Gunzburg

Gunzburg is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is a Grobe Kreisstadt and the capital of the Swabian district Gunzburg. This district turned into constituted in 1972 through combining the metropolis of Gunzburg – which had not formerly been assigned to a Kreis with the district of Gunzburg and the district of Krumbach. Gunzburg lies wherein the river Gunz enters the Danube, and has a populace of about 20,350. Gunzburg changed into based in approximately 70 BC by way of the Romans to shield the borders of their land alongside the Danube; it was called Castellum Guntia, Gontia or Contia. The name comes from that of the Celtic goddess Gontia.

It consisted of a citadel, later changed via at least a different at the same website online, a reasonably massive civilian agreement and maximum in all likelihood an critical bridge over the Danube. After the Romans left in the 5^th century, the Alamanni tribe settled there. In around 700 the close by citadel of Ricinis turned into cited by way of the Cartographer of Ravenna as one of the five most vital castles of Alemannia. In 1065 first documentary evidence seems of the city itself as Gunceburch. In 1301 the city have become part of the Habsburg house and was evolved into the centre of the Margraviate of Burgau; for a time it was even the capital of all Further Austria.