Mulhouse - Hôtel de Ville

Mulhouse was first mentioned in a document in 803 as Mulinhuson.

Since 1354, the city was a member of the Alsatian League of Ten Cities (Decapole), which it left in 1515 in favor of an alliance with the Swiss Confederation, to which it remained an ally until 1798. In 1529, the city officially introduced the Reformation based on the Zwinglian model. Due to its close ties to Switzerland, Mulhouse remained Protestant-Reformed, the only city in the increasingly Lutheran Alsace.

After a customs blockade by the dominant neighbor and revolutionary unrest Mulhouse submitted to the French Republic in 1798. At the Congress of Vienna in 1814/1815 the city, like the surrounding Alsace, remained part of France. Through the Peace of Frankfurt in 1871, the area passed from France to Germany.

At the beginning of the First World War, French troops were able to briefly capture Mulhouse twice. After the war, Mulhouse returned to France in 1919. French was made compulsory as the official language and as a school language. After the Western campaign at the beginning of the Second World War, Mulhouse was again annexed to the German Reich until it was captured by the 1st French Army in 1944.

The Hôtel de Ville dates back to the 16th century