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Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines ((ドイツ語:Markirch)) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in northeastern France. ==Geography== Sainte Marie-aux-Mines is located in the massif of the Vosges Mountains, where it occupies the V-shaped valley of the . Nearby Lorraine is accessible by road over the (772 m) or the Tunnel Maurice-Lemaire (reopened, following a major upgrade, in October 2008). The (903 m) leads to the Col du Bonhomme and to the Route des Crêtes (''Road of the Ridges''). The Col du Haut de Ribeauvillé (742 m, 2,412 feet) gives direct access to Ribeauvillé, situated to the southeast. Sélestat in the Bas Rhin, a much more substantial commercial and political focus for the region, is just to the east, along the Liepvrette valley. Sainte Marie-aux-Mines is surrounded on both sides of the valley by high mountains. The Lièpvrette River, which was formerly called ''Landbach'', separates the city into two parts, and, formerly, into two different parishes. Some 23 km to the west lies Sélestat at the crossroads of Highway 59 and the D 48, which crosses the ''Col des Bagenelles''. Early Latin documents called the town ''Fanum S. Mariae'' or ''S. Maria ad Fodinas''. It was called in German ''Markirch'' or ''Mariakirch''. After Alsace was retaken from the Germans in year II of the Republic, it was called ''Val-aux-Mines''. The valley of Sainte Marie-aux-Mines is sometimes called . It contains five municipalities: Aubure, Lièpvre, Rombach-le-Franc, and Sainte Croix-aux-Mines. 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. The valley of Sainte Marie-aux-Mines was a part of the district of Colmar, but in 1871 it became part of the district of Ribeauvillé. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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