- Tawern
The temple precinct lies on a long-distance Roman road from South Gaul that led from Metz to Trier, and on to the Rhine. It has been fully researched archaeologically. The prominent site on the Metzenberg offered travellers their first view of Augusta Treverorum, 15 km away, and provided them with an opportunity to make offerings to the gods after a long journey. The temples were also a place of worship for local pilgrims. The sacred precinct (temenos) measured 29/47 x 39 m. It was trapezoid in shape and surrounded by a wall. There was a portal (propylon) at the entrance. On the upper terrace two temples of different types have been rebuilt. One is a Gallo-Roman temple with ambulatory (Temple I), beside which a chapel (II) stands. The foundations of the two temples to the east have been conserved, and reconstructed here as 3D-animations. Here, in Roman times, a temple with ambulatory and a square cella (IV) replaced an earlier hall-shaped temple (III) in front of it. Immediately behind them a well with a dedicatory inscription on the wall around it served cult purposes. Various gods, above all Mercury in his Gallic form, were worshipped here from the early 1st to the late 4th century. The building nearby was probably an inn. A station of the Roads of the Romans.
The temple precinct lies on a long-distance Roman road from South Gaul that led from Metz to Trier, and on to the Rhine. It has been fully researched archaeologically. The prominent site on the Metzenberg offered travellers their first view of Augusta Treverorum, 15 km away, and provided them with an opportunity to make offerings to the gods after a long journey. The temples were also a place of worship for local pilgrims.
The sacred precinct (temenos) measured 29/47 x 39 m. It was trapezoid in shape and surrounded by a wall. There was a portal (propylon) at the entrance. On the upper terrace two temples of different types have been rebuilt. One is a Gallo-Roman temple with ambulatory (Temple I), beside which a chapel (II) stands. The foundations of the two temples to the east have been conserved, and reconstructed here as 3D-animations. Here, in Roman times, a temple with ambulatory and a square cella (IV) replaced an earlier hall-shaped temple (III) in front of it. Immediately behind them a well with a dedicatory inscription on the wall around it served cult purposes.
Various gods, above all Mercury in his Gallic form, were worshipped here from the early 1st to the late 4th century. The building nearby was probably an inn.
A station of the Roads of the Romans.
