Oberpallen

Oberpallen ( German ) ; Uewerpallen ( lux. ) Oberpallen ( French ) ; Beckerich municipality
Coordinates :	49 ° 44 ' N , 5 ° 50' E Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '47 " N , 5 ° 50' 30" E
Postal code :	8552
Location of Oberpallen in Luxembourg

Oberpallen ( Luxembourgish Uewerpallen ) is a village in the municipality of Beckerich in the canton of Redingen in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

location

Oberpallen is located in the far west of the Beckerich municipality, right on the Belgian-Luxembourg border in the Pall valley . This small river flows through the middle of the village, and in the center of the village the Peiltz brook flows into the Pall. The national road 12 runs through the town, neighboring towns are Levelingen in the north, Beckerich in the east, Tontelingen and Bonnert on the Belgian side .

General and history

Oberpallen is one of the larger localities in the municipality. The catholic is worth seeing. Church of St. Germanus , it belongs to the large parish of Sainte Claire Atterttal, which was created in 2017.

The place name is derived from the river Pall, which flows through the place. The addition of Ober- demarcates it from the village of Niederpallen, which lies a little downstream.

However, the time of origin of the place cannot be derived from the river name. However, the spelling Pilldorf and Palldorf for Oberpallen have been handed down from the Middle Ages . The ending -dorf suggests that the settlement emerged during the Franconian period .

Web links

Commons : Oberpallen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Dans l'antiquité, c'était toujours le cours d'eau qui passait son nom au bourg ou à la ville, tandis que depuis le Moyen Âge, c'était la localité qui donnait son nom à l'eau. Ce qui est une preuve de l'ancienneté du nom Pall. J. Nehrenhausen, 2006. Pallen et la Pall . In: A. Michels-Lenger. DT Jeunesse Niederpallen. 50e anniversaire, 1956-2006. Luxembourg, Éditions Saint-Paul, 2006, p. 141.
↑ Schaaf, Holger. The antiquities of the Merovingian period in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Luxembourg: Musée national d'histoire et d'art, 1993., 94 f.

[1] Dans l'antiquité, c'était toujours le cours d'eau qui passait son nom au bourg ou à la ville, tandis que depuis le Moyen Âge, c'était la localité qui donnait son nom à l'eau. Ce qui est une preuve de l'ancienneté du nom Pall. J. Nehrenhausen, 2006. Pallen et la Pall . In: A. Michels-Lenger. DT Jeunesse Niederpallen. 50e anniversaire, 1956-2006. Luxembourg, Éditions Saint-Paul, 2006, p. 141.

[2] Schaaf, Holger. The antiquities of the Merovingian period in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Luxembourg: Musée national d'histoire et d'art, 1993., 94 f.