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25-537: The municipality lies on the river Kyll in the Vulkaneifel , a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth. Pelm's neighbours are Gerolstein , Rockeskyll , Berlingen , Dohm-Lammersdorf and Hohenfels-Essingen . Pelm is notable for its connection with ancient history. Unearthed to

50-399: A fess wavy abased argent above which a wall flanked by two towers all embattled Or, gate and windows sable, and argent a fess wavy abased conjoined as one to the other azure issuant from which a processional cross gules. The 1988 Vulkaneifel Yearbook shows different arms for Pelm with the tower-flanked gatehouse as the only charge , issuant from base. The field tinctures was different, too,

75-569: A tributary of the Moselle : ....renowned is Celbis for glorious fish, and that other, as he turns his mill-stones in furious revolutions and drives the shrieking saws through smooth blocks of marble, hears from either bank a ceaseless din... The excerpt sheds new light on the development of Roman technology in using water power for different applications. It is one of the rare references in Roman literature to water mills used to cut stone, but that

100-689: A woman named Kelly, is one of the central characters in the fantasy/crime novel "October Man", written by the author Ben Aaronovitch , in the book series Rivers of London . This article related to a river in North Rhine-Westphalia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in Rhineland-Palatinate is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ausonius Decimius Magnus Ausonius ( / ɔː ˈ s oʊ n i ə s / ; c.  310  – c.  395 )

125-429: Is 42 m, was built of limestone . Inside is a Gallo-Roman temple with a cella and a passageway in which a limestone tablet was found as early as 1833 inscribed with a dedication to the goddess Caiva. The tablet mentions that a man named Marcus Victorius Polentius granted an endowment of 100,000 sestertii for the temple to Caiva to be built. This inscription has been dated to AD 124. There were two other temples on

150-523: Is a 128-kilometre-long (80 mi) river in western Germany ( North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate ), left tributary of the Moselle . It rises in the Eifel mountains, near the border with Belgium and flows generally south through the towns Stadtkyll , Gerolstein , Kyllburg and east of Bitburg . It flows into the Moselle in Ehrang, a suburb of Trier . The river Kyll, personified as

175-636: Is a logical consequence of the application of water power to mechanical sawing of stone and presumably wood also. Earlier references to the widespread use of mills occur in Vitruvius in his De Architectura of circa 25 BC, and the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder published in 77 AD. Such applications of mills would multiply after the fall of the empire through the Middle Ages into

200-630: Is easy and fluent, and his Mosella is appreciated for its evocation of the life and the country along the River Moselle , but he is considered derivative and unoriginal. Edward Gibbon pronounced in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that "the poetical fame of Ausonius condemns the taste of his age". However, Ausonius's works have several points of interest: Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum. Gather, girl, roses while

225-666: Is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results: Pelm's mayor is Leo Meeth. The German blazon reads: Gespalten von Grün und Silber, über einem von Silber und Blau gespaltenen Wellenbalken zwei goldene Zinnentürme, eine goldene Zinnenmauer flankierend, Tor und Fenster betagleuchtet, hinten ein rotes Vortragkreuz. The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per pale vert

250-537: The Alemanni and received as part of his booty a slave girl, Bissula (to whom he addressed a poem), and his father, though nearly ninety years old, was given the rank of prefect of Illyricum. In 376 Ausonius's son, Hesperius , was made proconsul of Africa. In 379 Ausonius was awarded the consulate , the highest Roman honour. In 383, the army of Britain, led by Magnus Maximus , revolted against Gratian and assassinated him at Lyons; and when Emperor Valentinian II

275-616: The Middle Ages , the village was held by the House of Kasselburg, whose castle seat was in the village. It gave the noble family its name, and is still known today as the Kasselburg . On 18 May 1897, Pelm was the site of a railway disaster when a troop train crashed into some uncoupled rolling stock causing seven of the train's coaches to derail . In the accident, ensuing chaos and fire, ten men – nine military personnel and one civilian – were killed. Many more were wounded. The council

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300-416: The modern era . The mills at Barbegal , in southern France , are famous for their application of water power to grinding grain to make flour and were built in the 1st century AD. They consisted of 16 mills in a parallel sequence on a hill near Arles . The construction of a saw mill is even simpler than a flour or grinding mill since no gearing is needed, and the rotary saw blade can be driven directly from

325-549: The Great, whereupon Ausonius returned to Bordeaux to complete his education under the rhetorician Minervius Alcimus. Having completed his studies, he trained for some time as an advocate, but he preferred teaching. In 334 he became a grammaticus (instructor) at a school of rhetoric in Bordeaux and afterwards a rhetor or professor. His teaching attracted many pupils, some of whom became eminent in public life. His most famous pupil

350-411: The cavity reverberating, thrusts between the bones, and strikes with ivory quill. And now, their journey covered, wearily they neared their very goal: then rapid breathing shakes his limbs and parched mouth, his sweat in rivers flows; down he slumps bloodless; the fluid drips from his groin. His writings are also remarkable for mentioning in passing the working of a water mill sawing marble on

375-430: The flower is fresh and fresh is youth, remembering that your own time is hurrying on. Itque reditque viam totiens | uteroque recusso transadigit costas | et pectine pulsat eburno. Iamque fere spatio extremo fessique sub ipsam finem adventabant: | tum creber anhelitus artus aridaque ora quatit, sudor fluit undique rivis, labitur exsanguis, | destillat ab inguine virus. Back and forth he plies his path and,

400-588: The gatehouse still being in Or (gold), but the field in sable (black). The composition on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side did not appear at all. Nonetheless, in both forms of the arms, the gatehouse represents the local mediaeval landmark, the Kasselburg ( castle ). Buildings: Kyll The Kyll ( German pronunciation: [ˈkɪl] ), noted by the Roman poet Ausonius as Celbis ,

425-502: The grounds. At one, a fragmentary red sandstone club, likely from a statue of Hercules , was found in 1986. A torso from such a statue was unearthed in 1834, but has since been lost. Other statuary has been found representing Mercury and Venus , for instance. Coins, too, have been found, from a quinarius minted in Africa in 47 or 46 BC to various coins struck about AD 400. One find, a fibula , dates from early La Tène times . In

450-474: The land now owned by Château Ausone , which takes its name from him. Ausonius appears to have been a late and perhaps not very enthusiastic convert to Christianity . He died about 395. His grandson, Paulinus of Pella , was also a poet. His works attest to the devastation that Ausonius's Gaul would face soon after his death. Although admired by his contemporaries, the writings of Ausonius have not since been ranked among Latin literature 's finest. His style

475-437: The rank of quaestor . His presence at court gave Ausonius the opportunity to connect with a number of influential people. In 369, he met Quintus Aurelius Symmachus ; their friendship proved mutually beneficial. Gratian liked and respected his tutor, and when he became emperor in 375, he began bestowing on Ausonius and his family the highest civil honors. That year Ausonius was made Praetorian Prefect of Gaul, campaigned against

500-455: The technical handling of meter . Decimius Magnus Ausonius was born c.  310 in Burdigala (now Bordeaux ), the son of Julius Ausonius ( c.  290  – 378), a physician of Greek ancestry, and Aemilia Aeonia, daughter of Caecilius Argicius Arborius, descended on both sides from established, land-owning Gallo-Roman families of southwestern Gaul . Ausonius

525-489: The west of the village was a Gallo-Roman sanctuary. It had already been widely destroyed by graverobbers by the time a systematic investigation was done in 1928. More recently, newer information was brought to light by a dig undertaken in 1986 by the Trier Rhenish State Museum . The trapezoidal wall that once bounded the hallowed grounds, whose greatest length is 65 m and whose greatest breadth

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550-473: Was a Roman poet and teacher of rhetoric from Burdigala , Aquitaine (now Bordeaux , France). For a time, he was tutor to the future Emperor Gratian , who afterwards bestowed the consulship on him. His best-known poems are Mosella , a description of the River Moselle , and Ephemeris , an account of a typical day in his life. His many other verses show his concern for his family, friends, teachers and circle of well-to-do acquaintances and his delight in

575-505: Was driven out of Italy, Ausonius retired to his estates near Burdigala (now Bordeaux), in Gaul. Magnus Maximus was overthrown by Emperor Theodosius I in 388, but Ausonius did not leave his country estates. They were, he says, his nidus senectutis , the "nest of his old age", and there, he spent the rest of his days, composing poetry and writing to many eminent contemporaries, several of whom had been his pupils. His estates supposedly included

600-480: Was given a strict upbringing by his aunt and grandmother, both named Aemilia. He received an excellent education at Bordeaux and at Toulouse, where his maternal uncle, Aemilius Magnus Arborius , was a professor. Ausonius did well in grammar and rhetoric, but professed that his progress in Greek was unsatisfactory. In 328 Arborius was summoned to Constantinople to become tutor to Constans , the youngest son of Constantine

625-482: Was the poet Paulinus , who later became a Christian and Bishop of Nola . After thirty years of that work, Ausonius was summoned by Emperor Valentinian I to teach his son, Gratian , the heir-apparent. When Valentinian took Gratian on the German campaigns of 368–369, Ausonius accompanied them. Ausonius turned literary skill into political capital. In recognition of his services emperor Valentinian bestowed on Ausonius

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