What could "Haselünne" mean?

Question

I traced back my lineage on my dad’s side to a little town called Haselünne. I never bothered to look up what in meant until now, and now, I’m really curious.

From my research, I’m going to guess that Hase would obviously come from the town’s vicinity to the river Hase, which in turn came from the Germanic haswa, meaning grey.

But lünne? I have absolutely no clue. The town's website, contains the word luenne, probably because an umlaut would reduce site visits and/or perhaps the ue would effectively represent the ü, or because something using haselunne was already taken. Who knows, but either way, sticking luenne into Google Translate returns Lünne.

So here I am, hoping someone has a theory that would give this town the other half of its name! Grey [something], or rather, [something] of the Hase. Perhaps that Lünne is someone's name. I am not very verbose in German yet, so I am left to guessing.

Answer 1

According to the article about Haselünne on German Wikipedia name "Haselünne" means "passage across dark water", where "hase" comes from "hassa" (= "dark water") and "lünne" is derived from "lunni/lunne".

Im nahen Flusslauf wurde durch Einlegen von Rundhölzern eine Furt errichtet. Diese Rundhölzer hießen „lunni“ und sie gaben dem Ort den Namen „Lunni“, „Lunne“ und mit der Flussbezeichnung „Hassa“ = dunkles Wasser = Hase schließlich den Namen Haselünne.

The linked article says that "lunne" was the word for round wooden timber (which was used for building a passage across the river). However, another article (about village Lünne which is about 30 km away from Haselünne) states that "lunne" (altnord. hlunne = Rolle)* was a name for passage itself. But is it passage or timber - I don't think it changes much in this case.

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*Thanks to IQV for the comment.