Mulhouse

Mulhouse dates back to the XIIth century. Medieval Mulhouse consists of an upper and a lower town.

• The upper town developed from the 18th century on.
• The lower town used to be the quarter of merchants and craftsmen. It developed around the Place de la Réunion (which commemorates its reunion with France). Nowadays this area is for pedestrians.

Mulhouse is in the southern part of the plain of Alsace in the Haut-Rhin department. Two rivers run through Mulhouse, the Doller and the Ill, both tributaries of the Rhine.

It has an area of 22.2 km² (8.6 sq mi).^[1] Its average altitude is 284 m (932 ft); at the city hall, the altitude is 255 m (837 ft).^[2]

The distances from Mulhouse to other cities are:

• Paris, the national capital - 540 km (340 mi);
• Strasbourg, the regional capital - 117 km (73 mi);
• Marseille - 697 km (433 mi);
• Lyon - 386 km (240 mi);
• Reims - 462 km (287 mi);
• Bordeaux - 863 km (536 mi);
• Toulouse - 864 km (537 mi);
• Montpellier - 683 km (424 mi);
• Nice - 686 km (426 mi).

Mulhouse and its neighboring communes

The commune of Mulhouse is surrounded by the communes Riedisheim, Rixheim, Morschwiller-le-Bas and Pfastatt.

The area around Mulhouse, at an altitude of about 270 m (890 ft), is characterized by climates with few extremes of temperature. The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Strasbourg is a "Marine West Coast Climate" and of the subtype "Cfb".^[3]

The average amount of precipitation for the year in Mulhouse is 817.9 mm (32.2 in). The month with the most precipitation on average is June with 99.1 mm (3.9 in) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is January with an average of 40.6 mm (1.6 in).

The average temperature for the year in Mulhouse is 10 °C (50 °F). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 19.4 °C (66.9 °F). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 0.6 °C (33.1 °F).^[3]

 

Place de la Réunion in Mulhouse.

The inhabitants of Mulhouse are known, in French, as Mulhousiens (women: Mulhousiennes).^[4]

With a population of 111,167,^[5] Mulhouse has a population density of 5,012 inhabitants/km².

Evolution of the population in Mulhouse

Mulhouse forms, together with 19 other communes, the urban area of Mulhouse with a population of 246,693 inhabitants (2014) and an area of 239.1 km² (92.3 sq mi).^[6] This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Mulhouse, formed by 60 communes with a population of 285,603 inhabitants and an area of 505.3 km² (195.1 sq mi).^[7]

Mulhouse is a subprefecture of the Haut-Rhin department since 1857. It is the capital of the Mulhouse arrondissement and is also the administrative centre (French: chef-lieu) of 3 cantons:^[8]

1. Mulhouse-1, formed with a part of Mulhouse, with 40,752 inhabitants (2014).
2. Mulhouse-2, formed with a part of Mulhouse, with 42,558 inhabitants (2014).
3. Mulhouse-3, formed with a part of Mulhouse and the commune Illzach, with 42,305 inhabitants (2014).

It is part of the intercommunality Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération.

Mulhouse is twinned with:

•   Walsall, England, since 1953
•   Antwerp, Belgium, since 1956
•   Kassel, Germany, since 1965
•   Bergamo, Italy, since 1989
•   Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
•   Chemnitz, Germany, since 1990
•   Giv'atayim, Israel, since 1991
•   Timişoara, Romania, since 1991 (Coopération décentralisée)
•   Arkhangelsk, Russia, since 1992
•   El Khroub, Algeria, since 1999 (Coopération décentralisée)
•   Sofara, Mali, since 2003 (Coopération décentralisée)

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  Saint-Etienne temple.
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  Campus "La Fonderie" of the Upper Alsace University.
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  Old town hall of Mulhouse.
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  Sainte-Geneviève church.
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  Tramway in Mulhouse.

• Arrondissement of Mulhouse
• Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mulhouse.

• Ville de Mulhouse - Official site (in French)
• Official website of the Tourist Office of Mulhouse and its region