A fact from Kirchardt appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 August 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the importance of the acorn as fodder for locally raised pigs led the German town of Kirchardt to include one on the town crest?
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I'm currently translating the quite extensive German article. Not done yet, so please don't erase the (hidden) German text on the article page. Thanks! Taiwantaffy (talk) 13:51, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"The appellation villa denoted that Kirchardt was then a small community not long settled." No, often long-established, villa still meant a self-sufficient agricultural community centered on a (perhaps defensible) farmstead and worked by villeins (a later usage). More than a few Roman villas in western Germany passed into the Merovingian fisc and were granted to found monasteries.--Wetman (talk) 20:13, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
