Roman road Marmagen-Wesseling

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The Roman road Marmagen-Wesseling (also known as the cheap Roman road ) was a Roman side road . It was probably built at the beginning of the Roman Empire under Augustus (end of the 1st century BC, around 15 BC). With a length of about 45 km, the connection branched off at Marmagen , the ancient Marcomagus , from the ancient Agrippa road between Augusta Treverorum ( Trier ) and Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium ( Cologne ), led through the cheap vicus ( Belgica vicus ) and ended at the Roman camp Wesseling in the south from Wesseling . It is probably older than the “official” part of the Agrippastraße from Zülpich to Cologne, which was probably not built until after Agrippa's death in 12 BC. Was completed.

The branch off Agrippastraße (Cologne-Trier) created a direct connection to Wesseling. Part of this 6-8 meter wide road was laid out as a gravel road, the subsoil was pounded and pebbled with gravel so that the legionnaires could march comfortably side by side in rows of six. The road was generally led straight to the destination, but adapted to larger streams, inclines or steep slopes and then led back in the main direction.

Route

Even today the route is partly used as a road: Distinctive points of this archaeological monument are the connection to the Roman settlement Belgica vicus (near cheap), the Erft crossing north of Roitzheim , the ravine west of Metternich and the Swist crossing in Metternich. Here the Roman road crossed the Swist between the two castles. To the south of it, today's street is called Römerstraße , which continues outside the village as a dirt road.

The course of the Roman road in the area of ​​the Vicus von Billig ( Belgica vicus ) is well documented archaeologically ; in the vicus a second Roman road branched off, which probably led to the legionary camp of Bonn , and a third road to Tolbiacum .

An asphalt path called "Kreuzweg" leads from Mechernich-Weyer to Landesstraße 206 and ends here today (50 ° 31'26 "N; 6 ° 37'4" E) . In the Tranchot map recorded in this area around 1809 it is referred to as “König Strasse” and at that time led from Weyer to Urft . This path is probably part of the Roman road Marmagen-Wesseling, which also crossed the Roman road Trier-Cologne , which is now preserved as a dirt road .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roman roads in the Rhineland. Retrieved September 25, 2017 (private website).
  2. ^ The exodus of the army - The Roman army marches into Galilee. University of Freiburg, accessed on September 25, 2017 .
  3. ^ Harald von Petrikovits : Belgica (Euskirchen-Billig). In: Northeastern Eifel foreland - Euskirchen, Zülpich, Bad Münstereifel, Blankenheim. Part II: Excursions (= Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz et al. [Hrsg.]: Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments. Volume 26). Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 1974, p. 142.
  4. ↑ Joseph Hagen: Römerstraßen der Rheinprovinz (=  explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province . Volume 8 ). 2nd Edition. Kurt Schroeder Verlag, Bonn 1931, p. 148 .
  5. ↑ Heinz Günter Horn : Out and about with the Romans: Agrippastraße. From Cologne to Dahlem in 4 stages. JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-7616-2782-2 , p. 155.

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 33.8 "  N , 6 ° 52 ′ 48.3"  E