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Vianden - a region in the Middle Ages - the size of the current Luxembourg Francs

Vianden was a medieval county, about the size of present-day Luxembourg.

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At that time, that upon receipt of the letter of freedom [1308], Vianden is a medieval capital and thus to the political center. The county of Vianden covered 136 villages at that time and stood with its geographical area to Bitburg Prüm and the current Luxembourg in nothing. The walled city lay at the feet of the castle, which she was protected and controlled. 24 semi-circular towers and 5 gates markierten entlang der Ringmauer die Stadtgrenze.


Weil sie denneuzeitlichen Verkehr aufhielten, fielen sie bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts Abrisskommandos zum Opfer.


Während des 15. Jahrhunderts wohnten rund 3.000 Einwohner in Vianden. Damit war sie die dritte Stadt des Landes und verdankte ihren Wohlstand dem Talent der Künstler und dem Können der Handwerker, die in sieben Zünften zusammengeschlossen waren: Gerber, Tuchmacher, Küfer, Maurer, Schneider, Schlosser und Goldschmiede.


Letztere schufen eine beeindruckende Zahl von weltlichen und religiösen Kunstwerken, die über den ganzen Raum der Ardennen und der Eifel verbreitet sind.


Die sieben Zünfte hatten das Recht, eigene Maße für Flüssigkeiten, Getreide, Gewichte und Ellenwaren zu gebrauchen.


Ein Kuriosum am Rande...
das Viandener "Ohm" (158 l) entspricht ziemlich genau einem Barrel (159 l) und das "Fouss" der Länge eines DIN A4 Blattes.


(Auszug aus einer Festschrift zur 700 Jahrfeier der Stadt Vianden 2008) - http://www.cv.leader.lu/_dbfiles/webpage/28/Parcours10.pdf


Castle

became the symbol of misfortune and suffering that befell Vianden. For the rulers of the house of Nassau, Vianden in the 15th Century received by inheritance, was the county of Vianden only a minor rule. They do not live in the castle, leaving the county administered by bailiffs. It was the beginning of the decline of Vianden of the city, which was accelerated by the abolition of the county in 1794, the transfer of 42 villages in the former county to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna of 1815, and through the establishment of a customs border between Vianden and these villages after emerging from Luxembourg the Customs Union in 1918.

(from http://www.vianden-info.lu/ )

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Mosel / Luxembourg / Vianden - Transylvania

Yes - it may not have had. From the area of the county VIANDE N families moved towards South East Europe / Hungary / Transylvania. They settled here and there along the way - perhaps stayed together in neighborhood groups and local family groups. Several families as if from the Moselle Franconian area VIANT's namentlich bezeichnet worden sein oder haben sich einen solchen Namen gewählt (und auch in all den vielfältigen Varianten) = nämlich als die, die aus der Grafschaft VIANDEN kommen .... - sie wählten als Familiennamen den Ortsnamen, ein "Toponym" ...

Längs des Gesamtweges, den Herr Dr. Schuster aus Luxemburg nach Hermannstadt per Fahrrad zurückgelegt hat, wohnten zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten  (z.T. auch noch heute) auch immer VIANT-Familien ...
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Quote:
"The development of surnames can be found that they were often displaced by place name, so that today hardly a place of the Trier area under the Surnames miss ... "

from: Archives for Genealogical Research, No. 105 53rd Born in February 1987: Birth Trier letters from 1548 to 1796, New Series No. 346-458, following Bulletin 67 (1977) - preparations of Edward L, Eugen Strasse 27, 5500 Trier

and even a quote from the Luxembourg place names "Marnach"
Was "the first family who settled there, the place their own name (cf. Echternach as a founder of the Epternus) ?
was probably the other way around: it called the people who moved from Marnach out into the world, after their hometown, they chose a family name with a "place names, a toponym"
... . In Luxembourg, there are still many residents called Marnach, (from 85 in 1880, they have be increased to 137 in 1984), in the municipality Marnach other hand, no more "
out. http://www.marnach.info/luxemburg/01MarnachundLuxemburg/cluxsiedlungsnamen.html

August 20, 2007


In the Footsteps of the Ancestors: by bicycle from Luxembourg to Sibiu

fascinated For years, Dr. Alfred K. Schuster the topic itineraries in medieval times. So it was natural that he would do once on the path before 800-900 years "Teutones, Flandres and Walloon "struck, into a" promised land "to emigrate for a new home. This summer it was time, he decided on the bike. He wanted an arch span of Luxembourg, the Capital of Culture 2007 in Western Europe, to Sibiu, the cultural capital in the east, where he was born 70 years ago.


On 4 June, I left Luxembourg, impressed by the immense cultural program that is offered in the city and region. My journey led me to Trier and then via the Hunsrück to Mainz, where I have several miles on the well-preserved Roman road, the 'm Via Ausonia cycled. My next stop was the medieval trading cities of Wurzburg, Bamberg, Nuremberg, Amberg, Regensburg and Passau and then Vienna. The further I came to the East, the more people I met who knew about the Capital of Culture Sibiu. I followed above all the paths that once connected the medieval towns, and seldom the popular Danube cycle path.

With the bike on the cultural traces of the ancestors: Dr. Alfred K. Schuster


Hungary, I crossed from northwest to southeast, on minor roads, the Gyor and the Abbey Pannonhalma (St. Martin) to the political center of the Magyars in the High Middle Ages, Szekesfehervar connect. From there I went to the Danube, which I crossed at Dunaföldvar. I drove to the southeast, visited two national parks. I wanted to find out whether, in the 11th, 12th Century was possible to cross the flood plain and swamp forests of the Theißebene. This question must be answered in the negative about today. Probably the former settler wagon trains on the Danube to the south. Likely to Drava- and Theißmündung, and then only after the North East to get to the Mures. In 2003 newly founded monastery at Morisena Csenad, a former bishop's seat, named after the 1002 in Byzantine writings first mentioned the old convent, I was invited by the pope for lunch. He said: "Travelers are also welcome today as a thousand years", and then limited, "but not tourists who come by car.


On 14 July I reached Sibiu and drove to the Hunsrück (today Strada Centumvirilor), a greeting to convey to me by locals were given from the Hunsrück in the West. In my bag I had two greetings, one of the country team of the Saxons in Germany and one of the home community of the Germans from Sibiu, I gave Mrs. Pavel from the Democratic Forum of Germans in Transylvania, who forwarded both letters to mayor Klaus Johannis. Gratifying to me was that Bishop Dr Christoph Klein, though unannounced, received for a quick chat.


and Sibiu? The old walls throughout, this summer an unprecedented cultural noise. Every day large-scale cultural events on the Stage on the Grand Boulevard, in the marquee on the Piata Unirii and elsewhere. In the streets people from many countries with guidebooks in their hands, exercising one of the many cultural offerings, or enjoy the varied culinary offerings at one of the tables in and outside the restaurants as well as the colorful, cheerful bustle of the streets and squares of the city . A speech Babylon buzzing through the old town and all with whom I spoke were enthusiastic and looked sympathetically over the still existing sites.

With the bike on the Hunsrück in Sibiu.


that I had taken when he was seventy such a trip was not only the Sibiu newspaper a report value, but also the newspaper Monitorul de Sibiu and the Romanian Press Agency. Radio Romania gave a lengthy interview about my journey and my impressions of my hometown. 41 days I was traveling at 31 I have been sitting in the saddle and handle the route 2 475 km. The remaining ten days I have culture, nature and tank forces. On very hot days (35 to 37 degrees C), I drank up to seven gallons of water and then sweated out.


the way I had many discussions: on the street, in pubs, in monasteries and elsewhere, 2007 on the cultural capitals of Europe, but also about the emigration of German settlers from the Moselle Franconia and the Rhineland to Transylvania. At the end of my trip, I strolled a week through the streets of my childhood and youth. I was submerged in the footsteps of our ancestors in the story and realized the goal that my journey is also a journey into the future of Sibiu war.


Dr. Alfred K. Schuster, Clausthal-Zellerfeld

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