Tiberiacum

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Tiberiacum was the name of a Roman settlement in the area of ​​today's district town Bergheim , which was located on the Cologne-Jülich road between today's towns of Thorr and Grouven , at the height of the 17th milestone.

The location of this fort can be clearly identified by its mention in the Antonini Itinerary . The Celto-Roman name Tiberiacum has been preserved in today's place name Zieverich .

Only very few archaeological finds can be associated with the settlement. Remnants of the structures have not been preserved.

literature

  • Reinhold Rau: Tiberiacum . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI A, 1, Stuttgart 1936, Col. 765 f.
  • Heinz Andermahr: The Roman Tiberiacum near Bergheim. Attempt to localize and determine the typology of the settlement , in: Kerpener Heimatblätter 2, 1989, p. 277 ff.
  • Raymund Gottschalk: Studies on late Roman grave finds in the southern Lower Rhine Bay , Bonn 2003, p. 132.

Remarks

  1. ^ Itinerarium Antonini 375, 9.
  2. ↑ Tiberiacum is the Latinized form of the Gallo-Roman name * TIBERIACU, which is based on the Roman personal name Tiberius , with the Celtic suffix * -āko "place", "property", like the corresponding French place names Thevray and Tiveyrat. We still recognize this personal name with the Roman ending -anum in the southern French place name Tibiran . (François de Beaurepaire, Les noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de l'Eure , Éditions Picard, Paris 1981. p. 195.)

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '12.8 "  N , 6 ° 37' 10.9"  E