M () nerica

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Excerpt from the Peutinger table. M () nerica lies below Agripina (Cologne).

M () nerica , ancient spelling possibly Monerica or Munerica, was a Roman vicus in Lower Germany . The name of the village is recorded on the Tabula Peutingeriana . However, one or a maximum of two letters in the middle of the place name are not clearly legible there.

Localization

The place is shown on the map at a distance of 6 leagues from Cologne . After the Tabula Peutingeriana it was on the road to Reims . Between Cologne and Zülpich, it follows the same route as what was later called Agrippa-Strasse Cologne-Trier .

The road ( Luxemburger Straße ) and its environment are in the relevant area of the lignite mining fallen victim. In the process, a Leugen stone was found on the boundary between Hürth and Brühl, indicating the distance from the provincial capital Cologne ( Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium ) to 6 Leugen , on which the village is not mentioned. Smaller towns are usually not mentioned on such stones anyway. The stone was erected between 251 and 253 AD under the emperors Trebonianus Gallus and Volusianus . It is located in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn .

Possible remains were found in 1925 on a 500-meter-long spot while deep plowing a former forest south of the road. These are ceramics, roof tiles, floor tiles and remains of hypocaust heating systems , which the Cologne excavation specialist Peter Anton Tholen also took part in determining. Nothing has been preserved from the finds. Unfortunately, there was no systematic search here in the following years. The extent to which the settlement was connected to the trunk road cannot therefore be described in more detail. Sometimes vici were not created directly on the main road due to natural conditions such as water / well horizons and grassland.

literature

  • Michael Rathmann : The Reichsstraßen of Germania Inferior . Bonner Jahrb. 204, 2004, 1–45.
  • Wolfgang Drösser: Brühl. History - pictures - facts - connections . Brühl 2005, especially p. 16 f.
  • Raymund Gottschalk: Romans and Franks in Hürth . Verlag Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-7749-3928-8 , p. 22 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bonner Jahrbücher 135, 1930, p. 192 and CIL XVII, 559 .
  2. ^ Raymund Gottschalk: Romans and Franks in Hürth . Verlag Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2014, p. 22 ff. And 201 with illustration.
  3. ↑ Bonner Jahrbücher 131, 1926, p. 365.