Burg Reuland’s history
Thommen was already noted in the map of Wiltheim, around 360 to 400 A.D. by the roman emperor Theodosus. During Carolingian times, a villa, “palatium ad tumbas” was located here, which was noted in documents dating back to the 9th century. Since medieval times (11th to 12th century), a castle was located in the free town of Ouren and the barony Reuland. From early on, both communities were bound to Luxembourg. The dominion of Reuland also included parts of what is today northern Luxembourg. French revolutionary armies destroyed the castle. The Austrian heir to the throne, Maria-Theresia, accepted sovereignty of the Luxembourg country with the Peace of Aachen (1748).
As of 1794, both new communities, Ouren and Reuland, belonged to the newly founded Département de l' Ourthe.
1815, at the Vienna Congress, the area that today is the community of Burg-Reuland, was allocated to Prussia. After World War I, except for 1940 to 1945, it receded to Belgium. It survived the Ardennes Offensive in the winter of 1944 relatively intact.
