Lauriacum

Coordinates: 48°13′0″N 14°28′30″E / 48.21667°N 14.47500°E / 48.21667; 14.47500
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48°13′0″N 14°28′30″E / 48.21667°N 14.47500°E / 48.21667; 14.47500

Map of the Danubeian Limes.
Reconstruction of the camp and adjoining oppidum.

Lauriacum was an important

Danube Limes in Austria.[1][2][3]

History

Roman era

Where only a small Roman settlement was located at a ford over the Enns, the

Ovilava (Wels) as administrative center for the Roman province of Noricum. The legionary camp was subsequently also part of the fortifications of the limes
and probably from the 3rd to the 5th century continuously occupied with Roman troops. In the north and south-west was an extensive civilian settlement, which was probably raised to the municipality in the early third century and rose to the bishop's seat of the northern Noricum in the 5th century, which was until now only historically demonstrable. Grave fields could also be found at numerous places inside and outside the settlement area.

Lauriacum on the Tabula Peutingeriana.

In the late period, it became the base for a patrol boat fleet and the production site of a state shield factory. After the abandonment of the border in Noricum and Rhaetia as a result of the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, Lauriacum once again played a historically important role in the evacuation of the Roman population by

agricultural use and soil erosion. The best preserved ancient and early medieval testimonies are the remains of their predecessors accessible in the lower church of the today's Basilica of St. Lawrence
.

Middle Ages

Although today part of the city of

St Lawrence
.

Roman Lauriacum (Lorch) was mentioned in the Vita Sancti Severini and the Lauriacensis scutaria (fabrica). Notitia Dignitatum.[4]

Basilica of St. Lawrence

Between 1960 and 1966 archaeological excavations were used to open walls of Roman predecessors (dated from 180 AD), also excavated was the first Christian church (4th–5th century) and other church buildings from the first millennium. The town's present church is Gothic and was built around 1300.

Archaeology

After completion of the excavation work in 1966 St. Laurenz quickly received new attention:

  • 1968: new survey of the town parish church
  • 1968: survey of the first titular archbishopric of Central Europe; First titular archbishop of Lauriacum was Girolamo Prigione, former nuncio in Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico.
  • 1970: Ascent to the Basilica minor by Pope Paul VI.
  • 1988: Visit by Pope John Paul II, who conducted a Wort-Gottes-Feier ("Celebration of the word of God") liturgy at the Basilica of St. Lawrence with thousands of devotees in attendance.

Diocese of Lauriacum

Lauriacum is a

Roman Catholic Church,[5] and the cathedra was centered in the district of Lorch in the city of Enns
.

The ancient

Passau
).

Known bishops

Lorcher fakes

The so-called

Diocese of Passau
as the legitimate successor to the Diocese of Lauriacum.

In the Basilica of St. Lawrence is an oversized painting (8 x 5 m) dating from 1728 which the corresponding bishops call and depict according to the Lorcher falsification.

See also

References

  1. ^ Lothar Eckhart: Die Stadtpfarrkirche und Friedhofskirche St. Laurentius von Enns-Lorch-Lauriacum in Oberösterreich. In: Forschungen in Lauriacum 11/1-3, Linz 1981
  2. ^ Roman Igl: Die Basilika St. Laurentius in Enns, OÖ. In: Beiträge zur Mittelalterarchäologie in Österreich 21, 2005, p141-152
  3. ^ Otto Winkler, St.Laurenz-Basilika zu Enns-Lorch. Kirchenführer, Hrsg.: Pfarramt St. Laurenz, Enns. Kunstverlag Hofstetter, Ried im Innkreis, 1990.
  4. ^ Lauriacensis scutaria (fabrica). Notitia Dignitatum occ. IX, 21.
  5. ^ Eintrag auf Giga-Catholic
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