery for the Hermits of Saint William, an order of mendicant monks, in this marshy neighbourhood situated extra muros, that is, beyond the city walls. The elongated building, consecrated in 1301 and realised in 1307, is the only remnant of this group. Entirely brick and unvaulted, the church corresponds well to the ideal of the order, namely by its single nave and the simplicity of its exterior form. Sheltered by a pitched roof, its nave is topped and prolonged by a deep polygonal choir illuminated by high windows, which betrays its original function as the monks' meeting room. In 1331, by reason of its proximity to the port and wharfs, the church was chosen as parish by the newly established corporation of shipbuilders. The first bridge was built here in 1279, called Stephans-brücke. The current one is from 1896. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Saint Guillaume, Strasbourg. silta, bridge, church, city, historia, history, kaupunki, kirkko, loma Quai des Moulins The house in the center was built in 1761 and shows the monogram of the owner IDF (Johann Daniel Friedel). The one on the left was built in 1750. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma
6 rue des Moulins Built c. 1600. This building once belonged to Dreyfus tannery. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Ponts couverts Covered Bridges. These have kept their name despite the fact that they lost their roofs back on the 18th century. They are overlooked by four towers dating from the 14th century, which are the remains of the former ramparts that once guaranteed the independence of the former Strasbourg Republic. Immediately after the absorption of Strasbourg by France in 1681, a new ring of fortifications was built here by Vauban. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ponts couverts, Ranska, Strasbourg, bridge, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, silta Barrage Vauban The Barrage Vauban is a weir erected in the 17th century on the river Ill west of the "Petite France" district in Strasbourg. It was constructed from 1686 to 1700 by the French Engineer Jacques Tarade according to plans by Vauban : 2010, Barrage Vauban, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, bridge, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, silta River cruise A bunch of tourists on a river cruise along the river Ill. : 2010, France, Holiday, Ill, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, joki, kaupunki, loma, river
Palais Rohan (Musée des Beaux-Arts and Musée des Arts Décoratifs) The elegant 18th-century Palais des Rohan was the former residences of the Bishop-Princes from 1732 to 1742 (until the French Revolution). The rest of the immense building houses three exceptional museums. Located on the first floor of the Rohan Palace, the Musée des Beaux-Arts (Museum of Fine Arts) has an excellent collection of paintings by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, and French masters from the Middle Ages to modern times. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Museum of Decorative Arts) is located on the ground floor of the Rohan Palace, the former apartments of the Cardinals of Rohan. Visitors can see the sumptuous rooms of the bishop's apartment, including a library, print room, and chapel, as well as the collection of decorative arts. The collection includes ceramics, porcelain, paintings, time pieces, and goldsmith's art. Located in the Rohan Palace basement, the Archaeological Museum has one of the best collections of antiquities in France. The collection includes items from prehistory to the Middle Ages. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Palais Rohan, Ranska, Strasbourg, building, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, museo, museum, rakennus Snow white and 14 dwarfs and a goose. Kinda strange collection. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Droguerie du Cygne Earlier there were two houses, which were purchased in 1657 by a brewer, Jean-Michel Mosseter, who gave the house the sign of the swan "Zum Schwanen" Bierhaus, (1725). An original plaque with a swan surrounded by branches is still there, even though the present house is a 1787 reconstruction. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Restaurant Suzanne Nice sign of Restaurant Suzanne, on 25 Rue du 22 Novembre. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, ravintola, restaurant, sign
23 rue des Veaux A half-timbered house built in 1570 according to an inscription on the ground floor. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, building, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, rakennus 1 place du Marché-aux-Cochons-de-Lait This house was built in 1606. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, building, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma, rakennus Rue des Dentelles A narrow street which was built in 1233. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma 10 rue des Dentelles A 16th century town house on Rue des Dentelles. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma
Rue du Bain aux Plantes This street dates back to 1279 when it was known as Der Werd genant Glanzhof. It got it's current name in 1786. There are a lot of nice half-timbered houses from the 15th and 16th century. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Historical town houses Old town houses around La Petite France-area : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma Creating art An artist at work. : 2010, France, Holiday, Keski-Eurooppa, Ranska, Strasbourg, city, historia, history, kaupunki, loma