Mühlhausen in Thüringen - Ein Bildband

Mühlhausen in Thuringia - Muhlhouse en Thuringe - Mühlhausen en Turingia - Mühlhausen en Turingia - von Harald Rockstuhl - Taschenbuch, 48 S., 240 farb. Fotos - 15 x 21 cm-The town of Mühlhausen in Thuringia owes its name from Carolingian times to a few "houses near a water mill." As early as 967, when Mühlhausen was mentioned in a document for the first time, it was referred to as an Ottonian palatine residence. Thanks to conditions favourable to development, the settlement grew into one of the most important towns in Central Germany and gained the status of an imperial city.The 12 churches and chapels still existing, the town hall with its first documented mention in 1310, the internal town wall, which has been largely preserved in its original state and features a defensive passageway walkable on a 300-m long stretch, as well as lanes, squares and burgher houses testify to Mühlhausen's mediaeval heydays. Forming part of the town wall, the imposing Raven Tower affords a view over the red roofs of the town all the way to the hills of the Hainich Range and the Eichsfeld Region.It is not only buildings that reflect nine centuries of municipal history, but also the oldest existing municipal law records in the German language, legal instruments and other documents, all of them on display in the Archives of the Free Imperial City established in 1615.Through the action of radical reformer Thomas Müntzer, Mühlhausen became the centre of the Thuringian uprising during the years of early Reformation and the German Peasants' Revolt in 1525. The German Peasants' Revolt Museum housed in Barfüsserkirche (Discalced Friars' Church) and a Müntzer exhibition on show in five-aisled Marienkirche (Saint Mary's Church), Thomas Müntzer's parish church, are devoted to this theme.Being a place where protestant church music is performed and cultivated, Divi Blasii (Blaise the Divine Church), the old town's Early Gothic main church, boasting an organ built to Johann Sebastian Bach's ideas,