Colmar - Dominican Church

In Colmar, in Rue des Serruriers is the Dominican Church (13th-15th C), a fine example of the Early Gothic architecture of the Rhineland. The interior, its roof supported on extraordinarily slender pillars, contains fine stained glass (14th-15th C) and altars from Marbach Abbey, near Eguisheim. In the choir is the famous "Virgin of the Rose Garden", a masterpiece by Martin Schongauer (1473). On the north side of the church is the former Dominican monastery, with a 14th C cloister (serenade concerts). It now houses the Municipal Library (manuscripts of eighth-15th C, incunabula). Northeast of the Dominican monastery, in Rue des Clefs (the main shopping street of the old town), is the 18th C Town Hall.