Colmar

Colmar was a free imperial city on the Lauch in Upper Alsace. Made an imperial city by Frederick II in 1226, it was governed by a patrician council in 1337.

Colmar joined the Décapole in 1354 and adopted the Reformation in 1575. Swedish troops occupied it in 1632 during the Thirty Years' War; Louis XIV's forces took it in 1673. The Treaties of Nijmegen ceded Colmar and the other Décapole cities to France in 1679.