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Muhlhausen

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Mühlhausen 

a city in the German Democratic Republic, in the Erfurt District, on the upper Unstrut River. Population, 44,600 (1972).

The city is a center of the textile (wool and cotton), garment, and knitted goods industries. Other industries include electrotechnology, furniture, tobacco, leather, and food. Various types of machines are also built. Potassium salt and natural gas are extracted nearby.

Mühlhausen is first mentioned in eighth-century sources. During the Peasants’ War of 1524–26, the city was a center of the revolutionary movement in Thuringia and the chief center of T. Münzer’s activity.



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26, 1923, in Muhlhausen, Germany, to Heinrich and Doretta Kirchner Steinwachs.
Muntzer was a rebel on the run, attempting a coup in Muhlhausen mid-1524 that at first failed, and then succeeded for a few months in early 1525.
Ora Limor and Israel Jacob Yuval reconstruct several intellectual settings for the fifteenth-century Hebrew polemic, Sefer Hanizzahon, in which Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipmann Muhlhausen addresses philosophical arguments to Jewish doubters, as well as to Christian opponents.
 
 
 
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