Gellep stratum

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Gellep stratum
City of Krefeld
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 40 ″  N , 6 ° 40 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 32 m
Area : 8.89 km²
Residents : 2830  (Dec. 31, 2008)
Population density : 318 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : August 1, 1929
Incorporated into: Krefeld-Uerdingen on the Rhine
Postal code : 47809
Area code : 02151
The Spangenhelm from Krefeld-Gellep

Gellep-Stratum is the southeastern part of Krefeld . The population is 2,830 (as of December 31, 2008). Until the incorporation into the city of Krefeld in 1929 Gellep stratum was a municipality in the Office Lank of the district Krefeld .

Archeology and history

Gelduba / Gellep

Roman folding knife - original and reconstruction.

In the southeast of today's Krefeld there are two old settlement centers. The one closer to the Rhine is Gelduba / Gellep. Here the Romans built the Gelduba fort near a Ubian village in the late 1st century AD . Imperial troops then used the fort until at least the middle of the 5th century AD. The Roman period was followed by settlement by the Franks . In 1937 Albert Steeger discovered two grave fields ( "Gellep-West" and the one to the south "Gellep-East" ) with Roman and Franconian graves. Gellep-West is the smaller and older of the two early medieval burial grounds, it is directly connected to the large fort burial ground of the Roman period and was documented until the early 8th century. The nearby, but clearly separated, burial ground Gellep-Ost did not begin until around AD 535; on its southern edge there is a delimited "prince grave field" with the grave of the Franconian prince Arpvar , who was buried with rich gold jewelry and a gold helmet . The occupancy of Gellep-Ost decreased significantly around 600 AD and ended as early as the middle of the 7th century. The associated settlement was probably located in the fort, which was still used by the Franks, as a Franconian pottery furnace there and a coin find show. Sometime after the Merovingians , this settlement in Gellep became extinct - however, today's part of the village of Gellep has existed since the Middle Ages, buildings and farms were laid out on the former fort grounds and in the immediate vicinity.

Stratum

To the west of Gelduba was another early medieval settlement, whose medieval successor is today's Stratum. Here, too, an early medieval burial ground was discovered and excavated by Albert Steeger ; around 200 of his graves are known to this day. As a special feature, there are cremation graves and burials facing north-south for the region. Parts of the associated settlement were excavated in 1979/80 in the “Puppenburg” corridor.

Reversible basin of the Krefeld Rhine harbor, which covers large parts of the Roman / Franconian ground monument .
The Krefeld Rheinhafen

The finds from Gellep and Stratum can be viewed today in the Lower Rhine Landscape Museum in the Burg Linn Museum Center .

middle Ages

In the years 904 and 910 Gellep appears in documents from the Kaiserswerth monastery . Stratum is first mentioned in 1230 as Stratheim .

From 1392 to 1794 Gellep and Stratum belonged to the Electoral Cologne Office of Linn .

Current time

In 1906 the Krefeld Rheinhafen was built and put into operation in Linn . The much later expansion of the port now leads to Gellep, where the turning basin of the port today covers large parts of the former Roman camp village ( vicus ) and the Roman / Franconian burial ground.

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Individual evidence

  1. Christoph Reichmann: The late antique fortifications of Krefeld-Gellep. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 17, 1987, 507-521.
  2. Last: Renate Pirling , Margareta Siepen: The finds from the Roman graves of Krefeld-Gellep: Catalog of the graves 6348-6361. Germanic Monuments of the Migration Period Series B Volume 20. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2006 (there references to the extensive older literature)
  3. ^ Frank Siegmund: Merovingian time on the Lower Rhine. Rhenish excavations 34. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1998, p. 299 (with further references) ISBN 3-7927-1247-4
  4. ^ Frank Siegmund: Merovingian time on the Lower Rhine. Rhenish excavations 34. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1998, pp. 180-183.
  5. Renate Pirling: A Franconian pottery furnace from Krefeld-Gellep. Germania 38, 1960, pp. 149-154.
  6. Volker Zedelius: A new Sceatta of the "Maastricht" type from the Rhineland. Excavations in the Rhineland `79/80 . Pp. 159-160.
  7. ↑ In summary with evidence: Frank Siegmund: Merovingian time on the Lower Rhine. Rhenish excavations 34. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1998, p. 429
  8. Jochen Giesler, in: Excavations in the Rhineland '79 / 80, Bonn 1981, p. 155.
  9. ^ Heinrich Kelleter: Document book of the Kaiserswerth monastery. Bonn 1904, p. 56.