Adventure space Römerstraße Cologne – Trier
Erlebnisraum Römerstraße Cologne – Trier is a project within the framework of the Regionale 2010 , the aim of which is to make the public aware of the Römerstraße Trier – Cologne as Agrippa Street Cologne – Trier and to market it for tourists.
Goal setting
The communities on the Römerstrasse in North Rhine-Westphalia, the communities in the ILEK Kalkeifel region and the Rhineland Regional Council (LVR) are involved in the project . Cooperation with the Straße der Römer municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate is sought. A link with other regional projects, Regio: green , is obvious. The city of Erftstadt is in charge of the planned section to Schmidtheim (municipality of Dahlem ) . On January 23, 2007, the municipalities involved in the project drafted the Erftstadt Declaration and agreed on the most extensive cooperation. Many municipalities have also joined this declaration on the Via Belgica , which also originates from Cologne .
The Roman State Road (via publica), which led from the capital of the Roman province of Lower Germany , the Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium ( Cologne ), to the Augustus city in the land of the Treverians , Augusta Treverorum ( Trier ), is said to be partly recognizable in the cultural landscape is further developed for tourism under the brand name Agrippa-Straße Cologne – Trier and, where it has disappeared in individual sections, made visible again. Research on Altstrasse has received a substantial boost thanks to the appropriate funding and support from the municipalities involved and affected . By prospecting on a corridor up to 250 meters wide along the street, it was possible to prove that at least every three to four kilometers, in more densely populated areas often only at a distance of a few hundred meters, there are sites of various sizes of vici directly on the street (Settlements), mansiones (hostels) and horse changing stations (mutationes) , stationes beneficiarium (military street posts) and religious consecration areas. This applies even more to road crossings, branches and river crossings. The Rheinische Bodendenkmalpflege in Bonn is responsible for the scientific archaeological support of the project .
Agrippa roads
Under Agrippa Street is today understood under Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa , the Roman general and son of Augustus as governor of Gaul , there from Lugdunum ( Lyon ) from four built highways. According to the ancient geographer Strabo, these are : one [...] to Aquitaine , one to the Rhine and thirdly to the ocean with the Bellovakians and Ambians [ Amiens ], the fourth is the one to the Narbonite and the Massali coast [ Marseille ] .
course
The road was generally led in a strictly straight line to the main destination and only when larger streams or large inclines / slopes no longer allowed it, bent at obtuse angles or even adapted to the slope in order to swing back into the main direction as soon as possible . The route has been handed down in historical sources : The Latin place names are in itineraries , the Tabula Peutingeriana , in which the road is roughly drawn, and in the Itinerarium Antonini (with the route variant via cheap ( Belgica vicus ) to Wesseling ). In maps from the 19th century, such as the topographical map of the Rhineland by Jean Joseph Tranchot or the older official topographical maps from the Prussian first map , the course is even more clearly recognizable than it is today and is often even shown as a Roman road . The first modern expansion of the road from 1852–1856 according to the Prussian cabinet order from government funds also followed the Roman route wherever possible or opportune. The course can usually be followed quite well on digital maps and aerial photographs, such as Google Earth , which can be reached via the coordinates in the location articles. The street names referring to the historical street in the hybrid version of Google Earth are also helpful.
- The course falls at its beginning in Cologne (from Luxemburger Straße / Kölnerringen ) and Hürth ( Efferen , Hermülheim , local recreation area Hürtherberg ) to Zülpich together with the later Zülpicher or Trierer Chaussee , today's Luxemburger Straße, the Bundesstraße 265 . In the area of the Rhenish lignite mining area between Hürth and Liblar, it is still visible as a line of the mining fields that were once delimited by the road during recultivation . It is possible to visualize it there, but not to walk on the former route for the time being. Shortly after Liblar, the new B 265, which bypasses Liblar to the west, meets the old route again.
- In the area of the city of Erftstadt , the road leads through the center of Liblar on the old route and then leads behind Frauenthal as a dirt road past Lechenich via the Römerhof stud farm straight behind Weiler in the plain again meeting the B 265 to Zülpich ( Tolbiacum ). The transitions over the Erft near Frauenthal and the Rotbach near Ahrem are no longer visible. The sections of the route plowed over at the Erft and Rotbach passages can be seen as clear discoloration in the Google aerial photo.
- After Zülpich- Hoven , it turns straight back to the left as a dirt road (today's road turns right after two kilometers to Merzenich ) to the upper valley of the Rotbach at the Eickser Mühle. From there through the Eickser Busch to the hostel . This section is looked after by the Eifelverein as Römerweg Zülpich-Hostel , marker 10 c . (The first section on the county road to Merzenich is replaced by a swivel past the Zülpicher See .) In the hostel it meets and crosses the coronation path Bonn / Andernach - Aachen .
- The further course is, due to the livelier relief, no longer so clearly recognizable, but it will mostly have been dead straight. The route leads, partially recognizable on the map, via Schützendorf , Kall , Nettersheim , Marmagen ( Marcomagus ) (perhaps an alternative route to Blankenheimerdorf ) to Schmidtheim .
- From there it runs parallel to federal highway 51 , crosses the Kyll at Jünkerath ( Icorigium ) , then to Gönnersdorf , west past Lissendorf , possibly through Auel , past Schänen , tangent to Oos (now part of Gerolstein ) and then south past Büdesheim . The ancient Ausava , from which Oos derives its name, was somewhere in the area of the last two places, but the ancient Ausava has not yet been found.
- It then leads past Weißenseifen , Neidenbach , Waxbrunnen, Staffelstein to Bitburg , the ancient Beda. In the further course it lies more or less on (actually below) or to the side of today's B 51 via Meilbrück, Helenenberg, Windmühle, Aach - Hohensonne , Neuhaus through Trier-West to the Römerbrücke , on the city side of Trier , the ancient Augusta Treverorum .
Projects
- The city Huerth has in conjunction with the competent national Road Construction North Rhine-Westphalia in connecting blocks to the B 265 through two roundabouts those designed so that on the roundabout in order to resemble Roman road with appropriate Mediterranean roadside green and one each oversized stele was erected, to remind of the Roman leugensteine . These are visible from a great distance even for fast road users and are also illuminated at night so that they draw attention to the 2000 year old road. Of the short stretch of road over the roundabout, the side facing the Colonia was paved with stone slabs, the other side, as is usual in rural areas, with a water-bound ceiling . Near the second roundabout, the road crosses the course of the Roman Eifel aqueduct (and the Roman canal hiking trail ) from Nettersheim to Cologne. Later in a remnant of the old lying on the Roman route is Napoleonic - Prussian Chaussee on the villas height preserved and restored before the route in the former opencast loses. During the dismantling of the old route in the area of the Hürtherberg lignite mine , Roman finds were made. In Efferen a well-preserved but unadorned Roman grave was uncovered, which was also to be expected on Roman arterial roads. A related vicus has not yet been found. Together with other sites (including a villa rustica in the Hürther Valley and a burial ground between Hans-Böckler-Strasse and the Bonnstrasse in Hermülheim, also recognized as Römerstrasse, with the consecration stones reused there), Hürth is already well positioned for the project. In the future it is still intended to make the line of the old road visible again in the recultivated opencast mine. A lookout point in a high-voltage pylon nearby is ideal for this. On a excavated statio beneficiarium (military road post) on the Villenhöhe, the Burgus Villenhöhe , as well as on a vicus named M [o] nerica, which is wrongly located on the Tabula Peutingeriana but on the border of Brühl / Hürth six Leugen from Cologne on the Roman road that has now been excavated can be pointed out. The busy Luxemburger Straße has cycle paths on both sides. The other sites (on the Römerkanal hiking trail, for example) can also be reached quickly on foot or by bike in a short distance.
- In Erftstadt, the river crossings have again been made more clearly recognizable and a Roman (presumed) road station ( mansio ) found in the ground has been made visible through gabions and rebuilt as a model next to the route to serve as a road museum with models of the historical roads and their accessories. A porticus villa found next to the street is indicated by an elevation . The impressively straight course of the field path in continuation of today's Carl-Schurz-Straße is to be made even more manageable in the Friesheim area with a lookout tower. According to an award-winning proposal by the Oberhausen planning group, the submerged sections of the route are to be highlighted by planting pine trees in a row. Uniform steel plates should be used to point out the street and nearby sights. There is also cooperation with the Rhineland Nature Park . The remaining parts of the road are protected as a ground monument.
- Zülpich, which today already calls itself a Roman town , wants to make the street visible again where it is paved over in the fields and to highlight the stretches that are still in use with copies of Leugenstein. The other important finds, especially the Roman Baths , today's Museum of Bathing Culture , are included in the presentation. Zülpich hopes for a special boost for his projects from the 2014 State Garden Show with the Millennium Gardens from Roman times to the present day .
- Mechernich plans to include the impressive, partly reconstructed remains of the Eifel aqueduct in the presentation. There is also a lookout point at the end of the straight line on the border with Keldenich (Kall) . A mound of earth that has not yet been identified is also to be examined.
- In the area of the city of Kall , the route in the forest and in the Königsfeldertal and Urft valley is only to be cleared and made accessible again.
- Nettersheim sees itself as responsible for the southern section of the Urft crossing and the stretch from there to Görresburg , which so far can only be seen in the aerial photograph , which is to be topographically recorded and placed under protection up to the city limits of Blankenheim. A department on Agrippa Street is to be set up in the nearby Eifel nature conservation center.
- In Blankenheim, a 100 m long section is to be restored as part of the hiking trail to the Tiergarten tunnel. Reference should be made to the Roman Villa Blankenheim , which is to be partially made visible again.
- In Dahlem, too, a section on the Heidenkopf is to be cleared again and the street on the Vierherrenstein is to be shown as the boundary between the districts that still exists today.
See also
- Parallel project to the Regionale: The Roman road Via Belgica
- Roman road Marmagen-Wesseling
Web links
- erlebnisraum-roemerstrasse.de - Official website
- regional2010.de / ... - Project presentation of the Römerstrasse adventure space
- To search for cultural goods: Roman road in the database of cultural goods in the Trier region .
- To search for categories in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
literature
- Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Rheinische Bodendenkmalpflege, Bonn: Erlebnisraum Römerstraße Cologne-Trier, Erftstadt-Kolloquium 2007 , materials for soil conservation in the Rhineland 18, Treis-Karden 2007, ISBN 978-3-9806426-9-9
- Heinz Günter Horn : Out and about with the Romans: Agrippastraße, From Cologne to Dahlem in 4 stages , JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne October 2014, ISBN 978-3-761627822
- Roman-Germanic Museum of the City of Cologne / Information Center “Erlebnisraum Römerstraße” (ed.) Marion Euskirchen, Stefan Kleuver, Beate Schneider: Römer Straße Cologne, Through Space and Time , booklet for families and young readers online , Cologne 2014 (only for the city Cologne)
Sources / individual references
- ^ Klaus Grewe : The Agrippastraße between Cologne and Trier. In: LVR .: Erlebnisraum Römerstrasse Cologne – Trier pp. 31–64 (see lit.). Name also earlier in Klaus Pippke, Ida Pallhuber: The Eifel. DuMont art travel guide, Cologne 1984, p. 277.
- ↑ Jeanne-Nora Andrikopoulou-Strack, Wolfgang Gaitzsch , Klaus Grewe, Susanne Jenter and Cornelius Ulbert: New research on the Roman roads in the Rhineland . In: Thomas Otten, Hansgerd Hellenkemper, Jürgen Kunow, Michael Rind (eds.): Find stories - Archeology in North Rhine-Westphalia . Accompanying book for the state exhibition NRW 2010. S. 163 f .
- ↑ Strabon 4, 6, 11 C 208, quoted from Michael Rathmann: The meaning of the streets in the Roman Empire , in Erftstadt Colloquium p. 29.
- ^ Peter Simons: Development of the traffic system in the Euskirchener area. In: Our home. Supplement to the Euskirchener Volksblatt 7th year 1930.
- ↑ Entry Römerstraße on the district map No. 44 Euskirchen
- ↑ Hiking route 10c of the Eifelverein ( Memento from September 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Gunter Amtmann, Kreuzweingarten: Zülpich – Jünkerath line
- ^ Entry on the traces of a Roman road (Oos, Gerolstein municipality) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- ↑ Karl-Josef Gilles: Where was the ancient "AUS AVA"? (No longer available online.) In: Heimatjahrbuch 1987. Landkreis Vulkaneifel, p. 176 , archived from the original on May 2, 2014 ; accessed on February 3, 2016 (critical to Ausava).
- ↑ Clemens Klug: Hürth - as it was, as it was. Steimel Verlag, Cologne undated (1962), p. 30.
- ^ Raymund Gottschalk: Romans and Franks in Hürth. Verlag Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2014, pp. 24–28. An ancient map and a vanished town
- ↑ Roman villa Frauenthal at erlebnisraum-roemerstrasse.de
- ↑ regional 2010. (PDF; 20 MB) Regionale 2010 Agentur GmbH, Cologne, 2012, accessed on October 19, 2019 .
- ^ Projects mainly based on Klaus Grewe, in Erftstadt Kolloquium, pp. 61–64