Chaussée Brunehaut

Chaussée Brunehaut or Chaussée Brunehault are called military roads in France , which the Romans built in Gaul , possibly using older connections.

The most important Chaussée Brunehaut was the one from Amiens via Bavay and Liberchies to Tongeren and on to Cologne (the Via Belgica ). Seven streets known as Chaussée Brunehaut go in the direction of the administrative centers of the Gallia Belgica ( Utrecht , Boulogne-sur-Mer , Cambrai , Soissons , Reims , Trier , Cologne) from Bavay.

The name was derived both from a legendary Bavo Brunus and from the Franconian queen Brunichild (Brunehilde, Brunehaut), who is said to have looked after the maintenance of these streets.

Colonne Brunehaut in Bavay

In Bavay, a pillar was erected in 1872 on the site of an older pillar from 1806, which in turn replaced much older predecessors, to commemorate the efforts of Brunichild / Brunehaut to maintain the road.

literature

• Grégoire D'Essigny, Mémoire sur la question des voies romaines, vulgairement appelées Chaussées Brunehaut, qui traversent Picardie. 1811.
• Jules Vannérus, La Reine Brunehaut dans la toponymie et dans la légende , académie royale de Belgique, Bulletins de la classe des lettres, XXIV - 1938 - 6-7, pp. 301–420, with map.

Web links

Commons : Chaussée Brunehault  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Text on the Chaussée Brunehaut (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Bouyer: Dictionnaire des Reines de France, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1992 ISBN 2-262-00789-6 , pp. 60 and 76