Mulhouse 1770-1798 (Germany)

Free Imperial City of Mulhouse, Freie Reichsstadt Mülhausen

Last modified: 2002-11-02 by santiago dotor
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by Jaume Ollé

• Introduction
• Republic of Mulhouse 1789

See also:

• Municipality of Mulhouse (France)
• Swiss Mercenary Flags
• Historical Flags (Germany)
• Germany

Some information from Mattern 1972:

Since 1267 Mulhouse (Mühlhausen) has borne canting arms — argent a mill wheel of eight paddles gules. [Mühlhausen is German for "mill houses"]. We do not know anything about medieval city flags. The only available sources are weather vanes with the mill wheel and occasional hints about banners in Swiss chronicles, as well as the red and white rank flags in the clothing of municipal employees and soldiers. On the other hand the Julius banner of Mulhouse, granted by Cardinal Schiner to the city (which served as an ally of the Swiss Confederation 1506-1798) for her services to the Roman Catholic Church, is well known (see The Flag Bulletin, Volume X, N° 2-3, pp. 107-115).

The investiture decree of Pope Julius II, dated 20 December 1512, grants the city a banner charged with St. Stephen, patron of t