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was not very popular at the time because of the tanneries (white and red tanners) and the associated smells. In addition to the tanners and mill owners, poor fishermen, executioners and prostitutes also lived here. Due to the poverty, many houses were built in half-timbered construction. The origin goes back to the 16th century.
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buildings which, together with the narrow lanes and footbridges that connect them, mostly date from the 16th and 17th centuries. The sloping roofs of many of the buildings include open lofts where hides were once dried. Three of the four channels flowing through the quarter run over weirs that once
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The "MĂĽhlenplan" still corresponds to the Rue des
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The Petite France district did not emerge as an urban entity until the 20th century. Originally, the term "Little France" was reserved for the dam that separates the SpitzmĂĽhlen Canal from the shipping canal. Up until the 19th century, the three units that make up the district today were called in
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of the city that forms the historic center. The district is bounded to the north by the Quai de la Bruche (Brischstade), the Rue du Bain-aux-Plantes, the Place
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splits up into a number of channels that cascade through an area that was, in the Middle Ages, home to the city's
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