Cour d'Appel de Colmar (Colmar Court of Appeal), Colmar

The Court of Appeal of Colmar (Cour d'Appel de Colmar) located in Colmar hears cases coming from the courts of its district which extends over the departments of Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin.

Louis XIV created in Colmar the Sovereign Council of Alsace in September 1657 following the union of Alsace with France by the Treaties of Westphalia of 1648, which was dissolved during the French Revolution in 1790. In 1800, under the Consulate regime, a new higher court for Alsace was created in Colmar under the name of court of appeal, which took the name of court of appeal in 1804.

The current building, built from May 1902 to September 1906 on the site of an experimental vineyard by the architects Richard Kuder (de) and Joseph Müller is intended for the Oberlandesgericht (German court of justice), it becomes court of call in February 1919.

It is still today the highest court in Alsace (the city having spent 400,000 marks to avoid its transfer to Strasbourg).

The facades, the roofs and the entrance hall with the grand staircase have been listed as historic monuments since November 15, 19854.