Coordinates: 47°35′31″N 7°35′04″E / 47.59194°N 7.58444°E / 47.59194; 7.58444
Huningue (German: Hüningen) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of Alsace in north-eastern France.
Huningue is a suburb of the Swiss city of Basel. It also borders Germany (Weil am Rhein, a Basel suburb in Germany).
[edit] Geography
Huningue is situated on the left bank of the Rhine, and is an ancient place which grew up around a stronghold placed to guard the passage of the river.
[edit] History
A diagram of Huningue's former fortifications.
Huningue was wrested from the Holy Roman Empire by the duke of Lauenburg in 1634, and subsequently passed by purchase to Louis XIV. It was fortified by Vauban (1679-1681) and a bridge was built across the Rhine. The fortress capitulated to the Austrians on the 26 August 1815 and the works were shortly afterwards dismantled.
In 1871, the town passed, with Alsace-Lorraine, to the German Empire. Alsace-Lorraine returned to France after the First World War, was retaken by Germany in 1940, and finally returned to France once again in 1945.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Tschamber, Geschichte der Stadt und ehemaligen Festung Hüningen (St Ludwig, 1894)
- Latruffe, Huningue et Bale devant les traits de i8i~ (Paris, 1863)
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