Mulhouse Hotels

Mulhouse is the largest city in the Upper Rhine with 111,300 inhabitants (2004), France. Ville voisine de Belfort dans le Territoire, de Montbéliard dans le Doubs , du département du Bas-Rhin et des Vosges . Nearby town of Belfort in the Territory of Montbeliard in the Doubs, department of Bas-Rhin and Vosges. Mulhouse is an industrial city, which marked its architecture, there are many buildings Hausmanien. Mulhouse is a town in eastern France, the main centre of a district of the Haut-Rhin departement, of which it forms one of the sous-prefectures. It is the largest town in Haut-Rhin, and the second largest in Alsace after Strasbourg. Two rivers run through it, the Doller and the Ill, both tributaries of the Rhine. Its designated local development area consists of 16 communes, but its conurbation is substantially larger than that. The first written records of Mulhouse date from the 12th century. It was a member of the Decapole, an association of ten free towns in Alsace allied to the Swiss Confederation, which was a free republic until it was absorbed into France on January 4, 1798, in the French Directory period. The town's development was stimulated first by the expansion of the textile industry and tanning, and subsequently by chemical and engineering industries from the mid 18th century. In consequence Mulhouse has enduring links with Louisiana, from which it imported cotton, and also with the Levant. The town's history also explains why its centre is relatively small.