History
The name comes from the Latin characteristics and was formerly Cannis (Latin canna = Reed, lat = Cannis reed banks) written. The town was first mentioned in 893. The spelling was used as characteristic from the 1700th
There are several findings from the Iron Age and Roman finds in there were several characteristics. A statue of a Roman nymph is in good state of preservation in the Rheinische Landesmuseum Trier and a copy of Characteristics in the Roman Court.
At today's connoisseur-Ley is the old post road, this is part of a Roman road that led from Trier to Bingen.
Under French territorial sovereignty characteristic of the Mairie Longuich allocated in Canton Schweich. The Maximiner Hofgut was sold 1812th Between 1803 and 1808, was characteristic Sukkursalpfarrei and was then up to the final establishment of a parish church as a chapel with a vicar.
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