  Supernova (SN) remnants are a well motivated candidate for the acceleration
sites of cosmic rays with energies up to the knee (10^15 eV). It has been
suggested that also young SNe (~<1 year after the explosion) may be able to
accelerate cosmic rays to even higher energies. A smoking gun for cosmic-ray
acceleration in young SNe would be the production of very-high-energy (VHE, >10
GeV) gamma-ray radiation. The H.E.S.S. imaging air Cherenkov telescope array is
an instrument sensitive to such radiation. In this contribution, the pointing
directions of the H.E.S.S. telescopes are compared to a recently published,
extragalactic SN catalogue to identify coincidental observations. The results
of the data analysis are discussed.
