Hunas

Hunas municipality Pommelsbrunn Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 13 ″ N , 11 ° 32 ′ 55 ″ E
Height :	464 m above sea level NN
Residents :	14 (Jul 1, 2009)
Postal code :	91224
Area code :	09154
	Hunas, entrance to town

The hamlet of Hunas is located in the district of Nürnberger Land in the state of Bavaria and is one of 22 districts of the municipality of Pommelsbrunn . The small town is located north of Hartmannshof on a plateau of the Hersbrucker Alb . The hamlet can be reached from Hartmannshof via a road that leads past the Sebald Zement company. The discovery of the cave ruins of Hunas gave the place supraregional importance.

Place name

The name Hunas is probably derived from a settlement of a Honung, Huning, Hunan or later in shortened form a Hono, Honi or Huno. Around 1300 it was called Honus or Honunges, 1391 Honings, 1529 Huneas, 1733 Hunnas, 1840 Hunas. Honung is an old German family name.

history

Already in 1300 Hunas was in Urbar the provost Hersbruck mentioned the monastery mountains. The place was owned by the Bergen monastery near Neuburg an der Donau . In the land register of the former Hersbruck Propsteigüter zu Hunas, fields and forests “Vnnterm Haunstein” were registered in 1539. At the beginning of the 16th century, the entire area came to the imperial city of Nuremberg , and in 1806 to the Kingdom of Bavaria . The hamlet of Hunas was assigned to the Hartmannshof community. This was incorporated into the municipality of Pommelsbrunn on January 1, 1977.

description

Former stable house

The place is rural. There are no shops or restaurants there. There are some buildings in the village that are listed as historical monuments .

Steinberg cave ruins

Steinberg cave ruins, last tour in October 2016

The Steinberg cave ruins were discovered in May 1956 by the Erlangen university professor Florian Heller. The Heller excavations were completed in 1964, resumed in 1983 and ended in 2016. In addition to numerous artifacts, the wisdom tooth of a Neanderthal man was also found there.

literature

Nuremberg country . Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993. ISBN 3-9800386-5-3

Web links

Commons : Hunas (Pommelsbrunn) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Web presence of the municipality of Pommelsbrunn

Individual evidence

^ Municipality of Pommelsbrunn, district of Hunas , accessed on March 9, 2016
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 719 .
^ Community of Pommelsbrunn, Hunas (accessed on October 31, 2016)

[1] Municipality of Pommelsbrunn, district of Hunas , accessed on March 9, 2016

[2] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 719 .

[3] Community of Pommelsbrunn, Hunas (accessed on October 31, 2016)