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Mühlhausen (official German long version Mühlhausen/Thüringen) is a city of 33,000 inhabitants in Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the Unstrut-Hainich district in the north-west of Thuringia, situated only north of Germany's accurate geographical centre (in the neighbouring municipality of Niederdorla) as well as north-west of Erfurt, east of Kassel and south-east of Göttingen.
Mühlhausen was first mentioned in 967 and became one of the most important cities in central Germany during the later Middle Ages. In the mid-13th century, it became a Freie Reichsstadt, an independent and republican self-ruled member of the Holy Roman Empire, controlling an area of approximately and 19 regional villages. Due to its long-distance trade, Mühlhausen was prosperous and influential with a population of 10,000 around 1500. Because it was spared from later destruction, Mühlhausen today has a great variety of historical buildings with one of the largest medieval city centres remaining in Germany, covering a surface of more than 50 hectares within the inner city wall and approximately 200 hectares overall. There are eleven Gothic churches, several patricians’ houses and a nearly completely preserved fortification.
Johann Sebastian Bach worked as the city's organist in 1707/08. The theologian Thomas Müntzer, a leading person in the German Peasants' War, gave sermons here and was executed in front of the city. John A. Roebling, the constructor of the Brooklyn Bridge and Friedrich August Stüler, an influential architect in mid-19th-century Prussia, were born in Mühlhausen.
Mühlhausen is located within the Thuringian Basin, a flat and fertile area, on the Unstrut river on the eastern edge of the Hainich hills.
Mühlhausen is a city in Thuringia, Germany.
Mühlhausen, German for "mill houses", may also refer to:
- German naval ship Mühlhausen, in service with the German Navy
- other places in Germany:
- Mühlhausen (Affing), village in the municipality Affing near Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
- Mühlhausen (Kraichgau), municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Mühlhausen am Neckar, a town now part of the Stuttgart conglomerate in Baden-Württemberg
- Mühlhausen bei Schwenningen, community of Villingen-Schwenningen in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Mühlhausen, Middle Franconia, in the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt, Bavaria
- Mühlhausen, Upper Palatinate, in the district of Neumarkt, Bavaria
- places outside Germany:
- Mühlhausen an der Moldau, the former German name of Nelahozeves, Czech Republic
- Mühlhausen, the former German name of Milevsko, Czech Republic
- Mühlhausen in Ostpreußen, the former German name of Młynary, Poland
- Mühlhausen (Kreis Preußisch Eylau), today Gvardeyskoye, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
- Mülhausen, the German name for Mulhouse, France
- Mulhausen, Bas-Rhin, village in France
Mühlhausen is a town in the district of Rhein-Neckar in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.