Carosgau

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Boundary stone of the Pagus Carucum , drawing after a plaster cast of the Provincial Museum in Trier (1903)

Carosgau is an early medieval district in the southern Eifel on the upper reaches of the rivers Kyll , Nims and Prüm . In documents from the 8th to 10th centuries it is documented with the Latin forms of name pagus Carouuascus , Car (r) ascus , Caroscus or Caroascus .

In research, the name was associated with an inscription FINIS PAGI CARV | CVM ("Grenz des Gaus der Carucer"), which was discovered on a stone near Neidenbach near Kyllburg on the Römerstrasse between Trier and Cologne and was first published in 1876. This inscription is the only evidence of the putative tribal or peoples name Caruces , the etymology and exact interpretation of which are uncertain.

On the question Caruces has been suggested among other things that they with at Caesar, De Bello Gallico called II, 4 Celtic Caerosi could be identical, whose name in the medieval manuscripts of De Bello Gallico variants Caeroesi , Ceroesi , Caerosi and Cerosi has and is also uncertain in its etymology.

Remarks

  1. ↑ CIL XIII, 4143
  2. ^ Theodor Bergk: Der Grenzstein des Pagus Carucum , in: Yearbooks of the Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland 57 (1876), pp. 7–41
  3. ↑ Günter Neumann: Germani cisrhenani - The statement of names , in: Heinrich Beck (Hrsg.), Germanenprobleme in present-day view , 2nd exp. Ed., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999 (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, supplementary volumes, 1), ISBN 3-11-016439-6 , pp. 107–129, p. 120, suspects that the name leads to a Celtic word for "deer" belong to, Kymrian carw , Cornish carow , Breton karo .
  4. ↑ More recently, with reservations, Martin Hannes Graf again: Alpha Aurigæ - Verbal and factual historical studies on germ. * Habraz and related problems , Diss. University of Zurich, 2006 online version ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 123 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dissertationen.unizh.ch
  5. ↑ See Neumann 1999, p. 111

literature

  • Bernd Isphording: Prüm: Studies on the history of the abbey from its foundation to the death of Emperor Lothar I (721-855). Society for Middle Rhine Church History, Mainz / Trier 2005 (= Sources and Treatises on Middle Rhine Church History, 116; ISBN 3-929135-50-7 ), chap. 1.3: "The Prümer Kalkmulde in the written tradition: The Carosgau", p. 8ff.
  • Hans Lehner: The ancient stone monuments of the Provincial Museum in Bonn . Cohen, Bonn 1908 (= publications of the Provincial Museum in Bonn, 9)