Huningue (French; German:Huningen) is the name of both a canton and a commune in Alsace, France. The canton is an administrative division of France. ... The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... Capital Strasbourg Land area¹ 8,280 km² Regional President Adrien Zeller (UMP) (since 1996) Population  - Jan. ...

Part of the Haut-Rhin département, Huningue's INSEE code is 68149 and its postal code is 68330. Its 1999 population was 6,097. The mayor is M. René Moebel, whose term began in 2001 and ends in 2007. Haut-Rhin is a French département, named after the Rhine river. ... Template:France divisions levels, Junkyard Willie The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ... INSEE is the French abbreviation for the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (French: Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques). ... A postal code is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. ...

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. Loreley At 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and an average discharge of more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, the Rhine (German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Romansch: Rein, Italian: Reno) is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe. ...

History

Huningue was wrested from the Imperialists 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 August 26, 1815 and the works were shortly afterwards dismantled. This article discusses the Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein. ... Events Moses Amyrauts Traite de la predestination is published Curaçao captured by the Dutch Treaty of Polianovska First meeting of the Académie française The witchcraft affair at Loudun Jean Nicolet lands at Green Bay, Wisconsin Opening of Covent Garden Market in London English establish a settlement... Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638–September 1, 1715), reigned as King of France and of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death at the age of 77. ... Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban and later Marquis de Vauban (May 15, 1633 - March 30, 1707), commonly referred to as Vauban, was a Marshal of France and the foremost military engineer of his age, famed for both his skill to design fortifications and to break through them. ... Events January 24 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament August 7 - The brigantine Le Griffon, which was commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes. ... Events March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. ... August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

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. 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Imperial Province of Elsaß-Lothringen Alsace-Lorraine (French: Alsace-Lorraine; German: Elsass-Lothringen) was a territory disputed between the nation states of France and Germany. ... Flag of the German Empire, 1871–1918: black-white-red ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ...

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• Tschamber, Gescjiichte der Stadt und ehemaligen Festung Hiiningen (St Ludwig, 1894)
• Latruffe, Huningue et Bale devant les traits de i8i~ (Paris, 1863)