Mühlheim an der Donau (or alternatively in English ''Mühlheim on the Danube'') is a town in the district

Tuttlingen Tuttlingen (Alemannic: ''Duttlinga'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, capital of the district Tuttlingen. Nendingen, ''Möhringen'' and ''Eßlingen'' are three former municipalities that belong to Tuttlingen. Tuttlingen is located in Swabia eas ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

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. It is situated on the

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, 7 km northeast of

History

While today the largest part of the city is on the right bank of the

, the city ''Mühlheim'' was founded on the left bank, where the old part of town is still to be found. There a spring provides enough water year-round to drive millwheels. There is evidence that

watermill A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in the production of ...

s were built here as early as the Roman imperium. The place takes its name from this, ''Mühlheim'' being equivalent to the English cognates: Mill-Home. An old trade route from the

Bodensee Lake Constance (german: Bodensee, ) refers to three bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (''Obersee''), Lower Lake Constance (''Untersee''), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Lake ...

crossed the river here, and from the ford at Mühlheim continued into the Albvorland after

Rottweil Rottweil (; Alemannic: ''Rautweil'') is a town in southwest Germany in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Rottweil was a free imperial city for nearly 600 years. Located between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alps, Rottweil has nearly 25,000 in ...

.
The first documentary mention of the city dates from the year 843.

Attractions

The

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city hall has been a listed historical monument since 1928. The earliest known written record dates to 1512, but a Romanesque

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is believed to date from around 1200. The castle was first built around 1200 and was reconstructed in its present form in the mid 18th century. The Galluschurch is Mühlheim's cemetery church. Parts of the building are Romanesque and date from the 10th and 11th centuries. The interior has

frescos Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

from the 14th and 15th centuries. The yellow rock offers a fantastic view on the meandering

valley.

References

External links

virtual travel through the town
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