Hünenburg
Hünenburg , Hunneburg , Hunnenburg , Hunburg , Hunnenring , Hünenschanze or Hunnenschanze are popular names for prehistoric and early historical fortifications, mostly ramparts or refuges . However, the name is not a reference to the Huns . When in the late Middle Ages the real story was forgotten and given the stone masses of the fortifications, it was assumed that giant would have needed to build them.
“In Schaumburg, legends of giants are often linked to outstanding round hills; Everyone here knows what a giant is, also that the giant castles and Hünenbrinke were created when a giant poured the sand out of his shoes. "
- Karl Lyncker : 1854
Examples of plants and buildings
- Hünenburg (Bad Pyrmont) near Bad Pyrmont
- Hünenburg (Bielefeld) in the Teutoburg Forest
- Hünenburg (Bomlitz) in Borg , Walsrode , Lüneburg Heath
- Hünenburg (Dransfeld) in the district of Göttingen
- Hünenburg (Emsbüren) in Emsbüren
- Hünenburg (Flarchheim) in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia
- Hünenburg (Gellinghausen) in Etteln
- Hünenburg (Hahnenberg) near Brenken
- Hünenburg (Hemeln) near Hemeln
- Hünenburg (Hohenrode) near Hohenrode (district of Rinteln)
- Hünenburg (Barbruch) near Boke (district of Delbrück)
- Hünenburg (Meschede) near Meschede
- Hünenburg (Oeventrop) near Oeventrop (district of Arnsberg)
- Hünenburg (Ohle) in Plettenberg
- Hünenburg (Rinteln) near Rinteln
- Hünenburg (Stadtlohn) in the Bockwinkel near Stadtlohn
- Hünenburg (Steinbergen) near Rinteln
- Hünenburg (Stöttinghausen) in Stöttinghausen (district of Twistringen)
- Hünenburg (Vlotho) on the Paterberg near Vlotho
- Hünenburg (Watenstedt) , ring-shaped ramparts in Watenstedt (district of Gevensleben)
Facilities and buildings with similar names
- Hunberg (Rhön) , lost castle in the Rhön, Bavaria
- Hunburg (Betziesdorf) , lost castle in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district, Hesse
- Hunburg (Burgholz) , castle ruins in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district, Hesse
- Hunburg (Seulberg) , villa rustica in Friedrichsdorf- Seulberg
- Hüneburg (Alsace) , castle near Neuwiller-lès-Saverne, Alsace, France
- Hunneburg (Butzbach) , cohort fort in Butzbach
- Hunnenburg (Kuchen) , ring wall at Kuchen
- Hunnenring (Otzenhausen) , ring wall in Otzenhausen (district of Nonnweiler)
- Hunneschans , ring wall system near Uddel (district of Apeldoorn) in the Netherlands
- Heuneburg , prehistoric hilltop settlement on the upper reaches of the Danube
- Hünerburg , early medieval Franconian ramparts on the Hünerberg near Kronberg
- Heunischenburg , stone fortifications from the late Urnfield period near the town of Kronach
Others
- Pseudonym of Friedrich Spieser , Alsatian autonomist
- Hünenburg-Verlag, publishing project of the aforementioned, 1940–1944 in Strasbourg, 1952–1957 in Stuttgart, until 1972 in Burg Stettenfels
- Protected part of the landscape orchard at the Hünenburg
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