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Wilhelm Mülhens
Wilhelm Mülhens (born 25 June 1762 in Troisdorf and died 6 March 1841 in Köln) was a Cologne perfume designer and manufacturer, and the founder of the Mülhens company, famous for the fragrance " 4711". Life and work Wilhelm Mühlens was the sixth of eleven children of Jakob Mülhens and his wife Anna, née Volberg. His life prior to 1796 is not well known. In 1803 Carlo Farina, who was not part of the famous cologne-producing family, fraudulently sold William Mülhens that family's naming rights. In 1805 Mühlens was first recorded as a cologne manufacturer, later sold under the product name '' 4711'' from 1881. After the Napoleonic wars his company also exported the cologne abroad, including Paris and Stralsund Stralsund (; Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neub .... In 183 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troisdorf
Troisdorf () is a city in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (district), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Troisdorf is located approximately 22 kilometers south of Cologne and 13 kilometers north east of Bonn. Division of the city Troisdorf consists of 12 districts (population as of April, 2014): * Troisdorf-Mitte (16,414 inhabitants) * Altenrath (2,292 inhabitants) * Bergheim (5,750 inhabitants) * Eschmar (3,078 inhabitants) * Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte (7,161 inhabitants) * Kriegsdorf (3,129 inhabitants) * Müllekoven (1,793 inhabitants) * Oberlar (6,100 inhabitants) * Rotter See (3,918 inhabitants) * Sieglar (8,668 inhabitants) * Spich (12,765 inhabitants) * West (5,367 inhabitants) : Total: 76,435 inhabitants History Troisdorf became a free city in 1952. In 1969, the urban area expanded with the annexation of the township of Sieglar and the villages of Altenrath and Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte (total population in 1969: about 51,000). The first large settlements in this area go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
