Munzach
Munzach ( Monzacha in the Middle Ages ) is now a district and used to be a village in the area of today's city of Liestal ( Canton Basel-Landschaft , Switzerland ). The place is best known for the remains of the Roman villa rustica Munzach .
The location is at the Munzach spring (also Dietrich spring) of a brook and is likely to have been sparsely populated as early as Celtic times. The village developed in the 3rd / 4th. Century AD. The St. Lorenz Church, built directly at the Munzach spring, was well known and could have been from the early Middle Ages. The village was abandoned as early as the 13th century, and the population sought shelter and accommodation in the town of Liestal , just under two kilometers away , which had only recently received town charter. However, the St. Lawrence Church remained until the 18th century; it was only canceled in 1765. Until modern times, the Munzach spring was a popular place of pilgrimage after an alleged apparition of Our Lady .
In 1949 the Munzach spring was redesigned. One came across not only the remains of the St. Lorenz Church, but surprisingly also Roman foundations. In the years that followed, the primary school teacher Theodor Strübin (1908–1988) and his school classes exposed the foundations of one of the largest Roman country houses north of the Alps , the Villa Munzach. After this significant find, it is assumed that Munzach developed on the remains of the Roman settlement; the place name for the area is likely to come from the Roman name Montiacum .
Today hardly anything reminds of the former village apart from the name. The area is a residential area of Liestal. The Hasenbühl Cantonal Psychiatric Clinic is also located there. The Munzach cemetery has been preserved on a small hill next to the railway line.
literature
- Liestal, Eine neue Heimatkunde, Liestal 2004, p. 436 mwH