Qualburg

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St. Martinus Church

Qualburg is a district of the municipality of Bedburg-Hau in the Kleve district on the Lower Rhine . The place has 986 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016).

Archeology and history

Qualburg is identified with the Roman auxiliary fort Quadriburgium . Quadriburgium is one of those forts that Caesar Julian had, according to Ammianus Marcellinus , renewed in 359. Numerous Roman sites up to the 5th century AD are attested in the village area.

Early medieval graves from the 6th / 7th centuries were found near the church of St. Martin . Century, including a sarcophagus with a belt buckle unusual for the room. Remnants of early medieval settlements were also found near the church.

Medieval Qualburg is first mentioned around 1100. The Church of St. Martinus came to the Bedburg Monastery in 1143 and was incorporated into it in 1324. The place belonged to the Klevischen judge office Kleverhamm . In the 19th century, Qualburg came to the mayor's office of Till . The medieval choir of the church was incorporated into a new neo-Gothic building from 1888 to 1890.

In the nearby Reichswald and in the vicinity of today's town, the so-called battle in the Reichswald raged in the spring of 1945 . In this battle for the Lower Rhine, the place was badly affected.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Numbers-data-facts. In: bedburg-hau.de. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Res gestae 18,2,4 f.
  3. ^ Clive Bridger, New Finds from Qualburg. Bonner Jahrbücher 190, 1990, pp. 373-403, especially 397 f., No. 74-75.
  4. ↑ Robert Scholten , Qualburg in the Kleve district and its surroundings. Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine 54, 1892, pp. 175–197
  5. ^ Frank Siegmund , Merovingian period on the Lower Rhine. Rhenish excavations 34. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1998, p. 358 f.
  6. ^ Bridger: New finds from Qualburg. 1990, p. 373 ff.
  7. ^ Siegmund: Merovingian period on the Lower Rhine. 1998, p. 359.

Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 39 ″  N , 6 ° 10 ′ 42 ″  E