Bend your ear .., .. fanfare, The Post is here ...,
it sounded sooner, if the Postillion arrived at the post office ...
Well ... in the Middle Ages, there was actually no real mail ..
Only the rulers and then the cities talking messengers, which brought about the written message to the recipient.
Where was the letter anyway first thing the monks, but then stopped himself and the men and the cities of their own clerks and the office - where the letters and records were kept - was an important place.
Increased trade also brought new forms of money economy and soon learned the gentlemen and the citizens can read and write and there was always more the need to send written messages and far across the country. However, the transfer was transmit messages with their own messenger too expensive and soon formed the first post offices, which carried to a transport fee letters, etc..
The Lords of Thurn and Taxis were in 1595 by the Emperor as postmaster general used for the kingdom and gradually emerged throughout the kingdom Taxische Thurn and postal stations.
But the princes in their territories directed at that time a state-owned post offices.
was in the free city of Mulhouse early as 1634 the Thurn and Taxische post house in the wood-Straße 1, the previous cell's yard. Mühlhausen became a major stopover between post houses in the north and south and between east and west.
Sun led in the mail order line in 1634, several routes from Frankfurt to Mulhouse. Sun, among others to Hamburg and Leipzig.
The post went to Mühlhausen Tuesdays and Saturdays from here to Frankfurt and took three days.
addition to the Post Riders were then on the mail car, first only for the letter and Parcel post and later as a people-coach.
1645 the Chronicle reported that the postmaster of Erfurt wanted to set up a horse mail between Mulhouse and Erfurt, and the same year came the first post from Erfurt in Mulhouse.
From 1700 was then the staging post in the new corner house at St. Mary's Church 5, where in 1775 a fire broke out, but could be quickly extinguished.
1802, the transition of the previously placed free imperial city in Prussia at the post house of the Prussian eagle and placed next to the entrance with a sentry guard. The Post went so
sovereignty of the Thurn and Taxis post about the Prussian royal mail.
led By 1800, eight stagecoach lines through Mulhouse,
Sun Others by Gotha Brunswick, from Erfurt Hildesheim, from Weimar to Hannover and from Eisenach to Nordhausen, and by Kassel Sondershausen to Halle and Sömmerda after Leipzig
On the arrival of the coach on the market in Gotha.
From 1805 to 1816 was the post office housed in the building at St. Mary's Church 6 and from 1817 to 1849 in the house 11 Street bridge
were predominantly used as a post office representative houses in which those stables for the horses of the Postillions were present.
Baroque house in the road 11 bridge was the beginning of the 19th Century, the Hagen family break and then make the house frequently distinguished guests stayed. Thus the Prussian General von Wartensleben, the Prince of Reuss and the Crown Prince of Sweden.
used after the death of the widow Hagen fraction as Posthalterei recreate, then 1853 was registered as the owner Gerichtsdierktor Lindau in the land.
The coach had developed into a popular means of transport of people, as your own coach was reserved only for better society and the boys were walking anyway eangewiesen on foot.
The post office was always a popular meeting place. Stayed but was mostly in the nearby guest houses, of whom there were at the upper market and in the sub-market multiple.
were originally sent out the letters, nor as a sealed letter, which was cleared by hand-written note. Later came the official postal stamp and added the first stamps in 1850. As the address
was then often known buildings in the vicinity stated, eg ".. in the house of the widow Meier next to the Golden Lion .."
The outgoing mail was then delivered still in the post office, but the incoming mail was already discharged through postmen.
The continuous numbering of the houses in the center and the various suburbs in 1762 and the establishment of official street names in 1829 facilitated the previously often difficult delivery.
From 1840 to 1857, the post was in the house on the market under 37 and from 1857 to 1882 No.33 in the house. from here was also the first telegraph connection in 1861 to Sondershausen.
been since the late seventies, then also the first letter boxes, where they were now thrown in the franked mail.
It was 1880 in the City 14 boxes and 1891, then already 34th
With the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, was then the German Reich postal uniform.
had forecast the various German states still own most of the post-sovereignty.
The stagecoaches went until the end of the 19th Century until 1897 and went to the opening of the railway to Ebeleben after the last stagecoach Schlotheim.
1882 opening of the Imperial General Post Office at the upper market, which soon became known as the Mühlhäuser Post Place. 
was established here in 1887 the first telephone exchange and soon had the Government and large businesses and hotels, the first telephone lines.
on the site of the former "post-cellar" 1913-14 was the new package post office, which his entrance had the upper market.
Transport the mail was now exclusively with the railroad that this particular railway mail cars on the trains stopped and in larger cities there were railway post offices where the mailings are sorted and forwarded.
More and more companies and individuals now had a phone. The exchange took place but in the central office still by hand until the early twenties had also enforced the Selbstwählverkehr.
Then came the time when the place was called post-Hitler-Platz and then find the post from 1939 primarily Field Post carried. Field Post parcels were only up to a certain size allowed and were soon sent to the fronts in Europe.
particularly in the last years of the war came from the front, then more and more deaths and missing persons ... and many came no more news.
1945 came the end of the German Reich and post-Mulhouse was from July '45 to the Soviet zone of occupation.
the east and west there was soon separate stamp issues and postal organization went their separate ways.
In 1949 only to Germany and then the GDR was founded, then the separation was final.
In Mulhouse but remained largely intact the structure of the post. In addition to the main post office there was a post office opposite the railway station and in the Saxon settlement was a post office established.
In the GDR, then the Post and Telecommunications has been reorganized. There was no official post more but only employees who had but as with the railways a bes0nderen status.
still wore the postal uniform and still there was the yellow postal buses. The phone booth had been retained the yellow color 8ND - since the Telefonanschlüüse could not be made sufficiently ready - set up increasingly in the urban area.
The East German stamps with their diverse Motifs were popular with many collectors, the so-called blocking values were available only to a limited and were often sold to collectors card.
in domestic mail service - the term did not correspond to the intra-German-East German language - there was always more differences. Sun letters were opened by the Stasi, intercepted telephone conversations and the parcel post throughout kontrolliert.Egal whether Western package or Ostpaket often corresponded to the contents are not the strict customs and shipping regulations and was either sent withheld back or
was Since the correspondence in "friendly territory" already treated more generous and many young pioneers developed pen pals to friends in the Soviet Union, and especially not actually permitted stamp exchange was at the forefront.
from the post office place now the Karl-Marx-Platz had become when the Karl-Marx-bust verschwandt but soon after the turn back again. The "title of honor" Mühlhausen - Thomas Munzer City did not last long. awarded in 1975 by the Ministers of the GDR, and this nickname after the turn was abolished.
Had the designers of the the Thomas Munzer block of 1989 already guessed, for though Frankenhausen identified as Bad Frankenhausen was received Mühlhausen his "honorary title of" not ...
And then came 1989 and the turn together, grows together what belongs together ... and then came the last day of validity for the GDR and the German postal stamps was taken over by the federal postal system.
... and then it took only a few years and the Federal Post Office moved in 1997 from the upper to the market sub-31 market and opened an "open-service branch. The previous main post office - which opened 115 years ago - was the post at large after the Telekom had verselbsständigt - and what must not be counted - even tradition, tradition ago - away ...
.. but here was the post not long ... and then moved to the Castle Gallery at ...
Meanwhile it was observed also that in much of the city were too many boxes ... and the number fell sharply ... and so developed the post - much like the Federal Railways - toward private companies ... which makes for sheer profit, missing the past customer friendly ...
.. But the friendly letter carrier is still left to us at least ..
.. and the friendly stamp even if it is hostile to self-adhesive collectors now and may soon eclipsed by the Internet e-mail to the outside ...
... ... by the way, Smiley has seriously considered whether the post is still relevant ..., where she is busy anyway with the service of advertising almost full ... the poor postman, who had earlier just to bear a few letters, .. today have to tow with masses of catalogs and other promotional scrap .. at no extra charge for difficult ...
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