Bock (Luxembourg)

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The Bock Promontory, the Count Siegfried acquired 963

The name referred Lucilinburhuc an old weir on the present area of the city of Luxembourg.

Location

The Lucilinburhuc is located at an altitude of about 282 m on the so -called " Bock ", the Count Siegfried acquired 963.

History

It is mentioned in a document which documents the exchange between the Ardennergraf Siegfried and the monastery of St. Maximin in Trier in the year 963. From the possession of the monastery, the Count Bock receives against lands in Feulen.

In the historic deed a castellum ( fortified tower ) is mentioned ("... quod dicitur Castellum Lucilinburhuc " ), is also of a munitio ( mound ) and a trunci ( Palisade ) the speech. The Luxembourg historiography therefore went up into the 1970s on the assumption that Siegfried would have bought a more or less full-fledged defense system. However, it was neither about their appearance nor the builder and the location aware, which gave rise to speculation. The most popular version in Lucilinburhuc saw the remains of a Roman fortified tower, which served to monitor the Roman road from Reims to Trier and which was at the fish market. This would have been developed on behalf of the monastery later to serve as a military facility in the face of Norman and Hungary raids. Archaeological finds of the early 1990s, however, provided evidence that a military system of Roman origin was towards the end of the third century on the Bock promontory, which was built between the fourth and sixth centuries, and one that probably dependent von Trier, hosted garrison. The thesis that the tower at the fish market, although he had Roman style, was named after, was discarded.

Write Recent observations that the meaning of the name Lucilinburhuc go back to the word Last and a fortified promontory call. Previous authors reported as importance to small castle. In 1225 is mentioned for the first time the name burgus Lucelenburgensis or opidum et castrum Luxelenburgensis.