Strasbourgשטרסבורג

France

Strasbourg is the principal city of Alsace in northeastern France, on the Rhine. A free imperial city from the 13th century, it became French in 1681, was German again from 1871 to 1918, and is today a seat of the European Parliament and the Council of Europe. In the 14th century it was a centre of German mysticism, where the Dominicans Meister Eckhart and Johannes Tauler preached, and in the 16th a centre of the Protestant Reformation under Martin Bucer, with John Calvin among its figures; its university grew from a gymnasium founded in 1538. The medieval Jewish community was destroyed in the massacre of 1349; Jewish life later revived, and modern Strasbourg is an important centre of French Jewry.

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