Via Agrippa
Under Via Agrippa , 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 that to the ocean with the Bellovakians and Ambians , the fourth is the one to the Narbonite and the Massali coast."
Usage of the term
The name Via Agrippa only became common in modern times, especially when it comes to tourist posts for the route from Lyon to the Mediterranean coast to Narbonne or Marseille , which is still often recognizable in the Rhone Valley . The second route from Lyon to the Atlantic is often seen as a continuation of this road. Less known as Agrippa Road is the route to Aquitaine. Recently, the Bonn antiquity scholar Klaus Grewe ( LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland ) has published the section of Strabon's second Roman road, previously only generally referred to as Römerstrasse Trier – Cologne (or vice versa), as Agrippa Strasse Cologne – Trier in the literature and in the Discussion introduced on the rediscovery of the Roman heritage in our contemporary cultural landscape. This seems particularly fortunate, as the term via, like the Via Appia, is more likely to be introduced for the well-known streets.
Agrippa roads
- Agrippa road to Aquitaine: the route leads from Lugdunum via Augustonemetum ( Clermont-Ferrand ), Lemovicum ( Limoges ) to the sea to Mediolanum santonum ( Saintes ) and Burdigala ( Bordeaux )
- Agrippa road to the Rhine: From Lugdunum the road changes to the right bank of the Saône and then leads via Matisco ( Mâcon ), Cabillonum ( Chalon-sur-Saône ), Dibio ( Dijon ), Andemantunnum ( Langres ), Noviomagus ( Neufchâteau ) , Tullum ( Toul ), Divodurum ( Metz ), Ricciacum ( Ritzig ) after Augusta Treverorum ( Trier ) in Germany. The bridge over the Moselle was dendrologically to around 18/17 BC. Chr. And thus confirms the system in the second governorship of Agrippa. From Augusta Treverorum this road leads across the Eifel and via Beda ( Bitburg ), Ausava ( Oos ), Icorigium ( Jünkerath ), Marcomagus ( Marmagen ), Tolbiacum ( Zülpich ) to Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium ( Cologne )
- Agrippa road to Boulogne-sur-Mer: The road leads from the route to the north at Cabillonum via Augustodunum ( Autun ), Autessiodurum ( Auxerre ), Augustobona ( Troyes ), Durocortorum ( Reims ), Samarobriva ( Amiens ) to Gesoriacum ( Boulogne-sur-Mer )
- Agrippa-Straße into Narbonne: The connection with the Gallia Narbonensis was made from Lugdunum on the left bank of the Rhône via Vienna ( Vienne ), Valentia ( Valence ), Arausio ( Orange ) to Arelate ( Arles ), the intersection with the Via Aurelia
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Section of the Tabula Peutingeriana route Cologne-Trier
Via Agrippa between Sainte-Sévère and Cherves-Richemont in the Charente department
Via Agrippa near Beaumont-Monteux (Département Drôme) near the Rhône route
Typical straight route in the Eifel
Reference to Agrippa-Strasse in Huerth near Cologne
Uncovered profile of the Roman road Trier-Cologne near Dahlem , Eifel
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Strabon 4, 6, 11 C 208, quoted from Michael Rathmann: The meaning of the streets in the Roman Empire , in J. Kunow (ed.), Erlebnisraum Römerstraße Cologne-Trier; Erftstadt-Kolloquium 2007 Materials for the preservation of monuments in the Rhineland 18 (Bonn 2008) p. 29
- ↑ as Agrippa-Strasse already listed by Walter Pippke, Ida Pallhuber: Die Eifel , DuMont Art Travel Guide, Cologne 1984, p. 277
- ^ Klaus Grewe: The Agrippastraße between Cologne and Trier . in: J.Kunow (Hrsg.): Erlebnisraum Römerstraße Cologne-Trier ; (see above) pp. 31-64
- ↑ Klaus Grewe, p. 31
- ↑ Stations according to map in the Rathmann article cited above, p. 28 and Google and Wiki reviews