Lupinis

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Lupinis is a presumed desertification in the area of ​​the political municipality Maienfeld .

history

Maienfeld is mentioned for the first time in the 4th century on the Peutinger tablet as Magia . Around 840 the place is mentioned as Lupinis , in the 10th to 13th centuries then alternately as Lupinum or Magenze or with similar names, in 1295 for the first time as Maienfeld .

Origin of the name "Maienfeld"

The long parallel existence of two settlement names is astonishing: The place was Germanized from the north in the 16th century, the current German name certainly goes back to the oldest tangible name Magia .

The "Lupinis" settlement

The later name Lupinis, on the other hand, could be a Romanesque name with wolf beans , but not the newer German name for the old settlement. There is therefore a presumption that Lupinis is actually a different settlement. This assumption is supported by the legend of a town Wolfsnest in the area of ​​Maienfeld, about one kilometer southeast of today's settlement, which was buried by the Teilerrüfi . The name Wolfsnest could be an attempt at translation for Lupinis. Although no archaeological finds of this settlement have been made so far, it is not unlikely that a settlement will be buried by a ridge in the alpine region. If this settlement actually existed, it would have been abandoned after the burial.

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literature

  • Article Maienfeld in: Andreas Kristol et al .: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses / Lexicon of Swiss community names / Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri. Frauenfeld: Verlag Huber 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 / Lausanne: Éditions Payot, ISBN 2-601-03336-3 , pp. 562f.
  • Andrea Schorta: Objectives of place naming in Switzerland with special consideration of the map nomenclature in: Swiss Journal for Surveying 1943. Wabern: Eidgenössische Landestopographie, S. 5–23.