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  1. Capital of Haut-Rhin departement, France,
  2. between the river Rhine and the Vosges
  3. mountains; population (1983) 82,500. It is
  4. the centre of a wine-growing and
  5. market-gardening area. Industries include
  6. engineering, food processing, and textiles.
  7. The church of St Martin is 13th-14th century,
  8. and the former Dominican monastery, now the
  9. Unterlinden Museum, contains a Grunewald
  10. altarpiece.
  11.