Unna

Unna is a town of around 59,000 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the seat of the Unna district. The records of human settlement in what is now the metropolis of Unna can be traced lower back to the Neolithic Era. In the Middle Ages, Unna received importance as a manner station on the Hellweg. It is first recorded with the aid of call in an ecclesiastical file of 1032. Around 1200, Count Friedrich von Altena-Isenberg changed into invested with the fiefdom of Unna, among other estates, by means of the archbishop-electorate of Cologne.

Over the following couple of hundred years the metropolis become time and again fought over, and burned down several times. In the 14th century the town have become rich: a mint become established and nearby alternate blossomed. This is documented by way of the discovery of around 70 gold cash in the course of excavation works in 1952. The coins originated from various countries and are concept to have been buried round 1375.