Mühlhausen

Mühlhausen
Mühlhausen
Town
	Coat of arms
	Location of Mühlhausen
Country	Germany
State	Thuringia
District	Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis
Government
• Lord mayor	Hans-Dieter Dörbaum (Ind.)
Area
• Total	86.34 km2 (33.34 sq mi)
Elevation	216 m (709 ft)
Population (2006-12-31)
• Total	36,874
• Density	430/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	99974
Dialling codes	03601
Vehicle registration	UH
Website	www.muehlhausen.de

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Mühlhausen (official Mühlhausen/Thüringen) is a city in the federal state Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the Unstrut-Hainich district, and lies along the river Unstrut. Mühlhausen had c. 37,000 inhabitants in 2006.

History

Mühlhausen in Thuringia is first mentioned in 967 as an Ottonian Pfalz village. It had its period of glory during the 13th through the 15th century.

The radical reformer Thomas Müntzer preached in St. Marien church in 1525.

Johann Sebastian Bach was an organist in the Divi Blasii church between 1708 and 1709.

From 1944 into March 1945 the Buchenwald administration opened a women's subcamp directly outside Mühlhausen. The women in the small camp worked under brutal conditions for little food. The women were deported in April 1945 to Bergen Belsen.