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2 Population without double counting residents of towns Eg students and military personnel are counted only once.
With a population of 112063 1 in 2013 and 284.739 inhabitants in the metropolitan area 2 in 2012, it is the largest town in the department of Haut-Rhin, and the second in the Alsace region after Strasbourg Mulhouse is the main town in the 33 taken the Urban Community of Mulhouse Alsace Agglomeration M2A 267,759 population 3.
Mulhouse is famous for its museums, particularly the National Automobile Museum also known as the National Automobile Museum of the French Museum and also called City Railway train, respectively the largest automobile and railway museums worldwide industrial town nicknamed Manchester french, Mulhouse 4 is also the headquarters of the Upper Alsace University where the secretariat of the European physical Society is located.
Mulhouse is the main town of a district of the department of Haut-Rhin, which is a sub-prefecture.
The legends mention the origin of the city in 58 BC, but the first written Mulhouse date from the twelfth century, it was part of the South Sundgau the Alsace county in the Holy Roman Empire from 1354 in 1515 was part of the Mulhouse Décapole an association of ten free imperial cities in Alsace city joined the Swiss Confederation as a partner in 1515 and has therefore not been annexed by France in the peace of Westphalia in 1648 like the rest of Sundgau in an enclave Alsace, it was a free and independent republic Calvinist known Stadtrepublik Mülhausen associated with the Swiss Confederation until after a vote by its citizens January 4, 1798, it became part of France in the Treaty Mulhouse signed January 28, 1798, during the directory period of the French Revolution.
From the mid-eighteenth century, manufacturing pioneer family cotton fabric Koechlin; Mulhouse became one of the largest textile centers in France in the nineteenth century André Koechlin 1789 1875 builds machines and started making railway equipment in 1842 The company in 1839 already employed 1,800 people He was one the six major manufacturers of French locomotives until the merger with Elsässische Maschinenbau -Gesellschaft Grafenstaden in 1872, when the company became Alsatian company of Mechanical Constructions 5.
After the victory of Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871 Mulhouse was annexed to the German Empire in the territory of Alsace-Lorraine 1871 1918 The town was briefly occupied by French troops on August 8 1914, at the beginning of the First World War but were forced to withdraw two days later in the battle of Mulhouse Alsace citizens celebrating imprudently the appearance of the French army, were left to deal with German reprisals, several citizens sentenced to death after the First World war ended in 1918, french troops entered Germany ceded Alsace until returned to french control at the end of the war, in May 1945, the region France under the Treaty of Versailles after the battle of France in 1940, it was occupied by German forces.
Has stimulated the development of the city first by the expansion of the textile industry and tanning, followed by the chemical and engineering of the mid 18th century Mulhouse has long called the French Manchester Accordingly, the city has lasting ties with Louisiana which it imported cotton, and also with the Levant history of the city also explains why its center is relatively small.
Two rivers run through Mulhouse, the Doller and the Ill two tributaries of the Rhine Mulhouse is located about 100 kilometers 62 miles from Strasbourg and Zurich; It is 350 km 217 mi away from Milan and about 340 km 211 mi Frankfurt It is quite close to Basel in Switzerland and Freiburg in Germany to share EuroAirport International Airport with both cities 6.
Medieval Mulhouse consists essentially of a low and a high city.
The lower town was once the downtown area merchants and craftsmen Organized around the Place de la Reunion commemorating his meeting with France Today, this area is pedestrianized.
The upper town developed from the eighteenth century Previously, several monastic orders were in place there, including the Franciscan Poor Clares Augustines and the Knights of Malta.
The new district New District is the best example of urban planning in Mulhouse, and was developed from 1826 after the city walls were demolished as they were in many cities in France, it focuses around the Republic square the street network and its triangular shape are a good demonstration of the will of the city to a layout planned planning was undertaken by architects G Stolz and Félix Fries This area of downtown has was occupied by wealthy families and owners of local industries, which tend to be liberal and republican in their opinions.
The Rebberg district consists of large houses inspired cotton farmers colonnades homes in Louisiana Originally, it was the vineyard of the city means the word Rebe vine in German houses were built as terraces in the English style, an income near the town relationship with Manchester where industrialists son were often sent to study.
City Hall of the sixteenth century, the town hall was built in 1553 in the Rhenish Renaissance Montaigne described it as a magnificent gilded palace of a magnificent golden palace in 1580. He is known for his trompe the Eye, and his pictures of allegories representing the vices and virtues.
Workers quarter mid 19th century, inspired workers districts in many other industrial cities 10.
Place de la Bourse and the construction of the Industrial Society of Mulhouse in the New District of 19th century.
National Automobile Museum with the Schlumpf collection.
Train City successor to French Railway Museum French National Railway Museum.
The Museum of Printed Fabrics Museum of printing on fabrics.
The Zoological and Botanical Mulhouse Botanical Garden and the zoo.
Holy Temple Calvinist Steffen 1859 1869, by Jean-Baptiste Schacre.
German cars eschbach_1, German Town neighborhood, French Museum Way.