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unusual facts about Prüm Abbey



Notker the Stammerer

regardless of historical verisimilitude (Pepin the Hunchback, for example, is supposed to have been sent to Saint Gall as punishment for his rebellion, and – in a trope owed to Livy's tale of Tarquin and the poppies – earns a promotion to rich Prüm Abbey after advising Charlemagne through an implicit parable of hoeing thistles to execute another group of rebels).

Weidenbach, Vulkaneifel

On 17 October 1016, Weidenbach had its first documentary mention under the name Witenbuoch in a document from Emperor Heinrich II in which he confirmed to Abbot of Prüm Urold holdings in Weidenbach (Witenbuoch), Stadtfeld (Stadefelt) and Ließem (Liudesheim).


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