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Mühle House

part of heritage site in Timișoara, Romania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ26972832 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Mühle House (Romanian: Casa Mühle) is a historical villa in the Elisabetin district of Timișoara, Romania. The house belonged to the famous family of florists Mühle. It is part of Michael the Brave Boulevard urban ensemble, listed as a historical monument with LMI code TM-II-a-B-06110.

History

By the mid-19th century, there was another house approximately on the site of the current building. It was built somewhere between 1866 and 1868 and purchased by Wilhelm (Vilmos) Mühle in 1878. A year after his father's death, in 1909, Árpád will obtain a building permit for a house with a garden, a building that can still be seen today. The Mühle House was designed by the Viennese architect Oskar Reinhart, and the builder was Josef Hofgärtner from Timișoara. Reinhart was related to the famous family of florists from Timișoara, his mother's maiden name being Anna Mühle.

The Mühle family also owned a building in the Cetate district, known to this day as the House with Flowers, due to the fact that it housed the Mühle family's shop of flowers, seeds and floral arrangements, being also the central point where they exhibited and sold their products developed in their greenhouses and nurseries from the Elisabetin district. Mühle had 17 greenhouses and a vast garden in Timișoara, which stretched from the Bega Canal to today's Nicolae Bălcescu Square.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mühle House” is part of heritage site in Timișoara, Romania. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mühle, House and part, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1866, 1868, 1878, 1909—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Mühle, House and part is the immediate research focus.
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