page_title: Thüngen
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Thüngen / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ansicht des Ortes Thüngen (vom Weinberg)
context_page_description: Thüngen is a market community in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft of Zellingen.
context_section_description: On 19 April 788, Thüngen had its first documentary mention. In the Codex Eberhardi, it says:
  ... Manto comes et frater eius Megingoz tradiderunt sancto Bonifacio bona sua in his locis: Isinhusen, Wanchei, Heselere, Tungede, Binizfelt, Hoholtesheim, Steti, Bucheled ...
  The placename Thüngen comes from the word Thing (also seen in Old English þing in the same sense, namely “assembly”). A þing (pronounced the same way as the Modern English thing) or a Ding (Modern High German) was the name for Volksversammlungen (roughly, “folkmoots”) and assizes held under old Germanic law. Thüngen's origins therefore point to a place where such gatherings were held. This explanation for the community's name's origin is disputed, however, with alternate explanations positing a Celtic or Roman source for older forms of the name such as Thungidi or Tungede.
  Until about 1200, the community's lords were the Counts of Henneberg. After they died out, the lordship was taken over by a knightly noble family who later named themselves “von Thüngen” after the place. Thüngen's history is tightly bound with this noble family.
  In 1366, a Thüngen townsman was named in a document for the first time, and in 1419 the first village order was decreed. In 1465, Thüngen was raised to town, which allowed its fortification with walls and towers as well as a town constitution. Guilds could be introduced and weekly markets held. From 1551, with lordly approval, the Reformation was definitively introduced, which led to considerable contention between the denominations over the next few centuries, especially in the wake of the Thirty Years' War, which left part of the village in the hands of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (administered by the Juliusspital, a hospital foundation that still exists now). A rural Jewish community arose in the 16th century.
  On 28 June 1814, in connection with the Napoleonic Wars, Thüngen was awarded to the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1825, the guilds had to be shut down. Officially, town rights were never revoked. In 1846, the Schlossbrauerei Thüngen (brewery), still in business today, was founded by Wilhelm, Wolfgang and Hanskarl von Thüngen. Once the Werntalbahn (railway) was finished in 1879, the first train ran through Thüngen on 16 April.
  In the presence of Prince Ludwig III of Bavaria, on 18 May 1892, the Ludwigslinde was planted at the Planplatz.
  In 1923, the association Bayern und Reich (“Bavaria and Empire”) staged an event in Thüngen at which owing to arguments with inhabitants, a worker was killed. Of the 152 Jewish inhabitants still in the community in 1933, many had emigrated by 1940. Nevertheless, at least 50 Thüngen inhabitants were deported and murdered.
  Since 1978, the market communities of Thüngen and Zellingen, and the communities of Himmelstadt and Retzstadt have formed the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (Administrative Community) of Zellingen.
caption: View from the north (Weinberg)
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