Mulhouse

	MULHOUSE Country: France Département: Haut-Rhin Additions: 1914 Dornach Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":47.74560000000000314912540488876402378082275390625,"lon":7.3360000000000002984279490192420780658721923828125,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
French	D'argent à la roue de moulin de huit aubes de gueules à quatre rais assemblés en croix et au moyeu carré.
English	blazon wanted

Origin/meaning

The arms are canting showing a water mill wheel (Mulhouse - or mill-house). The wheel first appeared on the local seal from 1267, and the arms have not been changed since 1390.

Image gallery

The arms in the Armorial Jörg Rügen (1495)
The arms around 1500
The arms on a 1623 coin
The arms in a 16^th century manuscript
The arms in a 16^th century manuscript
The arms in a 17^th century manuscript
Municipal letterhead 1850s
The arms in 1865
The municipal stamp shown in 1892
The arms by Schœnhaupt, 1900
The arms on a postcard from around 1900
The arms in the Wappen-Sammlung (1900)
A seal from around 1900
The arms on a bookmark (1870-1918)
The arms on a tobacco card by Laurens
The arms in the Café Sanka album +/- 1932
The arms on a cover (1979)
The arms on a cover (1981)

Literature: Wilsdorf, C.; Martin, P. and Gall, R. : Armorial des communes du Haut-Rhin. 1er volume, chef-lieux de canton. Colmar, 1963.

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