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Mulhouse is a commune with a population of 108,312 in 2019. [5] This commune is part of an urban unit also named Mulhouse with 247,065 inhabitants in 2018. [3]Additionally Mulhouse commune is the principal commune of the 39 communes which make up the communauté d'agglomération of Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération (m2A, population 280,000 in 2020).
1273 – Mulhouse becomes an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire and receives privileges from Rudolph of Hapsburg. [1] [2] 1466 – Mulhouse "formed an alliance with the Swiss." [2] 1515 – Mulhouse becomes part of the Swiss Confederacy. [1] 1528 – Protestant reformation. [2] 1553 – Hôtel de ville de Mulhouse (city hall) rebuilt ...
In 1841, Emile Dollfus (brother of Jean Dollfus, director of DMC, mayor of Mulhouse in 1843 who succeeded his brother-in-law, André Koechlin, and future initiator of the working class city of Mulhouse) added the manufacture of thread sewing to the activities of DMC, the specialty that has made the reputation of the company.
The Musée historique de Mulhouse opened on the second floor of the building in 1864. [11] One of the exhibits added to the collection in the museum was the "Die Klapperstein" (the chatter stone) which was worn round their neck by slanderers, accused of malevolent chatter, as they walked through the city and were pelted with rocks as punishment.
The development was so novel and admirable that Napoleon III made 30,000 francs available to assist the project [4] and Dollfus became the Mayor of Mulhouse from 1863 to 1869. By 1885 the society had constructed 1,060 workers' houses in Mulhouse and had sold 775 of them at cost to their occupants.
Under his lead, between 1818 and 1826, the company became the leading textile company of Mulhouse. Turning in 1826 to the building of machinery for the textile industry, Koechlin became knowledgeable in the fabrication of steam machines and started making railroad equipment. The firm prospered and in 1839 already employed 1,800 people.
They are best known for founding the Schlumpf Collection currently housed in Musée National de l'Automobile de Mulhouse. The Schlumpf Collection which was founded and developed between 1935 and 1976 belongs to the world's most important private automobile collections with over 560 automobiles of various luxury and sports car makes, most ...
The Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération is the Communauté d'agglomération, a type of local government structure, covering the metropolitan area of the city of Mulhouse in the department of Haut-Rhin and the region of Grand Est, northeastern France. [1] Its area is 439.2 km 2. Its population was 274,066 in 2018, of which 108,942 in Mulhouse proper. [2]