Lucilinburhuc Castle
| Lucilinburhuc Castle | |
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 The Bockfelsen that Count Siegfried acquired in 963 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Augusta Romanduorum,
Opidum et Castrum Luxemburgensis |
| Creation time : | at 963 |
| Castle type : | Rock castle |
| Conservation status: | Ruins |
| Standing position : | Count |
| Place: | Luxembourg |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 36 '42.6 " N , 6 ° 8' 13.1" E |
| Height: | 282 m |
The name Lucilinburhuc refers to an early medieval fortification in what is now the city of Luxembourg .
location
The Lucilinburhuc is located at a height of around 282 m on the so-called "Bockfelsen", which Count Siegfried acquired in 963.
history
It is mentioned in a document which documents the exchange between the Ardennes count Siegfried and the St. Maximin monastery in Trier from the year 963. From the property of the monastery, the count receives the Bockfelsen against lands in Feulen.
The historical document mentions a castellum (fortified tower) (“... Castellum quod dicitur Lucilinburhuc”), and there is also talk of a munitio (earth wall) and a trunci (palisade). Luxembourgish historiography therefore assumed until the 1970s that Siegfried would have acquired a more or less fully-fledged weir system. However, it was not clear about their appearance, the builder and the location, which gave rise to speculation. The most popular version saw the remains of a Roman defense tower in Lucilinburhuc , which was used to monitor the Roman route from Reims to Trier and which was located on the fish market . This would later have been expanded on behalf of the monastery to serve as a defense system in view of the Norman and Hungarian raids. Archaeological finds from the early 1990s, however, provided evidence that towards the end of the third century a military installation of Roman origin stood on the Bockfelsen, which was expanded between the fourth and sixth centuries and housed a garrison, probably dependent on Trier.
The etymological meaning of the name Lucilinburhuc could possibly go back to the words Letze (Germanic small , or something small and synonymous for small fortress ) and Burgus (Germanic small, typically tower-like forts ), which would therefore be interpreted as a small castle . Another explanation would be "barrage" in the sense of a castle , which represents a barrier for the military protection of a settlement, a traffic route or an entire valley, see also Talsperre_ (castle) and its Swiss name Letzi with the plural Letzinen . In 1225 the name burgus Lucelenburgensis , or opidum et castrum Luxelenburgensis, is mentioned for the first time .
literature
- C. Wampach : Document and source book on the history of the old Luxembourg period . tome I No. 173. Luxembourg 1935
- Michel Margue et al .: St. Michel et le premier siècle de la ville de Luxembourg . In: Hémecht , 1987, 39, 1, pp. 5-83
- John Zimmer (Ed.): Aux Origines de la Ville de Luxembourg . Luxembourg 2002
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ lützel ( Wiktionary )