The tanners’ ditch

The tanners’ ditch

History Addresses The Tanners’ Ditch April 10th 2019, by Leo Strasbourg has always been a city of canals. Built in the origin between two arms of the Ill river, on an island called nowadays the Great Island, it had many more canals. The successive phases of...
Kléber Square (part 4/4)

Kléber Square (part 4/4)

History Addresses Kléber square (part 4/4) March 29th 2019, by Matthias This is the continuation and conclusion of our series dedicated to the main square (see the start of the series). By the end of that last note, we still won’t be done with it entirely. Yet, if I...
Kléber square (part 3/4)

Kléber square (part 3/4)

History Addresses Kléber square (part 3/4) March 23rd 2019, by Matthias This is the third part (see first article) in our series dedicated to the Kléber square, we find here a troubled century and the birth of an urban area. But we will also see that some issues are...
Kléber Square (part 2/4)

Kléber Square (part 2/4)

History Addresses Kléber square (part 2/4) February 20th 2019, by Matthias In the previous article (Kléber Square (part 1/4)), we have discussed the quite recent transformations of Strasbourg’s main square, then we started digging there, just a few meters deep. I now...
Kléber square (part 1/4)

Kléber square (part 1/4)

History Addresses Kléber square (part 1/4) January 25th 2019, by Matthias This is today the main square in Strasbourg, possibly you walk here every day and yet… Do you have the faintest idea where you set foot? On what? Or, should I say, on whom? But let us go back in...