Coronation Street

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Today's coronation street near Wachtberg

The coronation road ran from Frankfurt am Main to Aachen and was laid out during the Carolingian era.

Researchers also refer to the street as Aachen-Frankfurter Heerstraße (AFH).

The importance of this street from the 9th century was initially in the political field. The Carolingians and their Franconian successors used them on their numerous trips to Aachen, primarily to hunt and bathe there or to obtain the royal crown there ( see also imperial crown ). It was also used as a trade route , Heerstrasse or Poststrasse . It crossed many other important road connections such as B. the trunk road from Cologne to Reims .

In the 15th century the street was then called Aicher Straße (Aachener Straße) . After that it was given other names, such as B. Kaiserstraße, Heerstraße, Rheinstraße or Hohe Straße.

In the Middle Ages , 36 castles were built on the road between Sinzig and Aachen. B. the

In the course of the emerging industrialization, the street lost more and more of its importance and is now hardly recognizable in the localities.

The 252 kilometer road running from Frankfurt via

Mediography

  • Josef Cloot: The Aachen-Frankfurter Herrstrasse. Its course through the Düren district and its significance . In: Heimat-Blätter of the Dürener Zeitung. 1931, ZDB -ID 1124612-1 , pp. 196-198.
  • The "A 61" for emperors and kings. "Aachen-Frankfurter Heerstraße" is to be under monument protection - near Bad Bodendorf and in the county is the Middle Ages and modern times. In: Hermann Aubin , Edith Ennen et al. (Ed.): Contributions to economic and city history. Festschrift for Hektor Ammann. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1965, pp. 270-285, esp. 274-276.
  • Andreas Schmickler: The Aachen-Frankfurter Heerstrasse between Sinzig and Eckendorf. In: Homeland yearbook for the Ahrweiler district. 2000, p. 62.
  • Andres Schmickler / Ernst Picard: Hike the AFH - along the Aachen-Frankfurter Heerstraße between Sinzig and Rheinbach. Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 2019. ISBN 978-3-00-062268-7
  • Franz Schorn: The old Heerstrasse . In: home calendar / Euskirchen district administration. 1960, ZDB -ID 969204-6 , pp. 30-37.
  • Franz Schorn: About old villages and the coronation road. In: home calendar / Euskirchen district administration. 1968, pp. 71-77.
  • Hans Welters: Fortified villages on the northeastern edge of the Eifel. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter. (RhVjbl). 15/16, 1950/51, pp. 267-292.
  • Hans Welters: The moated castle in the settlement area of ​​the upper Erft landscape. Bonn 1940 ( contributions to regional studies of the Rhineland. 3rd series, issue 4, ZDB -ID 502859-0 ).
  • Albert Zepp: Formerly fortified villages in the lower Ahr area. In: Yearbook of the Ahrweiler district. 1939, pp. 76-80.

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