MULHAUSEN, mul'hon-zen. The second largest city of Alsace-Lorraine. Germany. situ ated on the III and the Rhine-Rhone Canal, 67 miles by rail south-southwest of Strassburg (Slap: Germany, B 5). It is divided into the old town, built on an island of the Ill. the new town, between the old town and the canal, and the workingmen's colony (cite ourri?Ye) in the northwest. The old town is ir regularly built, and with the exception of the Rathaus. dating from the sixteenth century. and a few modern churches, has few noteworthy build ings. The new town was laid out in the middle of the nineteenth century and has a fine post °thee, and a museum established by the Indus trial Society. The society is housed in a fine building with natural history collections and a library. The worldngmen's colony. established in 1853 by Mayor Dollfus. is provided with model dwellings and with reading rooms, schools, res taurants. baths. and other institutions belonging, to a modern town. The educational institutions of Millhausen include a g,ymnasium and a num ber of technical schools. It is the most im portant industrial city of Alsace-Lorraine and one of the largest textile centres of the Empire. This industry of Miilhausen dates from the middle of the eighteenth century, and the cotton mills are situated partly in the city and partly in the vicinity and especially- in the adjacent set tlement of Dornaelt. Over 80.000 persons are said
to be engaged in the textile mills and in other estaldishments connected with the textile indus try of the manufacturing district around .Nliil liansen. Besides cotton and woolen and kindred product-, there are also manufactured machinery and chemical.. and the trade is exten sive in local mantifaetures and the agricultural products of the vicinity. Population, in 1890, 70.892; in 1900. S9,012, largely Roman Catholics.
tithausen. after ladonging for a short time to the bishops of Strassburg. became a tree city of the Empire in 1273. In order to maintain its inde pendence. it entered into an alliance kith the Swiss of Bern and Solothurn in 11111i. and in 151 became a member of the Swiss Confedera tion, and was recognized as such at the Peace of Westphalia. It joined the French Republic in 17!r8, and passed to l;crinany with .1 lsaee-Lor mine in I871. Consult : .Nletzger. Lit rvpuItHijrie Ile 11 ullifirise. (Lyons, ISs3) ; Schneider, Gesehieh te iilha ( 31filliat).:01. I 8SS) ; Iivdemvici, .1 as Jct. lc (I( r licirlrsstudt ll allia ascii (Halle. WOO) Jordan, Der Urbrr ya freien ichsstatit .11 Obit usiai an sr n I:Mill:ow:en. 1 902 ).