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Gunzenhausen (; ) is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Altmühl, northwest of Weißenburg in Bayern, and southwest of Nuremberg. Gunzenhausen is a nationally recognized recreation area. It is noted as being at one end of part of The Limes Germanicus, a Roman border wall, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Emperor Ludwig der Fromme conveyed the monastery "Gunzinhusir" to the Ellwangen Abbey of Ellwangen. Later the "Truhendinger" and the "Oettinger" families became Lords of Gunzenhausen, and in 1368 Gunzenhausen came to the House of Hohenzollern. So the city received the right of holding fairs and was allowed to build city walls, towers and moat, as well as a large church. Gunzenhausen had a big Jewish community and a "Moorish" synagogue, built in 1882; the latter had its removed and was partially converted to "profane uses" during the Hitler regime, and by 1939 the town was declared Judenrein (free of Jews). "The Synagogue of Gunzenhausen 1882 - 1938" Jüdisches Leben En Gunzenhausen website
In the 1970s eighteen municipalities were combined resulting in the city growing to about 17,000 inhabitants.
Gunzenhausen is mentioned in W. G. Sebald's collection of literary stories entitled The Emigrants (1992).W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants; transl. Michael Huse. New York: The New Directions, 1996, 50‒54.
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