Oetrange

Oetringen ( Lux: pus, French: Oetrange ) is a medium sized village in the Luxembourg region Gutland. Administratively, it belongs to the municipality in the canton of Luxembourg Contern. The village is located about 13 km east of the city of Luxembourg and has 790 inhabitants (as of April 2007).

In Oetringen is the church of the parish Oetringen - Schrassig and a train station with signal box on the railway line Luxembourg - water cheap. The station must have played a central regional role in earlier times because Oetringen appears between Brussels, Luxembourg City, Trier and Cologne, already old Ferrari cards and even older card material.

Location

The village lies in the valley of the Syr between the neighboring places Schrassig in the north and in the south Moutfort. Other neighboring villages are Canach, Greiveldange, Bous, Ersange and sand hamlet. The National Highway 2 between Remich and the city of Luxembourg is just a few kilometers south past the place.

History

Traces of settlement in the caves and among the rock shelters at the right and left banks of the creek near the Ötringermühle suggest a settlement in prehistoric times. This assumption supportive Nic Thill, a former teacher and amateur archaeologist Oetringer been uncovered in the 1930s in the vicinity significant finds. So he found parts of prehistoric human skeletons and primitive tools. First, in a quarry under the Court's " Kackert " and later known as the place " Huelen OCE ", on the southwestern slope of the " Heed ". The bones found by him are coming from people who have lived here about 15,000 years ago. Oetringen is therefore one of the oldest settlements in Luxembourg.

Roman traces

Roman grave sites were found in the " angle hole" and the remains of a Roman villa with water pipe in " Willemsloch ". The most important Roman settlement was on the " Hacca ", near the present-day " Hakenhaff ". Here is a powerful Roman Villa was due to the significant military and trade route that led from Metz Dalheim, Medingen, Moutfort, Oetringen to Trier. A smaller way, a so-called " diverticulum " (Latin Byway ) that connected the streets Reims and Metz, Trier -Trier each other, culminating in the " Hacca " in the main street. The Roman villa at the " Hacca " was probably of monitoring, manipulating the people who passed by Diverticulums.

Franconian tracks

The name Oetringen indicates a Frankish origin. Place-names ending in- ingen usually enough back in the vorkarolingische settlement period. Probably towards the end of the Great Migration of Franconian and Alemannic families settled in Oetringen. A witness to the settlement, the Frankish graves that were uncovered during the construction of the road from Oetringen after Canach at the end of the 19th century. The immigrant in Late Antiquity Franks and Alemanni destroyed the Roman villas, before they settled in their vicinity. The Romans had previously avoided the swampy terrain on the banks of the Syr and prefer colonized the hills above the valley, so it was the new conquerors, who moved to the valley to build their settlement there. The village in its present form was therefore only in the Frankish period, as the Syr has also started to straighten out.

Documentary first mention

The first written mention of the village is to provide evidence for the year 1128: Around the year 983 there was in the diocese of Trier a large dry season. The inhabitants affected vowed to make a pilgrimage every year to Trier, if their prayers would be answered after rain. Since the requested rain arrived, ordered the then Archbishop of Trier Egbert of Trier in a charter of 983 the so-called spell procession to Trier, which was held every year in the wake on Wednesday of the third week after Easter.

Later the more remote places of the diocese was granted to perform the pilgrimage instead to the Abbey of Notre-Dame in Clausen. The abbot had received Folmar does according to the laying of the pilgrimage to Luxembourg from Trier Archbishop Bruno. In a document of 1128 Folmar did confirm this privilege conceded by Pope Honorius II again. There were 26 parishes, rather than to Trier, now closer to the abbey pilgrimage to Clausen and one of the designated towns was Otheriga, so Oetringen.

Development of the village

After the barbarian invasions, some conquerors settled in Syrtal. The resulting land acquisition during this time the village was at first a very small structure, which hardly deserved the name of " village " has mostly passed our present-day villages at that time only a few yards (often only one ). Also Oetringen likely to have existed in the 6th century, only two or three yards, with perhaps a maximum of 20 residents. In Oetringen the population rose sharply until the end of the 1st millennium. The number of farms was now increased and Oetringen had grown into a village. How many " hooves " ( farms ) it was one of those days, we do not know, there are no written references from Oetringen from the early Middle Ages. A church had the there very early, certainly in 983, probably in the 7th or 8th century.

Church foundations

It was not always out of piety that a landowner could build a church on his land. A church establishment was in fact one of the most beneficial investments of the early Middle Ages. The church belonged to the property of the landlord and is still referred to accordingly as own church. Who the landlords in Oetringen were in the early Middle Ages, and which had built the first church, we do not know. But the manorial court, where the administration of the village was conducted at that time was probably already at the " suppression Swiss ", near the church. This manor must have been devastated in 1636 by the Croats, because then he is mentioned more in no document.

Swell

  • W. Abel, history of German agriculture, Stuttgart 1978
  • O. Barst, everyday life in the Middle Ages, Frankfurt 1983
  • F. Lutge, History of the German agrarian from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, Stuttgart 1963
  • E. (RDC) Theisen, debris rings and the history of the upper Syrtals, Luxembourg 1954
  • R. Schiel, 10 Joër pus Dëschtennis, Oetringen 1984
  • Municipal government de Contern
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