Strasbourg

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Ville de Strasbourg
City flag	City coat of arms
Location
Coordinates	48°35′04″N, 07°44′55″E
Time Zone	CET (GMT +1)
Administration
Country	France
Région	Alsace
Département	Bas-Rhin (67)
Intercommunality	Urban Community of Strasbourg
Mayor	Fabienne Keller  (UMP) (since 2001)
City Statistics
Land area¹	78.26 km²
Population²	7th in France
- 2004 estimate	272,800
- Density	3,486/km² (2004)
Urban Spread
Urban Area	222 km² (1999[1])
- Population	264,115 (1999[1])
Metro Area	1,351.5 km² (1999[1])
- Population	612,104 (1999[2])
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

For other places named Strasburg or Straßburg see Strasburg.

Strasbourg (French: Strasbourg, pronounced /stʀazbuʀ/; Alsatian: Strossburi; German: Straßburg) is the capital and principal city of the Alsace région of northeastern France, with approximately 650,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 1999. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the préfecture (capital) of the Bas-Rhin département.

The city's Germanic name means "town (at the crossing) of roads". Stras- is cognate to the English street from the German equivalent of the word, Straße, while -bourg from the German -burg ("fortress, town") is cognate to the English borough.

Strasbourg is an important centre of manufacturing and engineering, as well as of road, rail and river communications.

Strasbourg is the seat of the Council of Europe, of the European Court of Human Rights and of the European Parliament, though the latter also holds sessions in Brussels.

[edit] Geography

Strasbourg is situated on the Ill River, where it flows into the Rhine on the frontier with Germany. The German town across the Rhine is Kehl. The city is situated in the Vallée du Rhin (Rhine valley), approximately 20 kms east of the Vosges mountains and 25 kms west of the Black Forest. Winds coming from either direction being generally held up, summer temperatures can be inordinately high. The defective natural ventilation also makes Strasbourg one of the most atmospherically polluted cities of France, although the progressive disappearance of heavy industry as well as effective measures of traffic regulation in and around the city are showing encouraging results.

[edit] History

At the site of Strasbourg, the Romans established a military outpost and named it Argentoratum. It belonged to the Germania Superior Roman province. From the 4th century, Strasbourg was the seat of the Archbishopric Strasbourg.

The Alamanni fought a battle against Rome in Strasbourg in 357. They were defeated by Julian, later Emperor of Rome, and their king Chonodomarius was taken prisoner. On January 2, 366 the Alamanni crossed the frozen Rhine in large numbers, to invade the Roman Empire. Early in the 5th century the Alamanni appear to have crossed the Rhine, conquered, and then settled what is today Alsace and a large part of Switzerland.

View of Straßburg in 1493 showing the Straßburger Münster

The town was occupied successively in the 5th century by Alamanni, Huns and Franks, who gave it its present name. In 842, Strasbourg was the site of the Oath of Strasbourg, the trilingual text of which is considered to contain, besides Latin and German, also the oldest written document in the French language. A major commercial centre, the town came under control of the Holy Roman Empire in 923, through the homage paid by the Duke of Lorraine to German King Henry I. The early history of Strasbourg consists of a long conflict between its bishop and its citizens. The citizens emerged victorious after the Battle of Oberhausbergen in 1262, when King Philip of Swabia granted the city the status of an Imperial Free City.

A revolution in 1332 resulted in a broad-based city government with participation of the guilds, and Strasbourg declared itself a free republic. The Straßburger Münster was completed in 1439, and became the World's Tallest Building, surpassing the Great Pyramid of Giza. During the 1520s the city embraced the religious teachings of Martin Luther, whose adherents established a university in the following century. Strasbourg was a centre of humanist scholarship and early bookprinting in the Holy Roman Empire and its intellectual and political influence contributed much to the establishment of Protestantism as an accepted denomination in the southwest of Germany. Together with four other free cities, Strasbourg presented the confessio tetrapolitana as her Protestant book of faith at the Imperial Diet of Augsburg in 1530, where also the slightly different Augsburg confession was handed over to the emperor.

After the reform of the Imperial constitution in the early 16th century and the establishment of "Imperial Circles" (Reichskreise), Strasbourg was part of the "Upper Rhenish Circle", a corporation of Imperial estates in the southwest of the empire, mainly responsible for maintaining troops, supervising coining, and ensuring public security.

During the Thirty Years' War, the Free City of Strasbourg remained neutral. However, it was suddenly seized by King Louis XIV of France in September 1681, whose unprovoked annexation was recognised by the Treaty of Ryswick (1697). The official policy of religious intolerance which drove many Protestants from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1598) by the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685) was not applied in Strasbourg and in Alsace. Strasbourg cathedral, however, had to be handed over from the Lutherans to the Catholics. The German Lutheran university persisted until the French revolution. Famous students were Goethe and Herder.

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle composed "La Marseillaise" on April 25, 1792, in Strasbourg during a dinner organised by Frédéric de Dietrich, Strasbourg's mayor. However, Strasbourg's status as a free city was revoked by the French Revolution.

1888 German map of Strasbourg

With the growth of industry and commerce, the city's population tripled in the 19th century to 150,000. Annexed to the newly-established German Empire, as part of the Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, in 1871, following the Franco-Prussian War (Treaty of Frankfurt), the city was restored to France after World War I, in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles without a plebiscite, the outcome of which might not have been too convincing from the French point of view. This was because Strasbourg was almost exclusively German-speaking and Reichstag election results before the war revealed only a small percentage of votes for pro-French political parties. It was again effectively a part of Germany during World War II, from 1940 to 1944.

In 1920, Strasbourg became the seat of the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine, previously located in Mannheim, one of the very first European institutions. In 1949, the city was chosen to be the site of the Council of Europe, and since 1979, Strasbourg has been a seat of the European Parliament, although sessions are held in Strasbourg only four days each month, with all other business being conducted in Brussels. Those sessions take place in the Immeuble Louise Weiss (also known as "IPE IV"), built in 1998, which houses the largest parliamentary assembly room in Europe and of any democratic institution in the world. Before that, the EP sessions had to take place in the main CoE building, the Palais de l'Europe, whose unusual inner architecture had become a familiar sight to European TV audiences.

In 1992, Strasbourg became the seat of the Franco-German TV channel and movie-production society Arte.

In 2000, an islamist plot to blow up the cathedral was prevented by German police.

In 2006, after a long and careful restauration, the inner decoration of the Aubette, made in the 1920s by Hans Arp, Theo van Doesburg and Sophie Taeuber-Arp and destroyed in the 1930s, was made accessible to public again. The work of the three artists had been called " the Sistine Chapel of abstract art ".

[edit] Main sights

Strasbourg, Cathedral of Our Lady.

[edit] Architecture

The city is chiefly known for its sandstone Gothic Cathedral with its famous astronomical clock, and for its medieval cityscape of Rhineland black and white timber-framed buildings, particularly in the Petite-France district alongside the Ill and in the streets and squares surrounding the cathedral, where the renowned Maison Kammerzell stands out.

Strasbourg's historic centre, the Grande Île (great island), has been classified a World Heritage site by the UNESCO in 1988, the first time such an honor was placed on an entire city centre. In addition to the cathedral, Strasbourg houses several other medieval churches that have survived the many wars and destructions that have plagued the city: the Romanesque Eglise Saint-Etienne, partly destroyed in 1944 by Anglo-American bombing raids, the part Romanesque, part Gothic, very large Eglise Saint-Thomas with its Silbermann organ on which W. A. Mozart and Albert Schweitzer played, the Gothic Eglise Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune protestant with its crypt dating back to the 5th century, the Gothic Eglise Saint-Guillaume with its fine early-Renaissance stained glass and furniture, etc. The Neo-gothic church Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux catholique (there is also an adjacent church Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux protestant) serves as a shrine for several 15th-century woodworked and painted altars coming from other, now destroyed churches and installed there for public display. Among the numerous secular medieval buildings, the monumental Ancienne Douane (old custom-house) stands out.

Maison Kammerzell

The German Renaissance has bequeathed the city some noteworthy buildings (especially the current Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie, former town hall, on Place Gutenberg), as did the French Baroque and Classicism with several palaces, among which the Palais Rohan (now housing three museums) is the most spectacular. Others are the Hôtel du Préfet, the Hôtel des Deux-Ponts and the city-hall Hôtel de Ville (hôtel particulier meaning palace) etc. The largest baroque building of Strasbourg though is the 1720s main building of the Hôpital civil. As for French Neo-classicism, it is the Opera house on Place Broglie that most prestigiously represents this style.

Petite France

The Opéra, with a tram passing by.

Palais du Rhin

The Théâtre national de Strasbourg, former regional parliament (Landtag), another typically large and heavy Wilhelmian building

The Musée Alsacien, consisting of three adjacent old buildings with their respective courtyards and rear aisles. The entrance is seen on the far right

Strasbourg also offers high-class eclecticist buildings in its very extended German district (Place de la République, Place de l'Université, Place Brant, Place Arnold), being the main memory of Wilhelmian architecture since most of the major cities in Germany proper suffered intensive damages during World War II. Streets, boulevards and avenues like Avenue de la Forêt Noire, Avenue des Vosges, Avenue d'Alsace, Avenue de la Marseillaise, Avenue de la Liberté, Boulevard de la Victoire, Rue Sellénick, Rue du Général de Castelnau, Rue du Maréchal Foch and Rue du Maréchal Joffre are homogenous, surprisingly high (up to seven stores) and broad examples of German urban lay-out and of this architectural style that summons and mixes up five centuries of European architecture as well as Neo-Egyptian, Neo-Greek and Neo-Babylonian styles. The former imperial palace Palais du Rhin, the most political and thus heavily criticised of all German Strasbourg buildings epitomises the grand scale and stylistical sturdiness of this period. But the two most handsome and ornate buildings of these times are the École internationale des Pontonniers (the former Jungmädchenschule, young girls school) with its towers, turrets and multiple round and square angles and the École des Arts décoratifs with its lavishly ornate facade of painted bricks, woodwork and majolica.

Impressive examples of prussian military architecture of the 1880s can be found along the newly (re)opened Rue du Rempart, displaying large scale fortifications among which the aptly named Kriegstor (war gate).

As for modern and contemporary architecture, Strasbourg possesses some fine Art Nouveau buildings (the huge Palais des Fêtes, some houses and villas on Avenue de la Robertsau and Rue Sleidan), good examples of post-World War II functional architecture (the Cité Rotterdam, for which Le Corbusier did not succeed in the architectural contest) and, in the very extended Quartier Européen, some spectacular administrative buildings of sometimes utterly large size, among which the European Court of Human Rights by Richard Rogers is arguably the finest. Other noticeable contemporary buildings are the new Music school Cité de la Musique et de la Danse, the Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain and the Hôtel du Département facing it, as well as, in the outskirts, the tramway-station Hoenheim-Nord designed by Zaha Hadid.

Finally, the city is also home to some beautiful bridges, among which the medieval Ponts Couverts with its four towers is the most spectacular.

Panorama of Strasbourg from the Barrage Vauban with the Ponts Couverts in the foreground (the fourth tower being hidden by trees at the left) and the cathedral in the distance.

Next to it is another part of the Vauban fortifications, the Barrage Vauban. Other nice bridges are the ornate 19th-century Pont de la Fonderie (stone) and Pont d'Auvergne (iron), as well as the futuristic Passerelle over the Rhine, opened in 2004.

[edit] Parks

Strasbourg also features a number of prominent parks, of which several are of cultural and historical interest: the Parc de l'Orangerie, created for Joséphine de Beauharnais and displaying noteworthy French gardens, a neo-classical castle and a small zoo; the Parc de la Citadelle, built around impressive remains of the fortifications erected by Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban; the Parc de Pourtalès, laid out in English style around a Neo-baroque castle that now houses the Schiller International University, and featuring an open-air museum of contemporary sculpture (works by Barry Flanagan, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Claudio Parmiggiani, Stephan Balkenhol...). The Jardin Botanique (botanical garden) was created under the German administration next to the Observatory of Strasbourg, built in 1881, and still owns some greenhouses of those times. The Parc des Contades, although the oldest park of the city, was completely remodeled after World War II. The futuristic Parc des Poteries is an example of European park-conception in the late 1990s. The Jardin des deux Rives, spread over Strasbourg and Kehl on both sides of the Rhine, is the most recent (2004) and most extended (60 hectare) park of the agglomeration.

[edit] Museums

For its comparatively small size, Strasbourg displays a large quantity and variety of museums :

1. The Musée des Beaux-Arts owns paintings by Hans Memling, Francisco de Goya, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Giotto di Bondone, Sandro Botticelli, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, El Greco, Correggio, Cima da Conegliano and Piero di Cosimo, among others. (A selection of paintings).
2. The Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame (located in a part-Gothic, part-Renaissance building next to the Cathedral) houses a large and renowned collection of medieval and Renaissance upper-Rhenish art, among which original sculptures, plans and stained glass from the Cathedral and paintings by Hans Baldung and Sebastian Stoskopff. (A selection of works)
3. The Musée d'art moderne et contemporain is among the largest museums of its kind in France.
4. The Musée des Arts décoratifs, located in the sumptuous former residence of the cardinals of Rohan, the palais Rohan, displays a reputable collection of 18th century furniture and china. (Views of the rooms and the collection)
5. The Musée archéologique presents a vast display of regional findings from the first ages of man to the 6th century, focussing especially on the Roman and Celtic period.
6. The very large Musée Alsacien is dedicated to every aspects of traditional alsacian daily life.
7. The Musée zoologique (fr) is one of the oldest in France and is especially famous for its gigantic collection of birds.
8. Le Vaisseau (the vessel) is a science and technology centre, especially designed for children.
9. The Musée historique is closed until June 2007. It is dedicated to the tumultuous history of the city and displays among other things the Grüselhorn, the medieval horn that was blown every evening at 10 to order the Jews out of the city.
10. The Cabinet des estampes et des dessins displays six centuries of drawings and engravings.
11. The Collection Tomi Ungerer (now spread over two locations but soon to be installed in a spacious single building next to the Théâtre national) is dedicated to the artist's original drawings and sketches and to his large collection of ancient toys.
12. The Musée de la Navigation sur le Rhin, also going by the name of Naviscope, located in an old boat, is dedicated to the history of commercial navigation on the Rhine.
13. The Musée de Sismologie et Magnétisme terrestre,
14. the Musée Pasteur and
15. the Musée d'Égyptologie are all three part of the University and only open to public some hours a week.

[edit] Demography

River Ill, seen from the terrace of the Palais Rohan

Today, the metropolitan area of Strasbourg reaches 650,000 inhabitants and the eurodistrict 868,000 inhabitants [1].

[edit] Education

Strasbourg, which was a humanism centre, has a long history of higher-education excellence, melting French and German intellectual traditions. Although Strasbourg had been annexed by Royal France in 1683, it still remained connected to the German-speaking intellectual world throughout the 18th century and the university attracted numerous students from the Holy Roman Empire with Goethe, Metternich and Montgelas, who studied law in Strasbourg, among the most prominent. Nowadays, Strasbourg is known to offer among the best university courses in France, after Paris.

There are three universities in Strasbourg:

• Strasbourg I - Université Louis Pasteur
• Strasbourg II - Université Marc Bloch
• Strasbourg III - Université Robert Schuman

The campus of the École nationale d'administration (ENA) is located in Strasbourg (the former one being in Paris). The location of the "new" ENA - which trains most of the nation's high-ranking civil servants - was meant to give a European vocation to the school.

The École supérieure des Arts décoratifs (ESAD) is an art school of Europe-wide reputation.

The permanent campus of the International Space University (ISU) is located in the south of Strasbourg (Illkirch-Graffenstaden).

[edit] Transport Systems

A modern-looking tram system has operated in Strasbourg since 1994 by the regional transit company Compagnie des Transports Strasbourgeois. A former tram system, partly following a different route, had been operation since 1878 but was ultimately dismantled in 1960.

Two TGV lines are planned to link Strasbourg to the European high-speed train network:

1. TGV Est (Paris-Strasbourg) (under construction, to open 2007)
2. TGV Rhin-Rhône (Strasbourg-Lyon) (to open 2011)

[edit] European role

Immeuble Louise Weiss (technical name : IPE IV) of the European Parliament in Strasbourg

The right angle of the facade of the Council of Europe main building

The European Court of Human Rights

Strasbourg is:

• the seat of the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights (informally known as the "Strasbourg Court"); and
• the first seat of the European Parliament and the only place where the whole parliament regularly meets. (MEPs mostly work in Brussels, Belgium, where the other two main institutions of the EU are headquartered.)
• the seat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
• the seat of the Congress of the Council of Europe (located at the Palais de l'Europe).

Strasbourg also houses the Eurocorps headquarters as well as the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine, the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines ([2]) and the Franco-German television channel, Arte.

France and Germany are creating a Eurodistrict straddling the Rhine, combining the Greater Strasbourg and the Ortenau district of Baden-Württemberg, with some common administration. The combined population of this district is 868,000 [3].

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Births

Strasbourg was the birthplace of:

• Sebastian Brant (1457-1521), satirical poet and humanist
• Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck (1489-1553) protestant statesman and reformist
• Sebastian Stoskopff (1597-1657), painter of still lives
• Johann Fischart (1546-1590), satirical author
• Albrecht Kauw (1621-1681), painter
• François Christophe Kellermann (1735-1820), French marshall
• Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740-1812), painter
• Heinrich Leopold Wagner (1747 - 1779), writer
• Jean Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800), general
• Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786-1868)
• Gustave Doré (1832-1883), painter
• Charles Friedel (1832-1899), chemist and mineralogist
• Emile Waldteufel (Charles Émile Lévy) (1837-1915), composer
• Paul Émile Appell (1855-1930), mathematician
• Hans (Jean) Arp (1886-1966), artist
• Charles Münch (1891-1968), conductor
• Hans Bethe (1906-2005), physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• Hans-Otto Meissner (1909-1992), writer
• Max Bense (1910-1990), philosopher
• Camille Claus (1920-2005), painter
• Marcel Marceau (born 1923), mime
• Tomi Ungerer (born 1931), illustrator and caricaturist
• Conrad Winter (born 1931), poet, Goethe Prize Winner
• Herbert Léonard (born 1945), singer
• Arsène Wenger OBE, (born 1949), football manager
• Yann Wehrling, artist and leader of the french Green Party
• Fréro (born 1971), Emcee, writer & beatmaker
• Valérien Ismaël (born 1975), football player
• Armando Teixeira (born 1976), football player
• Salomé Haller, soprano
• Mehdi Baala, (born 1978), athlete
• Paul-Henri Mathieu (born 1982), tennis-player

[edit] Famous residents

• Maximilian von Montgelas, Bavarian statesman
• Johann Gutenberg (1400-1468), inventor of printing with movable type
• Erasmus (1467-1536), humanist
• Hans Baldung (1484-1545), painter
• Martin Bucer (1491–1551), Reformation leader
• Johannes Sturm (1507-1589), teacher and pedagogue
• John Calvin (1509-1564), Reformation leader
• Tobias Stimmer (1539-1584), Swiss painter
• François-Marie de Broglie (1671-1745), marshall and governor of Strasbourg
• Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789), composer, eminent member of the "Mannheim school".
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), writer, researcher
• King Maximilian I of Bavaria (1756-1825) spent several years in Strasbourg
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), composer - spent 23 days there in 1778.
• Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831) served as Kapellmeister at the Cathedral in 1789
• Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836), composer of the Marseillaise
• Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773-1859), studied in Strasbourg from 1788 to 1790
• Georg Büchner (1813-1837), writer
• Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830-1889), historian
• Louis Pasteur (1830-1895), scientist
• Lujo Brentano (1844–1931), economist
• Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918), physicist, Nobel Prize
• Albrecht Kossel (1853-1927), medical doctor, Nobel Prize
• Georg Simmel (1858–1918), sociologist
• Georges Friedel (1865-1933), mineralogist, son of Charles Friedel
• Hans Pfitzner, (1869-1949) composer
• Jean Jacques Waltz aka. Hansi (1873-1951), artist
• Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), theologian, philosopher, physician and musician
• Paul Rohmer (1876-1977), physician, considered as one of the fathers of modern paediatrics.
• Maurice Halbwachs, (1877-1945), sociologist
• Otto Meißner (1880-1953), politician, father of Hans-Otto Meissner
• Otto Klemperer, (1885-1973), conductor
• Marc Bloch (1886-1944), historian and resistant
• Hans Rosbaud (1895-1962), conductor
• George Szell (1897-1970), conductor
• Emmanuel Lévinas (1906-1995) philosopher
• Lucie Aubrac (born 1912) and Raymond Aubrac (born 1914), founding members of the Résistance.
• Ernest Bour (1913-2001), conductor
• Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), philosopher
• René Thom (1923–2002), mathematician
• Guy Debord (1931-1994), philosopher
• Sarkis (born 1938), painter
• Jean-Marie Lehn (born 1939), Nobel Prize for chemistry 1987
• Georges Aperghis (born 1945), composer
• Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989), playwright
• Barbara Honigmann (born 1949), German writer and painter
• Ségolène Royal (born 1953), leading member of the Parti Socialiste, went to school in Strasbourg.
• Rodolphe Burger (born 1957), musician
• John Howe (born 1957), artist
• Mireille Delunsch (born 1962), soprano

[edit] Twin towns

Strasbourg is twinned with:

• Boston, United States (since 1960)
• Leicester, United Kingdom (since 1960)
• Stuttgart, Germany (then West-Germany) (since 1962)
• Dresden, Germany (ex-East-Germany) (since 1990)
• Ramat Gan, Israel (since 1991)
• Istanbul, Turkey
• Jacmel, Haiti (since 1996) (Coopération décentralisée)
• Novgorod, Russia (since 1997) (Coopération décentralisée)
• Fes, Morocco (Coopération décentralisée)

[edit] Others

• One of the longest chapters of Lawrence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy ("Slawkenbergius's tale") takes place in Strabourg.
• British art-punk band The Rakes had a minor hit in 2005 with, their song 'Strasbourg'. This song features witty lyrics with themes of espionage and vodka and includes a cleverly-placed count of 'eins, zwei, drei, vier!!', even though Strasbourg's spoken language is French. '70s Dutch progressive band Focus included a track called 'La Cathédrale de Strasbourg' on their 1974 album Hamburger Concerto. It included chimes from a cathedral-like bell.

[edit] See also

• Category:Strasbourg
• Strasbourg Cathedral
• University of Strasbourg
• Observatory of Strasbourg
• Musée d'art moderne et contemporain of Strasbourg - Modern and contemporary art museum
• Strasbourg Convention (Patent law)
• List of mayors of Strasbourg

[edit] References

• Alsace-Lorraine, Elsass Lothringen, une nation interdite - 1870 - 1940, by the Rev. Pierri Zind, Copernic, Paris, 1979, ISBN 2-85984-048-6
• Histoire de l`Alsace autrement, E G`schicht zuem üwerläwe, by Bernard Wittmann, Rhyn un Mosel, Morsbronn (Alsace), ISBN 2-9514359-0-8

[edit] External links

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• Strasbourg Official Site
• Eurodistrict official site
• Webcam Strasbourg Centre administratif
• The museums of Strasbourg
• Straßburg: pictures
• The European institutions in Strasbourg
• Education at Strasbourg - central network for universities and high schools
• National Theater of Strasbourg (Théâtre National de Strasbourg)
• The Opéra du Rhin
• The Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra
• The Ecole Nationale d'Administration
• The Strasbourg Art School
• The organs of Strasbourg
• Visiting Strasbourg (in English)
• Strasbourg City information (in English)
• Photos of Strasbourg - Terra Galleria
• Public transport in Strasbourg
• Pictures of Straßburg (German/English)
• English Speaking Community of Strasbourg

• Strasbourg travel guide from Wikitravel

World Heritage Sites in France

Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe | Amiens Cathedral | Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments | Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge | Belfries of Belgium and France (w/ Belgium) | Bourges Cathedral | Canal du Midi | Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve | Carcassonne | Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Remi and Palace of Tau, Reims | Chartres Cathedral | Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay | Le Havre | Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes | Lyon | Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay | Palace and Park of Fontainebleau | Palace and Park of Versailles | Paris, Banks of the Seine | Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance, Nancy | Pont du Gard | Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley | Provins | Pyrénées - Mont Perdu (w/ Spain) | Routes of Santiago de Compostela | Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the "Triumphal Arch" of Orange | Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans | Saint-Émilion | Strasbourg – Grande île | Vézelay, Church and Hill

Préfectures of régions of France

Strasbourg (Alsace) • Bordeaux (Aquitaine) • Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne) • Dijon (Bourgogne) • Rennes (Bretagne) • Orléans (Centre) • Châlons-en-Champagne (Champagne-Ardenne) • Ajaccio (Corsica) • Besançon (Franche-Comté) • Paris (Île-de-France) • Montpellier (Languedoc-Roussillon) • Limoges (Limousin) • Metz (Lorraine) • Toulouse (Midi-Pyrénées) • Lille (Nord-Pas de Calais) • Caen (Basse-Normandie) • Rouen (Haute-Normandie) • Nantes (Pays-de-la-Loire) • Amiens (Picardie) • Poitiers (Poitou-Charentes) • Marseille (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) • Lyon (Rhône-Alpes)
Overseas Régions:
Cayenne (French Guiana) • Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) • Fort-de-France (Martinique) • Saint-Denis (Réunion)

Préfectures of départements of France

Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) • Laon (Aisne) • Moulins (Allier • Digne-les-Bains (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) • Gap (Hautes-Alpes) • Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) • Privas (Ardeche) • Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes) • Foix (Ariège) • Troyes (Aube) • Carcassonne (Aude) • Rodez (Aveyron) • Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) • Caen (Calvados) • Aurillac (Cantal) • Angoulême (Charente) • La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) • Bourges (Cher) • Tulle (Corrèze) • Ajaccio (corse-du-Sud) • Bastia (Haute-Corse) • Dijon (Côte-d'Or) • Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d'Armor) • Guéret (Creuse) • Périgueux (Dordogne) • Besançon (Doubs) • Valence (Drôme) • Évreux (Eure) • Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) • Quimper (Finistère) • Nîmes (Gard) • Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) • Auch (Gers) • Bordeaux (Gironde) • Montpellier (Hérault) • Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) • Châteauroux (Indre) • Tours (Indre-et-Loire) • Grenoble (Isère) • Lons-le-Saunier (Jura) • Mont-de-Marsan (Landes) • Blois (Loir-et-Cher) • Saint-Étienne (Loire) • Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire) • Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) - Orléans (Loiret) • Cahors (Lot) • Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) • Mende (Lozère) • Angers (Maine-et-Loire) • Saint-Lô (Manche) • Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne) • Chaumont (Haute-Marne) - Laval (Mayenne) • Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) • Bar-le-Duc (Meuse) • Vannes (Morbihan) • Metz (Moselle) • Nevers (Nièvre) • Lille (Nord) • Beauvais (Oise) • Alençon (Orne) • Calais (Pas-de-Calais) • Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) • Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) • Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) • Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) • Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) • Colmar (Haut-Rhin) • Lyon (Rhône) • Vesoul (Haute-Saône) • Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire) • Le Mans (Sarthe) • Chambéry (Savoie) • Annecy (Haute-Savoie) • Paris (Paris) • Rouen (Seine-Maritime) • Melun (Seine-et-Marne) • Versailles (Yvelines) • Niort (Deux-Sèvres) • Amiens (Somme) • Albi (Tarn) • Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) • Toulon (Var) • Avignon (Vaucluse) • La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée) • Poitiers (Vienne) • Limoges (Haute-Vienne) • Épinal (Vosges) • Auxerre (Yonne) • Belfort (Territoire de Belfort) - Évry (Essonne) - Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) • Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) • Créteil (Val-de-Marne) • Cergy (Val-d'Oise)

Overseas départements:
Cayenne (French Guiana) • Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) • Fort-de-France (Martinique) • Saint-Denis (Réunion)