Roman Ruwer water pipeline

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Remains of the original of the Roman Ruwer water pipe in Waldrach

The Roman Ruwer water pipeline supplied ancient Trier ( Augusta Treverorum ) with water from the Ruwer , a right tributary of the Moselle . The removal of water was about 200 meters above the Riveris muzzle in the Ruwer at Waldrach to about 160  m above sea level. NHN ( 49 ° 44 ′ 19.8 "  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 44.8"  E, coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 19.8 "  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 44.8"  E ) . The aqueduct with a length of 12.8 kilometers and a gradient of 7.74 meters (= 0.6 ‰) led through the Ruwertal and past the Grüneberg over the Avelertal to Trier in the area north of the amphitheater , from where the water in Well and water reservoir was forwarded. The water was also used for the operation of the Kaiserthermen and the Barbarathermen .

The complex was built in the early 2nd century from sandstone blocks , slate rubble and lime mortar and partly led over bridge structures. The width of the channel was 74 cm, the height 96 cm. The mean water flow height was about 60 cm, which can be read from the sintering and plastering marks on the canal cheeks.

The efficiency, based on the mean flow velocity of the Ruwer of about 0.29 m³ / s, results in about 25,000 m³ per day and thus more than 9 million m³ per year. This amount roughly corresponds to the drinking water needs of today's city of Trier.

A reconstruction of the Roman aqueduct is located near Waldrach on Ruwertalstraße ( Kreisstraße 12 ) in the direction of Korlingen on the tourist road of the Romans . Remnants of the original of the water pipe were uncovered in Waldrach in the area of ​​the former train station directly on the Ruwer-Hochwald cycle path . A short piece of this water pipe was built on a concrete base to demonstrate the construction and cross-section. The building material comes from the original Roman aqueduct, which had to be excavated in the immediate vicinity in 1974 when the Ruwertalstraße was relocated.
Most of this important building from Roman times is still hidden in the earth in the western Ruwertal slope.
In the building of the former Löwenbrauerei Trier , Bergstrasse, parts of the Ruwer water pipeline could be viewed.

The excess water was then fed into the municipal sewer system. Today the city of Trier gets some of its drinking water from the same catchment area of ​​the high forest, from the Riveristalsperre .

literature

  • Heinz Cüppers : The Ruwertal water pipe. In: H. Cüppers (Ed.): The Romans in Rhineland-Palatinate. Licensed edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-933203-60-0 , pp. 586-588.
  • Adolf Neyses: The Ruwer water pipe of the Roman Trier. In: Journees d'Etudes sur les Aqueducs Romains. Pp. 275-292.
  • Joachim Hupe: Schützenstraße: Roman city wall and Ruwer water pipe; Sabine Faust: Waldrach, Trier-Saarburg district. Roman Ruwer aqueduct. In: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier (ed.): Guide to archaeological monuments of the Trier region (= series of publications by the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. No. 35). Trier 2008, ISBN 978-3-923319-73-2 , p. 64 f. and 184 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Roman aqueduct near Waldrach. Tourist information Ruwer

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