Main sights

thumb|Christmas market in Mulhouse

thumb|Société Industrielle building

thumb|[[Temple Saint-Étienne on the Place de la Réunion]]

thumb|[[Hôtel de Ville, Mulhouse|Hôtel de Ville (Rothüs in Alsatian)]]

  • Hôtel de Ville (1552). The town hall was built in 1553 in the Rhenish Renaissance style. Montaigne described it as a "palais magnifique et tout doré" ("splendid golden palace") in 1580. It is known for its trompe-l'œil paintings, and its pictures of allegories representing the vices and virtues.
  • Workers' quarter (mid 19th century), inspired workers' quarters in many other industrial towns.
  • Place de la Bourse and the building of the Société Industrielle de Mulhouse, in the Nouveau Quartier (19th century)
  • Cité de l'Automobile (featuring the Schlumpf collection)
  • Cité du Train successor to Musée Français du Chemin de Fer (French National Railway Museum)
  • Museum of Electricity (Electropolis)
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts Museum)
  • Musée historique (History Museum, located in the Hôtel de Ville)
  • Museum of Printed Textiles (Musée de l'impression sur étoffes)
  • The Parc Zoologique et Botanique de Mulhouse (botanical garden and zoo)
  • Saint-Steffen Calvinist temple (1859–1869), by Jean-Baptiste Schacre
  • Miscellaneous street art works all around the town, amongst them a picture of Milhouse van Houten from The Simpsons as his name is pronounced similarly to Mulhouse in the French-dubbed version.

Principal economic activities

thumb|Main commercial areas

thumb|Campus "La Fonderie" of the [[Upper Alsace University]]

As early as the mid-19th century, Mulhouse was known as "the industrial capital of Alsace", the "city with a hundred chimneys" (cité aux cent cheminées) and "the French Manchester".

Education

The École nationale supérieure de chimie de Mulhouse, the first school of Chemistry in France, is located in the city.

Transport

thumb|Tram in Mulhouse

Air

Mulhouse is served by EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, located south of the town.

Rail

Gare de Mulhouse is well connected with the rest of France by train, including major destinations such as Paris, Dijon, Besançon, Belfort, Strasbourg, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier and Lille. Some trains operate to destinations in Switzerland, in particular proximity Basel, Bern and Zürich. There is also a train service to Frankfurt am Main in Germany, and a Eurocity service that connects Brussels, Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Basel calls at Mulhouse.

Regional services connect Mulhouse to Colmar, Strasbourg, Basel, Belfort, Kruth and Freiburg im Breisgau.

Urban transport

Transport within Mulhouse is provided by Soléa and comprises a network of buses together with the city's tram network, which opened on 13 May 2006. The tramway now consists of three tram lines and one tram-train line.

  • Line 2 from Nouveau Bassin to Coteaux
  • Line 1 from Gare Centrale to Châtaignier
  • Line 3 from Gare Centrale to Lutterbach
  • Tram-train line from Gare Centrale to Thann via Lutterbach

Road

Motorway A36 is the main axis connecting the city with the west of the country, to cities such as Dijon, Paris and Lyon. The A35 is the main north–south axis, connecting cities such as Strasbourg and Basel.

Sports

Mulhouse is one of the nation's hubs for women's volleyball. ASPTT Mulhouse won multiple titles at the National level. The team plays its home games at the Palais des Sports.

Additionally, FC Mulhouse Basket is based in Mulhouse.

People

Mulhouse was the birthplace of:

  • Maurice Achener (1881–1963), French illustrator, painter, and print maker
  • Jean de Beaugrand (1584–1640), lineographer and mathematician
  • (born 1955), composer and synthesist
  • Bernard Bloch (born 1949), actor and director
  • Jean Brenner (1937–2009), painter
  • Karl Brandt (1904–1948), German Nazi personal physician to Adolf Hitler and head administrator of the T-4 Euthanasia Program, executed for war crimes
  • David Cage (born 1969), French video game designer, writer and musician. Born in Mulhouse, Cage was the first game developer to receive the Legion of Honour, the highest decoration granted in France.
  • Pierre Chambon (born 1931), biologist
  • Cléopatre Darleux (born 1989), handball goalkeeper
  • Mireille Delunsch (born 1962), soprano
  • Tom Dillmann (born 1989), racing driver
  • Artur Dinter (1876–1948), writer and Nazi politician
  • Dorian Diring (born 1992), footballer
  • Adrien Dollfus (1858–1921), French zoologist and carcinologist
  • Jean Dollfus (1800–1887), French industrialist
  • Jean Dorst (1924–2001), ornithologist
  • Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935), French military officer best known for being the focus of the Dreyfus affair
  • Huguette Dreyfus (1928–2016), harpsichordist
  • Léon Ehrhart (1854–1875), composer
  • Yann Ehrlacher (born 1996), racing driver
  • Nusch Éluard (1906–1946), performer, model and surrealist artist
  • François Florent (born François Eichholtzer, 1937), actor, founder of the Cours Florent
  • Georges Friedel (1865–1933), mineralogist, son of Charles Friedel
  • Charles Frédéric Girard (1822–1895), biologist specializing on ichthyology and herpetology
  • Pierre Haffner (1718–1760), film critic
  • Jean-Gaspard Heilmann (1718–1760), painter
  • (1822–1859), photographer
  • (1898–1964), diplomat
  • Daniel Jelensperger (1799–1831), musicologist
  • Katia and Maurice Krafft, volcanologists
  • Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777), mathematician, physicist and astronomer
  • Joffrey Lauvergne (born 1991), basketball player
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Levi (1888–1966), mathematician
  • François Loeser (born 1958), mathematician
  • Paul Meyer (born 1965), clarinetist
  • Hervé Milazzo (born 1975), professional footballer
  • Véronique North-Minca (born 1953), diplomat
  • Philippe Muller (born 1946), french cellist
  • Thierry Omeyer (born 1976), handball goalkeeper
  • Marc Pfertzel (born 1981), football player
  • Rémy Pflimlin (1954–2016), CEO of France Télévisions from 2010 to 2015
  • Pierre Probst (1913–2007), comic and children book artist
  • Napoléon Henri Reber (1807–1880), composer
  • John Loretz (1840–1908), organist and composer
  • Claire Roman (1906–1941), French Air Force pilot in World War II
  • Daniel Roth (born 1942), organist, composer and pedagogue
  • Franz Eugen Schlachter (1859–1911), revivalist preacher, classical scholar, and translator of the Schlachter Bible
  • Christiane Scrivener (born 1925), EU-Commissioner
  • Daniel Schlumberger (1904–1972), archaeologist and professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Strasbourg and later Princeton University
  • (born 1953), writer
  • Jean Schlumberger (1907–1987), jewelry designer at Tiffany & Co
  • René Schützenberger (1860–1916), painter
  • Jules Siegfried born Mulhouse in 1837, industrialist and politician, French Minister of Commerce 1892–3
  • Rémy Stricker (1936–2019), musicologist
  • Frank Ténot (1925–2004), press agent, pataphysician and jazz critic
  • Philippe Tondre (born 1989), oboist
  • Thomas Trauttmann (born 1991), basketball player
  • Vitaa (born 1983), singer
  • Pierre Weiss (1865–1940), physicist
  • Alfred Werner (1866–1919), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1913
  • Jules Auguste Wiernsberger (1857–1925), composer and conductor
  • (1887–1951), photographer
  • Robert Wyler (1900–1971), film producer
  • William Wyler (1902–1981), award-winning motion picture director
  • Jean-Marc Savelli (born at Mulhouse in 1955), a virtuoso concert pianist
  • Antar Yahia (born 1982), football player
  • Georges Zipélius (1808–1890), illustrator

Other residents include:

  • Adolphe Braun (1812–1877), photographer
  • Alfred de Glehn (1848–1936), designer of steam locomotives

Twin towns—sister cities

Mulhouse is twinned with:

  • Walsall, England, since 1953
  • Antwerp, Belgium, since 1956
  • Kassel, Germany, since 1965
  • Bergamo, Italy, since 1989
  • Chemnitz, Germany, since 1990
  • Giv'atayim, Israel, since 1991
  • Timișoara, Romania, since 1991
  • Jining, China, since 1996

See also

  • Dornach (Mulhouse)

References

Bibliography

  • Official website of the Tourist Office of Mulhouse and its region
  • Official website of the Convention Bureau of Mulhouse and its region
  • The Mulhousian Ferret: High Resolution Video Guide of Mulhouse
  • MulhouseBienvenue.com City Guide Town of Mulhouse
  • Museum of Printed Textiles