Das Landesmuseum Trier

Roma secunda or Rome of the north was praised Trier. To go to Trier, today tells at the very front to want to see the Roman monuments, namely the Roman construction monuments unique in Germany in the town and the archaeological findings in the Rhenish land museum of Trier. Roman Mosaike, grave reliefs and images of a god from stone belong to the prominent monuments of the Rhenish land museum of Trier.

The spectrum of the exhibits is still much broader in the Rhenish land museum and reaches from the prehistory since the Stone Ages about the Roman epoch and the Middle Ages till the modern times.

Old and new exhibit areas combine to a variety. The younger Celtic time about Caesars conquests up to admission of Roman life-style is in the exhibit furnished since 1998„ Treveri. A Celt's trunk becomes Roman“ gone over.

The big Celt's wall of brook Allen is copied with her castle gate. The power of the walls much stronger still originally becomes foreseeable. Being astonished the visitor may stand also before the technology with which without Mörtel a stable wall was established as she resisted before Alesia also Caesars troops.

At the opposite end of this exhibit area the visitor finds the contrast point moreover, the model of the Late-Roman emperor's residence about 360/370 A.D. what a change has took place in the architecture more than 400 to 500 years of the Celt's castle to the Late-Roman town? The town model shows the well planned street system with his checkered pattern. Representative buildings, also even today everywhere her tracks leave have, are distributed during the town. Roman architecture shows obviously a climax in architecture, technology and town planning.

A bronze pot, in Feldstrasse in 1993 discovered, rescued the biggest golden coins treasure from the Roman world! His contents - more than 2000 Roman golden coins. Today he is shown in the coin cabinet of the Rhenish land museum. Not only his shine fascinates, but also his discovery history and his historical logical value. The wealth of the Roman population becomes clear in two internationally signifying Austellungskomplexen.„ Neumagener Gräberstrasse“ is characterized by grave monuments of extraordinary size. Their narrative-fond relief pictures illustrate the colored life the Moselle land on the tombs: the mistress in the circle of her servants with the morning toilet, man with his successful return of the hunt.

From special fame are the Neumagener wine ship and the school relief. Only here in the land museum the meeting with the original is possible in all these cases. The tessellated hall reflects the equipment luxury of Roman villas. In the Trierer land the Rhenish land museum of Trier has dug out more than 200 Mosaike, even more than the rest of Roman Germany all together has to offer - a statistical identity card for the extraordinary prosperity of the population of the 2nd and 3-rd century on the Moselle. The rich coloring has unbroken. Decorations and motives dispose of a splendid variety. In the highest execution ready with art we meet muses, Anaximander as the inventor of the solar clock or victorious racing driver Polydus with his lap of honor. Select works of the art provide a reflection of the emperor's residence in gold, ivory and glass.

A climax of the glass art is the famous Diatretglas with extensive network, in fantastic Schleiftechnik of the glass worked out. To the highest court circles is to be added the owner of the Diatretglases who had also received golden garment braces according to the inscription of emperor Konstantin 315 A.D. on the occasion of the tenth government jubilee.

A select collection of early-Christian monuments at the place of the oldest German bishop's seat encloses pieces of art in ivory, precious metals and glass, as well as a unique fullness of Rome outside of early-Christian inscriptions on a gravestone. The tomb of the Trierer Domdechanten Christoph von Rheineck (+ 1535) has a special place in the exhibit of the museum. A work of prominent rank in the German early Renaissance is the baldachin-like triumphal curve architecture; the risen, surrounded by sleeping grave guards, bekrönt the monument.

Exquisite pieces of art have been gathered on the basis of private collections of the last century. Archaeological findings are the fruit of nearly 200-year-old excavation activity in the rich ground of Trier. 200 years ago the society has taken care for useful researches first of this task; for 125 years the Rhenish land museum, founded formerly as the Rhenish provincial museum, by order of the land Rhineland-Palatinate of this responsibility positions itself.

By his collection and excavation activity the museum is a treasury of international rank to the art history and archeology the Moselle land and his neighbouring areas.