Mulhouse Airfares (MLH) - France

Mulhouse, France - City Overview and Airfare Information

Mulhouse

Mulhouse (pronounced /myluz/; Alsatian: Milhüüsa; German: Mülhausen) is a town and commune in eastern France close to Swiss and German borders. It is the largest town in Haut-Rhin, and the second largest in Alsace after Strasbourg. Its designated local development area consists of 16 communes, but its conurbation is substantially larger than that.

Mulhouse is the chief town of an arrondissement of the Haut-Rhin département, of which it is a sous-préfecture.

Two rivers run through Mulhouse, the Doller and the Ill, both tributaries of the Rhine.

Medieval Mulhouse consists essentially of a lower and an upper town.

• The lower town was formerly the quarter of merchants and craftsmen. It developed around the Place de la Réunion (which commemorates its reunion with France). Nowadays this area is pedestrianised.
• The upper town developed from the 18th century on. Previously, several monastic orders were established there, notably the Franciscans, Augustinians, Poor Clares and Knights of Malta.
• The Nouveau Quartier (New Town) is the best example of urban planning in Mulhouse, and was developed from 1826 on, after the town walls had been removed (as they were in many French towns). It is focused around the Place de la République. Its network of streets and its triangular shape are a good demonstration of the town's desire for a planned layout. The planning was undertaken by the architects G. Stolz and Félix Fries. This quarter was taken up by rich families and the owners of local industries, who tended to be liberal and republican in their opinions.
• The Rebberg district consists of grand houses inspired by the colonnaded residences of Louisiana cotton planters. Originally, this was the town's vineyard (the word reb meaning vine). The houses here were built as terraces in the English style, a result of the town's close relationship with Manchester, where the sons of industrialists were often sent to study.

• Hôtel de Ville (16th century). The town hall was built in 1553 in the Rhenish Renaissance style. Montaigne described it as a 'palais magnifique et tout doré' ('a splendid palace gilded all over') in 1580. It is known for its trompe l'oeil paintings, and its pictures of allegories representing the vices and virtues.
• Workers' quarter (mid 19th century), inspired by districts in Manchester.
• Place de la Bourse and the building of the Société Industrielle de Mulhouse, in the Nouveau Quartier (19th century)
• Musée National de l'Automobile de Mulhouse (featuring the Schlumpf collection)
• French National Railway Museum
• Museum of Electricity (Electropolis)
• Museum of Printed Textiles (Musée de l'Impression sur Étoffes)
• Botanical gardens and zoo
• Numerous industrial ruins

• Automobile industry (Peugeot's Mulhouse factory is the largest employer in Alsace)
• Chemical industry (ICMD)
• Electronics (Clemessy)
• Engineering (SACM - Wärsitlä)

Mulhouse is served by Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg International Airport. Transport within Mulhouse is provided by a tram network, which opened on May 13, 2006[1] and is due to be further extended by 2008.

Mulhouse was the birth place of:

• Raphael da Costa (1973-Present), innovator and tri-lingual
• Jean de Beaugrand (1584-1640), lineographer and mathematician
• Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777), mathematician, physicist and astronomer
• Charles Frédéric Girard (1822-1895), biologist specializing on ichthyology and herpetology
• Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), French military officer best known for being the focus of the Dreyfus affair
• Georges Friedel (1865-1933), mineralogist, son of Charles Friedel
• Friedrich Wilhelm Levi (1888-1966), mathematician
• William Wyler (1902-1981), award-winning motion picture director
• Karl Brandt (1904-1948), Nazi German personal physician to Adolf Hitler and head administrator of the T-4 Euthanasia Program.
• Katia and Maurice Krafft, volcanologists
• Pierre Chambon (born 1931), biologist
• Mireille Delunsch (born 1962), soprano

• Jean-Marie Bockel (since 1989)
• Joseph Klifa (1981-1989)
• Emile Muller (1956-1981)

• Walsall, United Kingdom, since 1953
• Antwerp, Belgium, since 1956
• Kassel, Germany, since 1965
• Bergamo, Italy, since 1989
• Milwaukee, United States of America
• Chemnitz, Germany, since 1990
• Giv'atáyim, Israel, since 1991
• TimiÅŸoara, Romania, since 1991 (Coopération décentralisée)
• El Khroub, Algeria, since 1999 (Coopération décentralisée)
• Sofara, Mali, since 2003 (Coopération décentralisée)