Dumnissus

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dumnissus , in Celtic Dumno, was a Celtic, pre-Roman settlement that was entered into the Roman province under Caesar's command and, due to its proximity to the military road ( Ausoniusstraße ) on the Hunsrück between Trier and Bingen on the Rhine, was built into a trading and military location. The name is derived from the Celtic word dubno- / dumno "deep, high". This alludes to the high position of Kirchberg ( 437  m above sea  level ) and Denzen ( 400  m above sea  level ). The district of Denzen , which today belongs to Kirchberg, emerged from the Celtic settlement of Dumno after Roman rule in the Hunsrück dried up in AD 445 and was repopulated by the Alemanni and Franks a long time later.

On February 10, 1928, the former Dumnissus was incorporated into the western town of Kirchberg, against the resistance of the population of Denz.

swell

Dumnissus was first mentioned in 368 AD by the Roman poet and teacher Decimius Magnus Ausonius in his work Mosella . There, Dumnissus and its surroundings are described as follows: A lonely road, vast forests devoid of settlements and, as the first human settlement since Bingen, the “waterless Dumnissus, where the corridors thirst”. The Peutingerische Tafel, Tabula Peutingeriana , also shows the "Dumno" of that time and its distances very precisely. The distance from Bingen to Kirchberg is given in 16 Leugen (36 kilometers), which is very close to the length of today's 37 kilometers.

literature

  • Alfred Bauer, Hans Dunger: The Roman Kirchberg (= series of publications on the history of the city of Kirchberg 1). Kirchberg 1999, pp. 20f.
  • Willi Wagner (editor), Alfred Bauer, Peter Casper, Hans Dunger: 1000 years of Denzen: 995–1995 . City of Kirchberg, Kirchberg (Hunsrück) 1995, DNB 949001074
  • Hans-Helmut Wegner : Kirchberg . In: Heinz Cüppers (Hrsg.): The Romans in Rhineland-Palatinate . Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-933203-60-1 (= Theiss, Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0308-3 ), pp. 415-415.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bauer / Dunger: The Roman Kirchberg , p. 19.
  2. ^ Map of Kirchberg from the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration, accessed on November 21, 2015.
  3. ^ Map of Denzen from the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration, accessed on November 21, 2015.

Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '55.2 "  N , 7 ° 24' 53.9"  E