Legend of Lutrina

The legend of Lutrina is a legend about the presumed origin of the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Kaiserslautern . This legend tells of an Assyrian pious Christian named Lutrina who fled from the Roman persecution of Christians in Trier to an area on the edge of the Palatinate Forest . Allegedly Lutrina should have been a descendant of Trebeta , the legendary founder of Trier. In the forest, she and her servants found a hermit's farm , where they were well catered for. In the vicinity of this Einsiedlerhof she founded the Lutrea residential area, which later became Kaiserslautern.

The name and person of the Lutrina go back to the 15th or 16th century, according to other sources to the 14th century. Back then, Roman cities like Cologne and Mainz developed patron saints with a legendary past for their cities from their Latin names. The legend about Lutrina probably originated at this time. Today the symbol figure for Kaiserslautern plays an important role, especially in carnival .

Lutrinastraße on the edge of the city center is named after Lutrina. In the street there is also a pharmacy, a clinic and a parking garage called “Lutrina”. There is also a Lutrina publishing house in Kaiserslautern.

literature

Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt of a complete geographical-historical description of the electoral prince. Palatinate on the Rhine by Johann Goswin Widder. Volume 4. Frankfurt / Leipzig 1788, OCLC 458996890 , p. 185 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Legends from Kaiserslautern on the website of the city of Kaiserslautern
Legends from Kaiserslautern. In: lautringer.de. Retrieved September 28, 2017 .
Born out of superstition and the inexplicable. In: gerd-steigner.jimdo.com. Retrieved September 29, 2017 .

Individual evidence

↑ marco.creutz: Lutrina - Carnival Association 1838 e. V. Kaiserslautern. (No longer available online.) In: kvk-1838.de. January 1, 2000, archived from the original on September 29, 2017 ; accessed on September 29, 2017 .
↑ Jakob Beyerlin: Forms of epigonal utilization of humanistic writings and their audience: The Chronicles of Lies (PDF file)
^ Palatinate Museum: Monthly magazine d. Historical Association of the Palatinate and the Association of the Historical Museum of the Palatinate. In: digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de. September 2, 1904. Retrieved September 29, 2017 .

[kanreval-1] rco.creutz: Lutrina - Carnival Association 1838 e. V. Kaiserslautern. (No longer available online.) In: kvk-1838.de. January 1, 2000, archived from the original on September 29, 2017 ; accessed on September 29, 2017 .

[2] Jakob Beyerlin: Forms of epigonal utilization of humanistic writings and their audience: The Chronicles of Lies (PDF file)

[uni-heid-050123-3] Palatinate Museum: Monthly magazine d. Historical Association of the Palatinate and the Association of the Historical Museum of the Palatinate. In: digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de. September 2, 1904. Retrieved September 29, 2017 .