the hohne village history society ("arbeitskreis hohner dorfgeschichte") has researched all records on individual villages in the area and has discovered the earliest record of the place: on ascension day in 1313 "bere de hone" inherited the fief of a farm at hohne from the st. aegidien monastery in brunswick. this monastery was founded before 1115 by margravine gertrud von braunschweig of meissen, last heiress of the brunonen family.