Duren

Duren is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between Aachen and Cologne at the river Rur. Celts inhabited the vicinity now referred to as Duren earlier than the Roman invasion. The Celts known as their small agreement, Durum. After the Celts, Germanic tribes settled this region. They had been conquered by means of the Romans below Julius Caesar. Durum became a deliver location for the swiftly growing Roman metropolis of Cologne . Furthermore, a few essential Roman roads skirt Durum.

The Romans remained within the location for approximately 400 years. The call "villa duria" occurred the first time inside the Frankish Annals in the 12 months 747. After the fall of the Roman Empire inside the fifth century, the Franks settled in Duren. The Frankish king Pippin der Kleine often visited Duren inside the 8th century and held a few essential conventions there. Pippin was the daddy of the famous emperor Charlemagne. The Franks fabricated from Durum a royal palace, from which the name Palatine is derived. Charlemagne sojourned a few times there.