Mühlacker

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Mühlacker

Coordinates: 48°57′0″N 8°50′22″E / 48.95000°N 8.83944°ECoordinates: 48°57′0″N 8°50′22″E / 48.95000°N 8.83944°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Frank Schneider (FDP)

Area

• Total

54.32 km² (20.97 sq mi)

Elevation

240 m (790 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

25,649

• Density

470/km² (1,200/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

75401–75417

07041

Website

Mühlacker is a town in the eastern part of the Enz district in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Mühlacker station has direct rail connections with Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, Pforzheim and the Northern Black Forest.

Since 1930, Mühlacker has been transmitter site, at which between 1934 and 1945 the tallest tower ever built of wood stood (height: 190 metres).

A further landmark is the water tower.

Mühlhausen an der Enz where Spree killer Ernst August Wagner killed 13 people in 1913 has been a part of the city since 1972.

The community of Ötisheim joined onto the city so as to act as a single municipality for certain tasks.

The Thirty Years' War brought hardship and misery. In 1648 were from originally 1242 inhabitants (1622) only 50 left. In the Nine Years' War (1688-1697) Dürrmenz was looted in 1692 by French troops. Eckenweiher was incorporated to Dürrmenz in 1832.

With the opening of the Württemberg Western Railway Stuttgart - Bruchsal in 1853 the industrial age began in space Dürrmenz-Mühlacker. As the Karlsruhe-Mühlacker railway was built in 1863, Mühlacker was at the same railway junction and border station. As a curiosity, it had yet to 1930 two stations side by side, the larger Württemberg station and the Baden railway station. Favored by the dismantling of custom barriers 1819-1851 and the abolition of the compulsory guild (1862), industrial enterprises settled near the train station.

After World War I, inflation, great depression and high unemployment interrupted the further development. In 1930, the large Mühlacker radio transmitter was put into operation.

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