Muhlbach-sur-Bruche

Muhlbach-sur-Bruche
region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Molsheim
Canton	Dirty
Community association	Vallée de la Bruche
Coordinates	48 ° 31 ' N , 7 ° 18' E Coordinates: 48 ° 31 ' N , 7 ° 18' E
height	228-620 m
surface	8.38 km 2
Residents	641 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	76 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	67130
INSEE code	67306
Website	www.muhlbachsurbruche.fr

Muhlbach-sur-Bruche (German: Mühlbach an der Breusch ) is a French commune with 641 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). The village is located in the Breuschtal and is passed by the Route Express de la Vallée de la Bruche and the Strasbourg – Saint-Dié railway of the SNCF .

coat of arms

The upper part is the Rohan coat of arms. For a long time, until the Revolution, the place belonged to the bishops of Strasbourg. The four last bishops of Strasbourg were the Rohan family, originally from Brittany . It is split, on the right (actually in red) nine (3: 3: 3) golden window diamonds (Rohan) and on the left a depiction of ermine (Brittany). The lower part symbolizes the mill, which is economically important for the place.

Attractions

Church of Our Lady of the Assumption. The former larger baroque from 1721 was completely rebuilt in 1826. The neo-Gothic church building contains a 40 m high bell tower, a single nave and a polygonal choir. Inside, the Stiehr-Mockers organ was installed in 1881.
Castle / Chateau du Mullerhof. A Henry Müller from nearby Schirmeck bought a mill in Muhlbach-sur-Bruche in 1840 and installed a rotating loom there. He also built a chateau-like property that was named Mullerhof. Today the Dominicans run the College Saint Thomas Aquinas, a private school / lycée, in this property.
Sepulchral chapel from 1861 near Mullerhof, Muhlbach-sur-Bruche. This neo-Gothic burial chapel was built under the Second Empire by order of the industrialist Jean-Baptiste Muller and his wife Caroline Baumlin as an extension to their Castle / Chateau du Mullerhof. The archiktetus was supposedly Viollet-le-Duc . Several large industrialists from the Coulaux family lie beneath the engraved floor slabs. The mother of Canon Paul Muller Simonis was also buried here. In Alsace, this private burial chapel is practically unmatched in its monumentality. It is a listed building and is now privately owned.