Dhronecken
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Location of Dhronecken within Bernkastel-Wittlich district
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| Coordinates: 49°43′32.88″N 06°58′55.73″E / 49.7258000°N 6.9821472°ECoordinates: 49°43′32.88″N 06°58′55.73″E / 49.7258000°N 6.9821472°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Bernkastel-Wittlich | |
| Municipal assoc. | Thalfang am Erbeskopf | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Detlef Jochem | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 1.45 km2 (0.56 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 380 m (1,250 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 122 | |
| • Density | 84/km2 (220/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 54426 | |
| Dialling codes | 06504 | |
| Vehicle registration | WIL | |
Dhronecken is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Dhronecken lies between Trier and Saarbrücken, on the Hunsrückhöhenstraße (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders), 9 km from the Autobahn A 1 towards Morbach. In the Dhronecker Mulde (hollow), the Kleine Dhron forms where two brooks meet. This river flows down a dale to the small river Dhron, which then empties into the Moselle.
Dhronecken belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Thalfang am Erbeskopf, whose seat is in the municipality of Thalfang.
Dhronecken lies in what is known to be the oldest tribal heartland of the Celts, whose lands, about 500 BC, stretched from the Middle Danube to Lorraine (Hallstatt culture), and who spread only in later centuries into what is now France. Burying grounds and, even more so, hill fortifications bear witness to those times. The Hunnenring – not far away, near Otzenhausen – is a mighty example.
With Caesar’s victory over the Celtic tribes in 51 BC, the place that is now Dhronecken became part of a Roman province called Belgica Prima. In that time, a Roman sanctum came to be near Dhronecken. Also worth noting is the widespread settlement of Sarmatians between the Dhron and the Nahe, as they were non-Germanic people from the Russian steppes. With the Germanic migration period, the Roman occupation came to an end after many Celtic uprisings and the first Germanic invasions.
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