Mühlhausen

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Mühlhausen
Coat of arms	Location
Image:Wappen Muehlhausen-Thueringen.png	Image:Karte Deutschland.png Image:Red pog2.svg
Administration
Country	Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany
State	Thuringia
District	Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis
Lord Mayor	Hans-Dieter Dörbaum (Ind.)
Basic statistics
Area	86.34 km² (33.3 sq mi)
Elevation	216 m  (709 ft)
Population	36,874  (31/12/2006)
- Density	427 /km² (1,106 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	UH
Postal code	99974
Area code	03601
Website	www.muehlhausen.de
Location of the town of Mühlhausen within Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis district
Image:Mühlhausen-Thüringen in UH.png Coordinates: 51°13′″N 10°27′″E / Expression error: Unexpected / operator, Expression error: Unexpected / operator

Mühlhausen (official Mühlhausen/Thüringen) is a city in the federal state Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the Unstrut-Hainich district, and lies along the river Unstrut. Mühlhausen had c. 37,000 inhabitants in 2006.

Contents 1 History 2 Main sights 3 Districts 4 Notable people 5 Twin towns 6 External links

[edit] History

Mühlhausen in Thuringia is first mentioned in 967 as an Ottonian Pfalz village. It had its period of glory during the 13th through the 15th century.

The radical reformer Thomas Müntzer preached in St. Marien church in 1525.

Johann Sebastian Bach was an organist in the Divi Blasii church between 1708 and 1709. After the Napoleonic Wars, the city was part of the Prussian Province of Saxony.

From 1944 into March 1945 the Buchenwald administration opened a women's subcamp directly outside Mühlhausen. The women in the small camp worked under brutal conditions for little food. The women were deported in April 1945 to Bergen Belsen.

[edit] Main sights

• Historic city wall
• City archives
• 11 churches
• National Park Hainich

[edit] Districts

The city of Mühlhausen consists of five districts:

• Mühlhausen (33,660 inhabitants)
• Felchta (990 inhabitants)
• Görmar (1,109 inhabitants)
• Saalfeld (211 inhabitants)
• Windeberg (260 inhabitants)

[edit] Notable people

• Günter Fromm (1926-1994), author
• Adolph Methfessel (1807-1878), composer
• Ernst Methfessel (1811-1886), composer
• John (Johann) August Roebling (1806-1869), civil engineer
• Friedrich August Stüler, architect

[edit] Twin towns

• Image:Flag of Germany.svg Eschwege, Germany
• Image:Flag of Russia.svg Kronstadt, Russia
• Image:Flag of Germany.svg Münster, Germany
• Image:Flag of France.svg Tourcoing, France

[edit] External links

• Official webite
• district site
• National Park Hainich
• Thuringia Tourism
• Wikitravel on Mühlhausen

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v • d • e Image:Banner of the Holy Roman Emperor (after 1400).svg Holy Roman Empire – Lower Saxon Circle (1500–1806)
Ecclesiastical princes	Bremen* | Halberstadt* | Hildesheim | Lübeck | Magdeburg* | Ratzeburg (until 1701) | Schwerin*	Image:Lower Saxon Circle-2005-10-15-en.png
Secular princes	Bremen† | Brunswick: Blankenburg (until 1731), Calenberg‡, Celle, Grubenhagen‡, Lüneburg‡, Wolfenbüttel | Holstein: Glückstadt, Gottorp | Mecklenburg: Güstrow (until 1695), Schwerin, Strelitz | Rantzau (until 1734) | Regenstein | Saxe-Lauenburg‡
Imperial cities	Bremen | Goslar | Hamburg | Lübeck | Mühlhausen | Nordhausen
* until 1648     † from 1648     ‡ until 1705

v • d • e Towns and municipalities in Unstrut-Hainich

Altengottern | Anrode | Bad Langensalza | Bad Tennstedt | Ballhausen | Blankenburg | Bothenheilingen | Bruchstedt | Dünwald | Flarchheim | Großengottern | Großvargula | Haussömmern | Herbsleben | Heroldishausen | Heyerode | Hildebrandshausen | Hornsömmern | Issersheilingen | Kammerforst | Katharinenberg | Kirchheilingen | Kleinwelsbach | Klettstedt | Körner | Kutzleben | Langula | Lengenfeld unterm Stein | Marolterode | Menteroda | Mittelsömmern | Mühlhausen | Mülverstedt | Neunheilingen | Niederdorla | Oberdorla | Obermehler | Oppershausen | Rodeberg | Schlotheim | Schönstedt | Sundhausen | Tottleben | Unstruttal | Urleben | Weberstedt | Weinbergen

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