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Commune of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Alsace |
| Department | Haut-Rhin |
| Arrondissement | Ribeauvillé |
| Canton | Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines (chief town) |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes du Val d'Argent |
| Mayor | Claude Abel (2001-2008) |
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| Elevation | 326 m–1,210 m (avg. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Alsace (Alsace alzas Alsatian and Elsass pre-1996 German: Elsaß; Alsatia is one of the 26 Regions of France, located on the eastern In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Haut-Rhin is a ''département'' of France named after the Rhine river The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Ribeauvillé is an arrondissement of France located in the Haut-Rhin département, in the Alsace The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. 375 m) |
| Land area¹ | 45. 23 km² |
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5,816 |
| - Density | 128/km² (1999) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 68298/ 68160 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0. As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume The INSEE code is a numerical indexing code used by the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE to identify various entities including communes Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E | |
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Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines (German: Markirch) is a commune of the Haut-Rhin département, in France. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. Haut-Rhin is a ''département'' of France named after the Rhine river In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.
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Geography
Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines leans in the massif of Vosges and occupies a beautiful valley in V where pours rising Liepvrette. The Vosges (voːʒ or Vosges Mountains are a Mountain range in eastern France, stretching along the west side of the Rhine valley One can access nearby Lorraine by road using the Col de Sainte Marie (772 m) or the Tunnel Maurice-Lemaire (scheduled to reopen, following a major upgrade, in Summer 2008): the Bagenelles Pass (Col des Bagenelles) (903 m) leads to the Col du Bonhomme and to the Road of the Ridges (Route des Crêtes). The Tunnel Maurice-Lemaire, commonly known as the ‘Tunnel de Sainte-Marie’ is a road tunnel adapted to permit road traffic to drive between Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines and
The col du Haut de Ribeauvillé (742 m, 2,412 feet) gives a direct access to the administrative center of district, situated in 20 km (12 miles), but the city of Sélestat in the Bas Rhin is only 26 km (16 miles) by the valley and represents a superior center of attention. Sélestat (Sélestat selɛsta Alsatian: Schlettstadt, pronounced; Schlettstadt is a Bas-Rhin is a ''département'' of France. The name means "Lower Rhine "
Saint Marie-aux-Mines is lined from both directions with high mountains which form the chain of Vosges. Vosges (voːʒ is a French department, named after the Vosges mountain range. The river, Lièpvrette that the former inhabitants named Landbach, that is the provincial brook, separated formerly the city in two parts and in two different parishes, on which the one depended of the diocese of Strasbourg under the arch-presbytery Sélestat's rural chapter. The Bishopric was a client state of the Holy Roman Empire from the 13th century until 1803 Sélestat (Sélestat selɛsta Alsatian: Schlettstadt, pronounced; Schlettstadt is a
This central place of the High Valley Canton of the of Lièpvre, in 23 km on the West Sélestat is situated in the crossroads of the Main road 59 which crosses by Col of Sainte Marie-aux-Mines's (772 m, 2,509 feet) and of it D 48 which crosses by in the col of Bagenelles (903 m, 2,935 feet). Lièpvre (Leberau is a town and commune of the Haut-Rhin département, in Alsace, France. Sélestat (Sélestat selɛsta Alsatian: Schlettstadt, pronounced; Schlettstadt is a
Sainte Marie-aux-Mines, called in German Markirch or Mariakirch and in the year II of the Republic free Mountain then Val-aux-Mines is in 384 meters (1,248 feet) above sea level. The Latin documents named it Fanum S. Mariae, S. Maria ad Fodinas.
The valley of Saint Marie-aux-Mines called today Valley of Val d’Argent includes five municipalities: Aubure, Lièpvre, Rombach-le-Franc, and Sainte Croix-aux-Mines. Aubure is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in northeastern France. Lièpvre (Leberau is a town and commune of the Haut-Rhin département, in Alsace, France. Rombach-le-Franc is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département, in Alsace, northeastern France. Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département, in Alsace, northeastern France. Established in 1790, it was subdivided temporarily, between 1795 and 1802, into two: the one restricted to the city of Sainte Marie–aux-Mines, and the other one including the four other municipalities with its center at Sainte Croix-aux-Mines. Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines is a commune in the Haut-Rhin département, in Alsace, northeastern France.
The valley of Sainte Marie–aux-Mines was a part of the District of Colmar, to pass in 1871 into that of Ribeauvillé. Colmar (Colmar kɔlmaʁ Alsatian: Colmer pronounced; Colmar between 1871-1918 and 1940-1945 also Kolmar) is a town and commune Not to be confused with Ribeauville, in the Aisne department Ribeauvillé ( Alsatian: Rappschwihr; Rappoltsweiler is
Distances and localities
Altenberg, Adelspach, Bourgonde, Brifosse, the coast of Échery, Échery, Faunoux, Fenarupt, Fertrupt (formerly called Fordelbach), haute Broque, Haycot, Hergauchamps, the Petite Lièpvre ( Kleinleberau), Mongoutte, the Petit Haut, Rauenthal, Saint Philippe, Saint Pierre sur l’Hâte, Surlattes ( Zillhardt)
Saint Marie-aux-Mines's coats of arms
In Armorial of the Majority of Alsace, Sainte Marie-aux-Mines's blazon is described in the following way : of Azure in one Our Lady of silver putting its feet on a golden mountain. Alsace (Alsace alzas Alsatian and Elsass pre-1996 German: Elsaß; Alsatia is one of the 26 Regions of France, located on the eastern On intoxicates him notepapers official of the city hall we see weapons quite other : they are formed with the weapons of Lorraine, Ribeaupierre's weapons and heraldic sign of the minors and can blazoner so : party of money in three ecus of mouths which is of Ribeaupierre, and gold in the band of mouths charged with three alérions of silvers which is from Lorraine, with there abyss, an ecu of sand in two hammers of minors of silver put in long necklace. Lorraine (Lorraine Lothringen is a historical area in present-day northeast France. Lorraine (Lorraine Lothringen is a historical area in present-day northeast France. These weapons very well consisted in the heraldic point of view and reproduced in color on the notepaper of the city hall of front war, evoke perfectly the geographic and political situation of the city such as it was until the Revolution, as well as the industry which made its reputation. A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, "a turnaround" is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively Saint Marie-aux-Mines's coats of arms varied. Those that attributed Louis XIV's general armorial bearings to the Alsatian part were talking : " Of azure in one Our Lady of silver putting feet on a golden mountain ". Early years Birth and ancestry Louis XIV was born in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on September 5 1638 and bore the Heir apparent The side of Lorraine which belonged to the Lords de Ribeaupierre and the side of Lorraine of the city having been reunited under the Revolution, Saint Marie-aux-Mines adopted in the XIXth century a particular ecu left for silver in the three badges of mouths ( Ribeaupierre) and azure in the cross of Lorraine of silver. Lorraine (Lorraine Lothringen is a historical area in present-day northeast France. Lorraine (Lorraine Lothringen is a historical area in present-day northeast France. A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, "a turnaround" is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively The current coats of arms granted on July 28, 1892 call back at the same moment this double origin and the mines which Sainte Marie-aux-Mines had to formerly her celebrity. Events 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of Treason. Year 1892 ( MDCCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year The city of Holy Marie is a holder of the Croix de guerre 1914-1918 with palm (quotation in the order of the Army of ]]November 2]], [[1921])) and of the Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with star of vermeil (quotation in the order of the armed force). The Croix de Guerre (sometimes lowercase in French Croix de guerre, meaning "Cross of War" is a military decoration of both France and Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar
History
Sainte Marie-aux-Mines owes her celebrity to her mines. All the evolution is so conditioned in the exploitation of mines. These mines would have been discovered with Gallo-Romains which had already begun the exploitation of mines at the beginning of 2nd or 3rd century after Jesus Christ. This article covers the culture of Romanized areas of Gaul. For the political history of the brief "Gallic Empire" of the 3rd century see Gallic Empire Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC / BCE —26–36 AD / CE) Christ is the English term for the Greek ( Khristós) meaning "the anointed " This hypothesis had been suggested, but was very fast abandoned for lack of serious documents. Robert Forrer put handed her in value in 1927 by basing itself on the presence of antimony in the currencies of and the valley of Lièpvre of which depended more or less, antimony, which according to him, could come only of Sainte Marie-aux-Mines's region, which would have so known mines from this time. Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Lièpvre (Leberau is a town and commune of the Haut-Rhin département, in Alsace, France. It is then the black hole until the Xth century when according to the monk of the abbey of whom lived in 13th century, a named monk Blidulphe based Echéry's convent, situated right by the current Sainte Marie-aux-Mines. The monks noticed soon that the valley abounded in mine fertility. The monks of Echéry are soon threatened in their possessions and their rights by the family of Echery which builds in the XIIIth century, the castle of Hoh-Eckerich. MONK is a Monte Carlo software package for simulating nuclear processes particularly for the purpose of determining the neutron multiplication factor or k-effective This family eventually monopolized the mines) which the monks exploited.
The first mention of the city dates from the time of Thierry II, duke of Lorraine, who returned in 1078 to Lièpvre's convent Sainte Marie-aux-Mines's tithes and that of the Saint Blaise's nearby village. Lièpvre (Leberau is a town and commune of the Haut-Rhin département, in Alsace, France. Saint Blaise ( Greek: Άγιος Βλάσιος Agios Vlasios; Armenian: Սուրբ Բարսեղ was a physician and Bishop These possessions made left for Lièpvre's convent which had been deprived of him in 1052 by Gérard d'Alsace, his father. Lièpvre (Leberau is a town and commune of the Haut-Rhin département, in Alsace, France. Gérard d'Alsace descended from the family whomreigned over Alsace in the VIIth century, the name of which is connected with that of Etichon which was also the father of Sainte Odile. Alsace (Alsace alzas Alsatian and Elsass pre-1996 German: Elsaß; Alsatia is one of the 26 Regions of France, located on the eastern Adalrich (died after 683 also known as Eticho, was the Duke of Alsace, the founder of the family of the Etichonids, and an important and influential figure Saint Odile (or Odilia and or Ottilia) is the name of two saints venerated in the Roman Catholic Church, both patronesses of good eyesight Saint Odilia The predecessor of Gérard d' Alsace, Adalbert, was the son of another Gérard who had married Gisèle, niece of the emperor. Alsace (Alsace alzas Alsatian and Elsass pre-1996 German: Elsaß; Alsatia is one of the 26 Regions of France, located on the eastern The new hereditary duke of Lorraine, Gérard d'Alsace, belonged so to an illustrious lineage solidly provided in Alsace, that is in the southwest of the realm of Germania. Alsace (Alsace alzas Alsatian and Elsass pre-1996 German: Elsaß; Alsatia is one of the 26 Regions of France, located on the eastern Germania was the Latin Exonym for Links between the Lorraine, realm of Germania and Holy Empire became close. Lorraine (Lorraine Lothringen is a historical area in present-day northeast France. It was supported by the emperor Henry III because Etichonides had always served loyally Empire and had supplied him the devoted civil servants. Henry III ( 29 October 1017 &ndash 5 October 1056) called the Black or the Pious, was a member of the Salian Dynasty An empire (from the Latin " Imperium " denoting military Command within the ancient Roman government) is a State that It is very likely that Gérard d' Alsace had knowledge of the rich mines of the Valley of Lièpvre, because according to Schoepflin it is question from 963 of the time of Gérard, bishop of Toul (963-994) of the silvermines of the Valley of Lièpvre fame of which exceeded Lorraine. Saint Gerard of Toul, also Saint Gerald of Toul ( French: Geraud; b The Diocese of Toul was a Roman Catholic Diocese seated at Toul in present-day France Events By Place Asia Turkish Khan Sebük Tigin establishes his empire in modern day Afghanistan. Events By Place Europe Sweyn Forkbeard marries Sigrid the Haughty Lièpvre (Leberau is a town and commune of the Haut-Rhin département, in Alsace, France. Lorraine (Lorraine Lothringen is a historical area in present-day northeast France. In this time it is already question of the tithe which have to pay the monks of the Valley of Lièpvre. The bishop Gérard bishop of Toul named in 963 will be canonized in 1051 by whom was his 5th successor on the seat of Toul's bishop's palace under the name of Léon de Dabo. A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight Toul is a historic fortified town of France, a Sous-préfecture of the Events By Place Asia Turkish Khan Sebük Tigin establishes his empire in modern day Afghanistan. In the collection Evangelienbuch, poem in popular language finished towards 865 and dedicated to Louis the German, Wissembourg's Otfrid praises the country of Franks, for which he praises, in four towards, the mineralogical wealth of the region vosgienne. Events By Place Europe Ethelred succeeds as king of Wessex (or 866) Louis (also Ludwig or Lewis) the German (also known as Louis II or Louis the Bavarian) (806 &ndash August 28, 876 Wissembourg (in Wissembourg visɑ̃buʁ in South Franconian: Weisseburch, pronounced; in Weißenburg is a small town and commune situated on the Otfrid of Weissenburg (German Otfrid von Weißenburg) (c 800 - after 870 was a monk at Weissenburg (modern-day Wissembourg in Alsace) and the author The Franks or Frankish people (Franci or gens Francorum) were West Germanic tribes first identified in the 3rd century as an Ethnic group Monk of Wissembourg, convent is which possesses properties to the South of the former duchy, not far from Sélestat, and appears to have shown for this region a very deep interest. Wissembourg (in Wissembourg visɑ̃buʁ in South Franconian: Weisseburch, pronounced; in Weißenburg is a small town and commune situated on the Sélestat (Sélestat selɛsta Alsatian: Schlettstadt, pronounced; Schlettstadt is a (1048-1070), duke of Lorraine from 1048 and nephew of (1047-1048) appears he so disturbed with these mines which are on the lands of his ancestors, Etichonides. In 1055, this duke frees Saint-Dié's abbey of the custody of the bishops of Toul and proclaims himself dedicated with this abbey. Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, commonly referred to as Saint-Dié, is a commune of northeastern France. An abbey (from Latin abbatia derived from Syriac abba "father" is a Christian Monastery or Toul is a historic fortified town of France, a Sous-préfecture of the It charges dearly this protection. So the chapter loses gradually its rights to preserve only a moral and spiritual authority. Sainte Marie-aux-Mines, levy in Latin Sancte Maria ad Fodinas, and in German Markirch, owes her name and her origin to exploitation of mines and to the church of Sainte Marie Madeleine who was the parish of the part of Lorraine and who was built in 1757. Saint Mary Magdalen or Mary Magdalene is described both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted Lorraine (Lorraine Lothringen is a historical area in present-day northeast France. The big altar was under the invocation of this saint and the two others collateral under the invocation of the Virgin Mary and other one of Holy Sébastien. The city of Saint Marie-aux-Mines appears for the first time in 1317.
U. S. soldier Eddie Slovik was executed by firing squad for desertion near the town on January 31, 1945. Edward Donald Slovik ( February 18, 1920 &ndash January 31, 1945) was a private in the United States Army during World War Execution by firing squad is a method of Capital punishment, particularly common in times of war In Military terminology desertion is the Abandonment of a " Duty " or post without permission from one's Government or superior Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar
Famous residents
- Laure Diebold, (1915-1965), Compagnon de la Libération
Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Mineral Show
The Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Mineral Show, also known as Euro Mineral, is an international fair on nature-related arts and mining products that takes place in this alsacian village, whose economy was formerly focused on regional mining and mineral deposits. Laure Diebold, sometimes written Laure Diebolt ( January 10 1915 - October 17 1965) was a high-profile female member of
The Mineral Show dates back, like the Mineralientage (Munich, Germany), in the early 1960, when Francois Lehmann organized a small mineral exhibition. Mineralientage München &ndash The Munich Mineral Show In the Bavarian city of Munich (München in German a few weeks after the world famous Oktoberfest, In a couple of years the fair becomes a tourist attraction in the area and actually many collectors from Italy, France and Germany are going there. The actual appearance of the Mineral Show started in 1966 when it consolidated the first weekend of July as a fair dates. In 1981 the team led by Michel Schwab gives a professional point of view to the fair. Since 1992, the fair takes place the last week of June. The fair hosts today more than 900 exhibitors from 60 countries.
Over the course of a limited town area, filling the small Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines old town streets, are distributed hundreds of stands exhibiting their minerals, fossils, gems and elaborated stones. Some village buildings, like the Theatre or the School, among others, are also filled with exhibitors. During the four-day fair (the first two days are for professionals only) also carried out parallel events such as conferences, workshops and visits to mines from this valley, known as Val d'Argent (Silver Valley).
Currently the site of the exhibition is divided into the Euro Mineral and Euro Gem sections, with specialized dealers. However messy the layout of the streets brings a style in which you could find anywhere the piece you were looking for.
External links
- Val d'Argent (http://www.valdargent.com)
- OSJC : Get the latest news and activities from Ste Marie-aux-Mines organizations (http://www.osjcstemarie.com)
- The official website of the Sainte-Marie-Aux-Mines Mineral Show
- Information about Euro Mineral editions
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