Hungen () is a town in the
district of Gießen, in
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...
,
Germany
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. It is situated 20 km southeast of
Gießen
Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univers ...
, and 18 km northeast of
Friedberg. Surrounding towns are
Laubach
Laubach is a town of approximately 10,000 people in the Gießen region of Hesse, Germany. Laubach is known as a ', a climatic health resort. It is situated east of Gießen. Surrounding Laubach are the towns of Hungen, Grünberg, Schotten and ...
to the north,
Nidda to the east,
Wölfersheim
Wölfersheim is a municipality in the Wetteraukreis in Hessen, Germany. It is located approximately 34 kilometers north of Frankfurt am Main.
Division of the municipality
The municipality consists of 5 districts:
* Wölfersheim
* Södel
* Melbach
...
to the south, and
Münzenberg
Münzenberg is a town in the Wetteraukreis district in Hesse, Germany. It is located 13 km north of Friedberg, and 16 km southeast of Gießen. Münzenberg Castle
Münzenberg Castle (German. ''Burg Münzenberg'') is a ruined hill castl ...
and
Lich
In fantasy fiction, a lich (; from the Old English , meaning "corpse") is a type of undead creature.
Various works of fantasy fiction, such as Clark Ashton Smith's "The Empire of the Necromancers" (1932), had used ''lich'' as a general term fo ...
to the west.
The history of Hungen dates back to 782. In 1806 it came under the sovereignty of the
Grand Duchy of Hesse
The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (german: link=no, Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918. The Grand Duchy originally formed from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 ...
.
Buildings of interest include the Hungen Castle, the Evangelical Church, parts of the medieval city wall and
Hungen station.
Looted books depository
At the end of
World War II
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American forces discovered almost 1.2 million looted books and prints at Hungen, among them the contents of the Rothschild Library at Frankfurt, which had been removed by the Nazis from Frankfurt because of Allied bombing raids.
Hungen in the media
Literature
Shmuel Spector, Geoffrey Wigoder,
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust'',
New York University Press, 2001.
Film
My Opposition: the Diaries of Friedrich Kellner
:The railroad station of Hungen can be seen in this 2007 Canadian documentary, which recounts the story of Robert Scott Kellner and his grandfather,
Friedrich Kellner, chief justice inspector of Laubach who wrote the anti-Nazi diary, "
My Opposition
''My Opposition'' (german: Mein Widerstand) is a diary secretly written by the German social democrat Friedrich Kellner (1885–1970) during World War II to describe life under Nazi Germany and to expose the propaganda and the crimes of the Nazi d ...
."
See also
*
Hungen (meteorite), for the Hungen meteorite (fallen in 1877).
References
Giessen (district)
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