Map - Kenn, Germany (Kenn)

Kenn is a municipality of the Verbandsgemeinde Schweich on the banks of the Moselle in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

It can be assumed that the Celts began to live around today's Kenn as early as 250 BC. Finds in the vicinity prove their existence. It is unclear whether it was just a matter of individual small groups that were perhaps only passing through or whether larger tribes were already settled there. It is certain, however, that a local settlement of Roman origin emerged on the terrain of today's Kenn around 2,000 years ago.

There are several finds from the Iron Age as well as from the time of the Roman Empire. A copy of a statue of a Roman Naiad can be seen on the Roman Square in Kenn, whereas the well-preserved original is in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier these days. The town center has grown from the middle of the 2nd century on an area that encloses a former Roman manor. In the course of construction work in 1987, three cellars laid out in a row were uncovered on an area of approx. 23 m x 4.40 m, of which the southern room was restored and can now be visited. The farmhouse, which was built in 1764 and now houses Kenn's local museum, was also built on this 'Villa Urbana', which is the name of the estate.

The first documented mentioning is dated to the year 893 AD. The name 'Cannis' is mentioned there, which can be derived from Latin and means something like 'reed bank'. The spelling Kenn has been used since the 18th century.

Kenn was strongly influenced by the Maximiner era. Although a documented mentioning of 633 AD turned out to be a forgery, there is still reason to assume that a donation of extensive seigneuries with fields, forests and villages (including Cannis) to St. Maximin's Abbey can be traced back to the Merovingian king Dagobert I. As early as 1797, in the Treaty of Campo Formio the entire left bank of the Rhine, including the local region around Kenn, was conquered during the War of the First Coalition and annexed by France. Under French territorial rule, Kenn was assigned to the Mairie Longuich in the Canton of Schweich. In 1802, during the period of Secularisation, the Benedictine Abbey of St. Maximin was abolished.

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