Gunzenhausen

Gunzenhausen is a city within the Weibenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is located at the river Altmuhl, 19 kilometres northwest of Weibenburg in Bayern, and 45 kilometres southwest of Nuremberg. Gunzenhausen is a nationally recognized exercise area. It is stated as being at one end of part of The Limes Germanicus, a Roman border wall, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Numerous excavations in the town of Gunzenhausen file that the vicinity become occupied and there has been a settlement in pre-ancient time.

In the year 90 the Romans expelled the Celts, occupied the inhabited areas north of the Donau River and increased into the Gunzenhausen place. In the year 241 the Alemanni invaded the vicinity and destroyed the castle. A file from the yr 823 resources the first dependable written connection with Gunzenhausen. Emperor Ludwig der Fromme conveyed the monastery "Gunzinhusir" to the High-monastery of Ellwangen.

Later the "Truhendinger" and the "Oettinger" households have become Lords of Gunzenhausen, and in 1368 Gunzenhausen got here to the House of Hohenzollern. So the city obtained the right of retaining fairs and turned into allowed to construct town walls, towers and moat, in addition to a massive church. Gunzenhausen had a huge Jewish network and a "Moorish" synagogue, constructed in 1882; the latter had its onion domes eliminated and became partially transformed to "profane makes use of" throughout the Hitler regime, and by means of 1939 the city became d Judenrein.