Huningue, Alsace, France
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N 47° 35.639 E 007° 34.770
32T E 393209 N 5272152
The town hall of Huningue, France.
Waymark Code: WMBB0G
Location: Grand-Est, France
Date Posted: 04/28/2011
Views: 9
Huningue ("Hüningen" in German that is also spoken here) is a municipality in the department Haut-Rhin of the French region Alsace.
It is a suburb of Basel in Switzerland and also borders Weil am Rhein in Germany.
Huningue was first mentioned in 826. In the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 it became French. Around 1680 a fort was built by Vauban, a part of the population was resettled to the newly founded neighboring towns of Saint-Louis and Village-Neuf (that is the reason why these towns have French names while the rest of the area has German town names).
The fort was under siege in 1796, 1814 and 1815. In 1815 General Barbanègre defended the fort with 500 soldiers against 20,000 Austrians for two months even after Napoleon was defeated; the town was completely destroyed after this.
In 1871 it became German until 1918 when it went back to France (as the whole region Alsace).
In World War II the town was evacuated in 1939 and occupied by Germans until 1944, 60% of the town was destroyed.
Today the town has about 6,500 inhabitants. There are many subsidiaries of chemical and pharmaceutical companies.
Name: Hôtel de Ville
Address:
2 rue de Saint-Louis
Huningue, Haut-Rhin France
68333
Web Site for City/Town/Municipality: [Web Link]
Date of Construction: Not listed
Architect: Not listed
Memorials/Commemorations/Dedications: Not listed
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