Covered Market
On Gingerguide's self-guided Colmar audio tour, Covered Market is a stop worth about ~30 min. Stand in front of it, press play for a short narrated story, and put any follow-up question to the built-in AI guide.
- Type market
- Suggested visit ~30 min
- Colmar Colmar guide
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About Covered Market
A bright 1865 market hall of pink sandstone, brick and cast-iron beside the Lauch, now a permanent terroir market where about twenty traders sell cheese, wine and regional Alsace produce.
The Marché Couvert, Colmar's covered market, stands at 13 rue des Écoles on the bank of the Lauch, near the old customs house. Inaugurated in 1865 to a design by the architect Louis-Michel Boltz, who also built the municipal theatre, it is a fine example of nineteenth-century industrial architecture: pink sandstone and red-and-white brick beneath a glass roof carried on cast-iron posts. Its riverside position once allowed market gardeners to unload produce directly from boats on the Lauch.
A niche at the southwest corner holds a fountain figure of a young winegrower, the Petit Vigneron, made by Auguste Bartholdi and installed in 1869; the original was moved to the Bartholdi Museum in 1986 and replaced by a copy. After serving for years as a car park, the hall was restored and became a permanent market again on 14 September 2010, home today to around twenty traders selling regional produce.
Did you know? Before its restoration, the elegant 1865 hall spent years serving as a car park; it only reopened as a permanent food market, selling regional Alsace produce, on 14 September 2010.
How much time do you need at Covered Market?
Around ~30 min works well for Covered Market — time to look properly and listen to its story on the spot. Linger if you like; nothing on a self-guided walk is on a clock.
Should you stop at Covered Market?
Yes — Covered Market made the cut as one of 13 places the Gingerguide team researched and narrated across Colmar. The story tells you why it is worth the stop, and the AI guide fills in anything you still wonder.
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