Old Mulhouse trail

In late Renaissance style, the house has been listed since 1464 and was completely rebuilt in 1634. It is the oldest pharmacy in France still in activity (since 1649). Its painted ceilings date from the second half of the 17th century and the pharmacy’s furniture, from the Charles X period, is very well preserved.

Born in Mulhouse in 1725, Jean-Henri Lambert was one of the most famous scientists of his time, the "Age of Enlightenment". Astronomer, physicist, philosopher and mathematician, we owe him the cartographic projection and the theorem in astronomy, both of which bear his name. His work now allows you to discover the city by geolocation!

Built in the 16th century, this building was the presbytery of the former Church of Saint Stephen until the reform in 1528. From a Latin school from 1550 to the end of the 18th century, it became a college and then a school. It now houses the Centre d’Interprétation de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine as part of the label Ville d’Art et d’Histoire, better known as the Maison du Patrimoine Edouard Boeglin.

This temple was built between 1858 and 1868 on the site of a 12th century church. Its plans are due to Jean-Baptiste Schacre, in a neo-gothic style then very fashionable. It still houses the magnificent stained glass windows that were in this former church. These are among the most beautiful in the Upper Rhine. Located on the Place de la Réunion, the Temple Saint-Etienne is also a cultural centre in the heart of the city with its concerts, exhibitions and events, especially during the Christmas period.

Built in 1560 by Valentin Fries, it is the Mieg family, owners of the premises from 1675 to 1840, who gave it its name. It owes its present appearance to Mathieu Mieg who, in 1799, decorated the façade with murals of his composition evoking the Swiss hero Arnold de Winkelried. The Mieg House is the largest of the houses surrounding the Place de la Réunion.

The building dates from 1564 and was considerably transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries. The tailors’ guild was the most important in Mulhouse before the 1798 meeting. The emblems of this guild (tailor’s scissors) can be found on the murals of this building.

Destroyed by fire in 1551 and rebuilt the following year, Mulhouse’s Town Hall was described by Montaigne as «a magnificent palace, all gilded with gold». Since 1698, it has been adorned with trompe-l’oeil decorations by Jean Gabriel . This beautiful building, witness of the Rhenish Renaissance, now houses the Historical Museum.

Built by the manufacturer Vetter in 1788, this mansion takes its name from the Steinbach family, its owners in the 19th century. When George Steinbach died in 1893, the house was donated to the town and its park became the public garden of the same name. Today, the building houses the Museum of Fine Arts.

In 1776, Dr. Hofer bought part of the court of the Teutonic Knights and had this house built at the corner of William Tell Square.

The facade of the wineworkers' guild hall, dating from the 16th century, is decorated with murals. The door is surmounted by 3 serpents symbolizing the work of the vine. The guilds had a predominant place in the life of the Mulhouse Republic, and until the 13th century, the work of the vine was one of the main activities of the town, with its hillside of the Rebberg.

This passage takes its name from the former Augustinian cloister that was there. Built as early as 1298, it was decommissioned following the introduction of the Reformation in 1523. A hospital was installed there from 1529 to 1624. The passageway was pierced between 1761 and 1763 after the demolition of the monastery.

Dating from the last quarter of the 18th century, it was erected on the site of the noble court of the Fritschmann family from Illzach. From 1764 and for a century it housed a painted canvas factory which changed hands several times. In the middle of the 19th century, the Schlumberger family, then owners, demolished the buildings. The new building housed the Bank of Mulhouse between 1872 and 1883.

Built between 1770 and 1780 on the site of the Knights of St. John’s enclosure, it housed commercial premises before being transformed into a manor house in 1824 with a sober façade and wrought-iron gates. In 1790, it housed the wallpaper factory Nicolas Dollfus, ancestor of Jean Zuber et Cie in Rixheim.

Built in 1269 by the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem, the chapel was enlarged in 1351. Around 1500 a side chapel was added, while 20 years later, (unfinished) mural paintings of great stylistic quality, depicting the life of St. John the Baptist and the Passion of Christ, were executed. With the Reformation, the Knights of St. John left the city and in 1798 their possessions were finally seized and sold. The chapel then became a brewery and then a blacksmith’s workshop, before being listed as a historical monument in 1893.

This library, the oldest, has occupied the current buildings since 1905. It offers: approximately 45,000 adult books, self-service computer stations, a documentation room and three rooms for group work, an exhibition room, an animatinos room, a heritage room reserved for the consultation of documents kept in the library’s stores and which cannot be borrowed, a youth room, a patio for reading in the sun.

This house, built around 1800, has a very sober facade and a double staircase, reminiscent of the decorative elements of the Age of Enlightenment. From 1825 to 1833, it was inhabited by Paul Curie, grandfather of the famous physicist Pierre Curie.

House built around 1760. The first known example in Mulhouse of a house of Indienneurs, which housed a factory of Indians, these canvases printed on the board with motifs of oriental inspiration.

Pierre Thierry, originally from Lorraine, acquired the former noble court of the Wunnenbergs in 1725, which he restored and embellished. In 1765, it housed a painted canvas factory by Jean-Henri Dollfus, then from 1820, a spinning mill by Nicolas Koechlin. These factories burn down in 1870 and are replaced by a primary school. This building was an exception in the 18th century as it was the only one to have foundation stones, chaining and bay frames in pink sandstone.

This house, built around 1796 for Jean-Jacques Ziegler, an industrialist, housed a fabric printing plant from 1800 to 1810 and then a roller engraving plant. This second factory belonged to Daniel Koechlin Ziegler, co-founder of the School of Drawing, now the School of Fine Arts, from 1827 to 1862. The building was then used for the Brinckmann printing works from 1892 onwards.

Originally a Franciscan convent founded in the second half of the 13th century, the development of the future Church of Saint Mary was halted by the installation of the Reformation in the 16th century in Mulhouse. The former convent was used as an artillery depot before the restoration of Catholic worship in the early 19th century in the Church of Sainte-Marie. Since then, various restoration works have been carried out and the church frequently hosts choirs.

Around 1764, Jean-Jacques Feer certainly built the most beautiful 18th century Mulhouse mansion in freestone. Named «Zum Loewenfels» (the lion’s rock) because of the coat of arms painted on two shields on the pediment, the mansion was sold to Jacques Degermann in 1847, who set up a brewery there. The Cercle Sainte-Marie bought the property in 1949 and installed the presbytery and the parish hall.

In 1778, Simon Vogel, a Mulhouse merchant, acquired this building on the site of the city’s first hospital to build his mansion. From 1866 to 1870, the building housed the Sub-Prefecture and then the Kreisdirektion, its German equivalent, until 1882. Since then, it has housed shops.