Landoudioer

The Landoudioer (Lander) (Latin: Landoudioi ) were a Germanic tribe that settled on the Lahn in what is now Central Hesse from around the 1st century . He is mentioned for the first time in the geography of the Greek Strabo under the name Landi .

"And also Libes , a priest of the Chatti, went in triumphal procession, as well as other prisoners of the defeated tribes - the Caulcer, the Campanians, the Brukterer, the Usipeter, the Cherusker, the Chattu, the Chattuarier, the Lander, the Tubanten."

A century later, around 150, Ptolemy calls the Landoudio people in his Geographike Hyphegesis .

Even in the 4th century, the tribal designation was mentioned in the different forms Langiones , Lanciones , Longiones and Logiones .

In a letter from Pope Gregory III. to Boniface from the year 738 there are reports of several small tribes in the field of the Chatti . In addition to the populus hessiorum (on the lower Fulda ), the Nistresi (on the Korbach plateau) and the Wedrecii (possibly in the Wetschafttal ), the Lognai in the middle and upper Lahn valley were also mentioned . Probably the Landoudioer belonged to the allies of Arminius in the years 9 to 16 during the Germanic-Roman conflicts. It is unclear how the Landoudioer were related to the neighboring chats, perhaps they were their clients or even formed a sub-tribe. In addition, it has not yet been possible to clarify what role the Landoudioer played in the destruction of the Dünsberg oppidum in the Augustan era .

Archaeological excavation

Parts of the settlement area developed near Niederweimar from different times can possibly be assigned to the Landoudioern. During excavations under thick layers of alluvial clay on the Lahn, clear indications were found, which prove an uninterrupted settlement from the Neolithic to the La Tène period up to the early Roman imperial period . Among other things, the ceramic shows a style in which Celtic influences were combined with the Germanic style of form and decoration that was influenced in the East .

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• Ptolemy : Geographike Hyphegesis
• Strabon : geography

literature

• Wolfgang Jungandreas , Gerhard Mildenberger , Günter Neumann , Harald von Petrikovits :  Chatting. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 4, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1981, ISBN 3-11-006513-4 , pp. 377-391.
• Ralf G. Jahn: The Roman-Germanic War (9–16 AD) . Dissertation, Bonn 2001.
• Wilhelm Niemeyer: The Pagus of the early Middle Ages in Hessen . Marburg 1968.

supporting documents

1. ^ Wilhelm Niemeyer: The Pagus of the early Middle Ages in Hessen. Marburg, 1968. p. 169.
2. ^ Strabo: Geography 7, 1, 292.
3. ^ Wilhelm Niemeyer: The Pagus of the early Middle Ages in Hessen. Marburg, 1968. p. 169.
4. ↑ Real Lexicon of Germanic Antiquity. Volume 14. De Gruyter, 1999. p. 503 ff.
5. ^ Ralf Günter Jahn: The Roman-Germanic War (9-16 AD). Dissertation, Bonn 2001, p. 117 f.