Munster is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is located in the valley of the river Fecht, in the Vosges mountains about 15 kilometres west of Colmar on the
Protestant Church
Panorama of the valley.
Panorama of Munster
View to a street with reformed church and catholic church in the background
Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer was a German polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. As a Lutheran minister, Schweitzer ch
Munster, Haut-Rhin
…The town's inhabitants are known in French as munstériens. Albert Schweitzer grew up in the nearby village of Gunsbach in the late 19th century, when the region was known as Elsaß-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine) and was part of the…
Schweitzer in 1955
Albert Schweitzer's birthplace in Kaysersberg, now in Alsace in France
Schweitzer in 1912. Oil on canvas painting by Émile Schneider, Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
The Choir Organ at St Thomas' Church, Strasbourg, designed in 1905 on principles defined by Schweitzer