The crest shows a silver hound with red tongue on a green shield, jumping up to the right side.  The helmet is setting right.  His decoration are green-silver colors.  Out of the covers, the half hound is jumping, set right.

The jumping hound was a sign of lower jurisdiction on the Honne.  The Honne was the lower official of a count during the Franconian Empire.  In 1487, the village Hundhausen is proved for the first time by an official document as Honnhuyssne (1488 as Honnhuisen).

The oldest documented ancestor is der Halscheid zu Hurst (born about 1590).  His son, Johan Arndt, des Halscheid Sohn (born about 1620, died about 1684), lived between 1646 and 1648 at Schabernack.  He married December 4, 1645 at Rosbach/Sieg.  The married couple for the first time is called Hundthausen in 1650.

Johan's son Ties (Thies, ties uffm bonenhof, Matthias) was geometrical, presbyter in Leuscheid and lay judge at the Halsgericht at Windeck (born about 1646, burial Oct 8, 1720 at Leuscheid).

The crest-drawing was made by Hans Ahrendt, Hirschhorn, honorary president of the association of the family union in Germany, after a design of the Hundhausen family union.  The entry into the Hessische Wappenrolle is applied for by Paul Helmut Hundhausen of Friedrichsdorf.

For more information about the Hundhausen family visit www.hundhausen.org