Porrentruy

Porrentruy is a Swiss municipality and seat of the district of the same call positioned inside the canton of Jura. The first trace of human presence in Porrentruy is a mesolithic device that become located in the returned backyard of the Hotel-Dieu. Scattered, man or woman objects have additionally been found from the neolithic, the past due Bronze Age and the Iron Age. The first recognized settlement in what became Porrentruy goes lower back to the Roman generation. In 1983, the ruins of a Gallo-Roman temple have been discovered inside the cemetery on the north of city, and Roman cash were discovered there.

Near the metropolis, a kilometer long section of the Augst-Epomanduodurum Roman street became located. In the returned backyard of the Hotel-Dieu the charred remains of a constructing from the 10th or 11th century have been observed. However, the first historic point out of the name occurs in 1136 as Purrentru. The call possibly comes from the Latin pons Ragentrudis. Ragentrud changed into the wife of the Frankish King Dagobert I. The German shape of the call, Pruntrut can also have a separate etymology from Bruntrutum, this means that an plentiful spring. You can come here and explore this place.