In the Roman era, a fortified tower guarded the crossing of
two Roman roads that met at the site of Luxembourg city. Through an exchange
treaty with the abbey of Saint Maximin in Trier in 963, Siegfried I of the Ardennes,
a close relative of King Louis II of France and Emperor Otto the Great,
acquired the feudal lands of Luxembourg. Siegfried built his castle, named Lucilinburhuc
("small castle"), on the Bock Fiels ("rock"), mentioned for
the first time in the aforementioned exchange treaty.
In 987 Egbert, Archbishop of Trier consecrated five altars
in the Church of the Redemption (today St
