Mühlhausen

Mühlhausen was a free imperial city on the Unstrut in Thuringia. By 1337 it belonged to the Hanseatic League, and its textile and woad trades brought prosperity.

In 1349 its Jewish community was destroyed during the Black Death persecutions. In the Peasants' War of 1525, preaching by Heinrich Pfeiffer and Thomas Müntzer helped bring down the council; the revolt was crushed and Müntzer beheaded. The Reformation was imposed in 1542. Prussia received the city in 1803, although it belonged to Westphalia from 1807 to 1815.