Treva

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Location from Treva to Ptolemaic

Treva is an old name for a settlement at the confluence of the Alster into the Elbe and can therefore be seen as the forerunner of the later city of Hamburg . The place name Treva is mentioned for the first time by Ptolemy . Treva was since the bronze time until the late antiquity both node of at least two in the north-south direction extending trade routes that from the North Sea coast at eiderstedt about treva along the same and Fulda and over the burner pass leading road to Venice and along the Rhine by the Burgundian Gate as far as Massilia (Marseille) route. According to contemporary Roman reports, both routes were used for the transport of amber , which was very valuable at the time .

The name Treva (also Treoua and Trefa ) was also a term used in Irish for Hamburg . The similar name "Trevor" means "Great Settlement" in Welsh .

According to a geodetic deformation analysis of the Ptolemaic map data on Geographike Hyphegesis by the Institute for Geodesy of the Technical University of Berlin , Treva may not have been at the location of today's city of Hamburg, but near Bad Oldesloe .

literature

  • Karl Andrée: The amber. The amber land and its life. Stuttgart 1951.
  • F. Langewiesche: Germanic settlements in northwestern Germany between the Rhine and Weser according to Ptolemy's report. Supplement to the annual report of the Realprogymnasium zu Bünde on the school year 1909/10.
  • Matthias Schulz: "Google Earth in antiquity" Spiegel Online, 2010, Spiegel Online article
  • Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch and Dieter Lelgemann (eds.): Germania and the island of Thule. The decryption of Ptolemaios' Atlas der Oikumene , p. 29. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-534-23757-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ptolemy 2:11 , 27.