HUNINGEN  , a

town of Germany, in Alsace-Lorraine, situated on the left bank of the Rhine, on a branch of the Rhine-Rhone canal, and 3 M . N. of Basel by rail . Pop . (19o5) 3304• The Rhine is here crossed by an iron railway bridge . The town boasts a handsome Roman Catholic church, and has manufactures of silk, watches, chemicals and cigars . Huningen is an ancient place and grew up round a stronghold placed to guard the passage of the Rhine . It was wrested from the Imperialists by the duke of Lauenburg in 1634, and subsequently passed by purchase to Louis XIV. of France . It was fortified by Vauban (1679–1681) and a bridge was built across the Rhine . The fortress capitulated to the Austrians on the 26th of August 1815 and the works were shortly afterwards dismantled . In 1871, the town passed, with Alsace-Lorraine, to the German empire . See Tschamber, Geschichte der Stadt and ehemaligen Festung Huningen (St Ludwig, 1894) ; and Latruffe, Huningue et Bale devant les traites de 1815 (Paris, 1863) .