Trebeta

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Trebeta as the legendary city founder, oil painting by Claudius Markar from 1684 in the Trebeta Hall of the Simeonstift, City History Museum Simeonstift in Trier, inventory number III, 641

Trebeta was the son of the legendary Assyrian king Ninus and a Chaldean queen . His stepmother later became Queen Semiramis . This chased her stepson, so that he fled to Europe with followers. There it is said to be 1300 years before the founding of Rome, i.e. around 2050 BC. BC, founded the town of Trier on the Moselle . This legend of Trier's eponymous ("eponymous") city founder was first recorded in 1105 in the Gesta Treverorum . His tomb was believed to be in the burial mound on the Petrisberg, later called Franzensknppchen . In the late Middle Ages, other cities also traced their origins back to Trebeta (e.g. Strasbourg ).

Red house with the inscription

The Trebeta fountain today commemorates the legend and an inscription on the Red House on Trier's main market refers to it:

ANTE ROMAM TREVIRIS STETIT ANNIS MILLE TRECENTIS.
PERSTET ET ÆTERNA PACE FRVATVR. AMEN.
Trier stood a thousand and three hundred years earlier than Rome.
May it continue and enjoy eternal peace.

Today a Living History group in the Trier / Eifel area is called Trebeta . Vikings are depicted after the raids on the Prüm Abbey in 882 and 892 . Unitas Trebeta has been the name of a Catholic student association in Trier since 1977.

literature

  • Ilse Haari-Oberg: The history of the Trier founding legend from the 10th to the 15th century (= European university publications , series 3, volume 607), Bern a. a. 1994 (Diss. Bonn).
  • Ilse Haari-Oberg: The invention of the Swiss chronicle. Using the examples of the Trier founding legend and the "Germania" of Tacitus in the 16th and 17th centuries. Basel 2019.
  • Wolfgang Binsfeld : The founding legend. In: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier (ed.): Trier - Augustus city of the Treverians. 2nd edition, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-8053-0792-6 , p. 7f.