Huningen
HUNINGEN, a town of Germany, in Alsace-Lorraine, situated on the left bank of the Rhine, on a branch of the Rhine-Rhone canal, and 3 m. N. of Basel by rail. Pop. (1905) 3304. The Rhine is here crossed by an iron railway bridge. The town boasts a handsome Roman Catholic church, and has manufactures of silk, watches, chemicals and cigars. Hiiningen ib an ancient place and grew up round a stronghold placed to guard the passage of the Rhine. It was wrested from the Imperialists by the duke of Lauenburg in 1634, and subsequently passed by purchase to Louis XIV. of France. It was fortified by Vauban (1670- 1681) and a bridge was built across the Rhine. The fortress capitulated to the Austrians on the 26th of August 1815 and the works were shortly afterwards dismantled. In 1871, the town passed, with Alsace-Lorraine, to the German empire.
See Tschamber, Geschichte der Stadt und ehemaligen Festung Huningen (St Ludwig, 1894) ; and Latruffe, Huningue et Bale devantlestraitesdei8i$ (Paris, 1863).
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
