Porta Media

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Porta Media in the city model of Roman Trier ( Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier )

The Porta Media (also Porta Mediana ) was the southern city ​​gate of the Roman Trier . It stood at the southern end of today's Saarstrasse in the Trier-Süd district . The Latin name means "middle gate".

The city gate was built in the late 2nd century AD as part of the city fortifications of Trier. The Porta Media corresponded in size and design to the Porta Nigra , but sat on a rectangular foundation.

The Porta Media blocked the city's cardo maximus leading to the forum , which led outside the city as a trunk road to Metz ( Divodurum ). When the city wall was built, a pottery quarter had already been established west of the gate on the Moselle on today's Pacelliufer , which was now cut through by the city wall. But it continued to produce on both sides of the wall in the 3rd century. A burial ground developed in front of the gate, from which more than 2000 grave inventories reached the Rheinisches Landesmuseum between 1890 and 1920 alone . In late antiquity an early Christian sanctuary was built in this necropolis, from which the Benedictine Abbey of St. Matthias emerged .

Nothing is left of the city gate today; their existence, however, like those of the Porta Alba and the Porta Inclyta, is proven by remains of the foundations.

literature

  • Roman buildings in Trier. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2003, ISBN 3-7954-1445-8 ( guide booklet 20, Edition castles, antiquities Rhineland-Palatinate ), pp 11-13.
  • Heinz Cüppers (Ed.): The Romans in Rhineland-Palatinate. Licensed edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-933203-60-0 , p. 615.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roman buildings in Trier. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2003, ISBN 3-7954-1445-8 ( guide booklet 20, Edition castles, antiquities Rhineland-Palatinate ), p 13; Heinz Cüppers in Heinz Cüppers (Ed.): The Romans in Rhineland-Palatinate. Licensed edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-933203-60-0 , p. 614.
  2. ↑ a b Heinz Cüppers in Heinz Cüppers (Ed.): The Romans in Rhineland-Palatinate. Licensed edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-933203-60-0 , p. 615.
  3. ↑ Heinz Cüppers in H. Cüppers (Ed.): The Romans in Rhineland-Palatinate. Licensed edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-933203-60-0 , p. 637.
  4. ↑ http://www.baufachinformation.de/denkmalpflege/Die-Porta-Nigra-im-Rahmen-der-st%C3%A4dtebaulichen-Entwick-Triers/1987057101862

Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 30.9 "  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 59.9"  E