Sumelocenna Museum

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Artist's impression of Sumelocenna by Eduard von Kallee .

The Sumelocenna Museum (Roman City Museum) is an archaeological museum in Rottenburg am Neckar in the Tübingen district . The museum shows the everyday life of the Roman provincial population in ancient Sumelocenna , today's Rottenburg.

The museum was set up with the support of the state of Baden-Württemberg , the Sülchgauer Altertumsverein Rottenburg and various sponsors and opened in November 1992. The excavated remains of the ancient city are partially integrated into the museum building. Probably the most impressive part of the building is the 32-meter-long, luxuriously equipped Roman toilet facility . The museum offers an insight into the hygienic conditions and the engineering and craftsmanship of the Roman period. The exhibited archaeological finds are vividly supplemented by numerous reconstructions , models and graphics. A diorama with around 650 tin figures is particularly worth seeing .

The regular special exhibitions , which mostly show the practical aspects of life at the time, are very popular, as is the Roman Festival, which takes place every two (odd) years on the last weekend in August.

literature

  • Karin Heiligmann: Sumelocenna: Roman City Museum Rottenburg am Neckar. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1073-X
  • Anita Gaubatz-Sattler: Rottenburg am Neckar. Roman city of Sumelocenna . In: Dieter Planck (Ed.): The Romans in Baden-Württemberg. P. 281ff. Theiss, Stuttgart, 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1555-3
  • Anita Gaubatz: Rottenburg a. N. Roman city of Sumelocenna. In: Philipp Filtzinger , Dieter Planck and Bernhard Cämmerer (eds.): The Romans in Baden-Württemberg. 3rd edition, p. 510ff. Theiss, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0287-7
  • Karlheinz Geppert: A journey into Roman times: the Sumelocenna Museum in Rottenburg am Neckar. Sülchgauer Altertumsverein, Rottenburg am Neckar 1996. (Children's non-fiction book and museum guide)
  • Hartmann Reim: Excavations in Roman Sumelocenna (Rottenburg), Tübingen district. In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , 3rd year 1974, issue 4, pp. 40–45. ( PDF )
  • Anita Gaubatz: The ancient Sumelocenna-Rottenburg . In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , 14th year 1985, issue 4, pp. 224–230. ( PDF )

Web links

Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 41.9 ″  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 10.5 ″  E