Birkenfeld

Birkenfeld is a town and the district seat of the Birkenfeld district in southwest Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is also the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde. The call Birkenfeld has its beginning in an antique German dialect, Old Frankish. It method some thing as a substitute like “at the sector with the birches”. From the name's Frankish roots it could be inferred that brand new city arose on a spot wherein there was quite a significant stand of birch timber sometime about the year AD 500, and that it changed into based by way of Frankish-German farmers. To at the present time, there are a exquisite number of birch bushes within the fowl conservation place on the clay quarries.

The first attestation of the name is spelled Bikenuelt or Birkinvelt at the time while it had a documentary point out from Archbishop of Trier Egbert in 981. From this document comes understanding that Saint Leudwinus had donated to the St. Paulinus' Abbey in Trier the churches at Birkenfeld and Brombach. Archaeological finds from the Iron Age, but, undergo witness to pretty heavy settlement even within the 8^th century BC. In the 1^st century BC, Roman legions overran the location, and for 400 years, it lay under Roman rule. This is thought particularly from finds made within the metropolis's instantaneous region.