page_title: Burgen, Bernkastel-Wittlich
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Burgen, Bernkastel-Wittlich / History
caption_attribution_description: Schloss Veldenz, Deutschland, Rheinland-Pfalz
context_page_description: Burgen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
context_section_description: In nearby areas, remnants of human habitation have been found from the Bronze Age, as have the ruins of a flight castle, the Heidenmauer (“Heathen Wall”), which is found some 1.5 km from Burgen behind Schloss Veldenz. As early as about 500 BC there came settlement by the Treveri, a people of mixed Celtic and Germanic stock, from whom the Latin name for the city of Trier, Augusta Treverorum, is also derived. From about 50 BC until sometime about AD 500 came the Romans, who found the place where Burgen now stands to be strategically favourable: the nearby Hunsrück plateau and the important Roman road from Trier by way of Bingen to Mainz could be reached without much effort. The climb up to the Hunsrück was secured with the help of a fortified military base – in Latin a burgus – which later took the folk form Burgen.
caption: The village of Burgen was part of the former County of Veldenz. In the medieval the count resided in the nearby Veldenz Castle, some 1.5 km from Burgen.
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