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One of the pillars holding the bridge up is broken and shifted a couple of inches. I always thought that might have something to do with why they closed it for vehicle traffic.

It's haunted 😮.

Wonderful!

This is awesome!

I wonder what country he was talking about? Mexico maybe?

Long ago my Mother's ex-boyfriend died on that bridge. He had just got engaged to another girl and his friend had returned from the military to see his newborn child, so they went over to Illinois to drink and celebrate. He had a little convertible and they came back home drunk, hit the bend in the bridge at a very high speed, bounced and flipped over. Both were killed instantly. The bridge had a nightwatchman who witnessed the whole thing. The day he was killed was my Grandmother's birthday, so my Mother went and bought her a dozen red roses. The florist kindly threw in a 13th rose, which was white. My Grandmother immediately said it was bad luck. The next day they opened the newspaper to find on the front page a story about the crash, which was how she learned of his death. She went to the funeral and met his fiancé, who she said was very nice. Curiously they both had the same first name, just spelled slightly different. My Mom showed me the newspaper clipping when I was younger, however it got lost over time.

Only in German publications, most of them written by Trier municipality and tourism bureau, Trier is called the largest Roman city north of the Alps.

'Churches repurposed as sewers'..... What an appropriate reuse of a building that was created to serve as this from day one.

Everywhere in Europe has a famous very dead "saint" to be venerated. I'm sure that the town down the road has a church devoted to Saint Go Go Na Na Neo Bunga.

Your presentation is well done and very accessible. But..... your visual presentation also counts. Ditch the fuzzy microphone that looks like you are sporting a chest hirsute on steroids, or a very fuzzy caterpillar about to attack your Adam's apple. The 1950's CIA black rim glasses could also go into the garbage pail.

The original name of the porta nigra in the roman time was porta martis. It is named by the roman god of war, mars. I live since 67 years in Trier.

Hey guy, two things to consider. First, years ago engineers believed, incorrectly, that a bend in a bridge somehow made it more stable. The McKinley Bridge a few miles south has a similar bend. Second, the reason old bridges were so narrow was because cars were narrow and low, in the 1920s. Cars had a double wide front seat. This made bridges obsolete. In 1970 a Chevy pickup truck would hold four grown men in the front seat. Yours was an interesting topic.

Enjoyed it Const. Critique - more trivia Look forward to more vidjas

Thankyou. This was interesting. I have been to Trier and it is one of my favorite Germans cities and have seen the Roman influence, but had no idea of how importanr the city was to Rome.

I don’t call it bookended, but sandwiched. Biden’s presidency is sandwiched between two Trump terms.

Very beautifully restored. Great video.

Thanks for doing this video. I've been to Trier and found it fascinating. When I mention it to my American friends , I get blank stares. Nobody has heard of it.

Another great one! We won't use the table next time we use green screen 😉

Very nice video. That era is one I don't know a lot about.

The carving of the president's is my favorite!

I didn’t know his grandfather was a president too. Interesting!

I wonder if that comforter on the bed is the real one that he used, or if it’s fake. It’s pretty cool!

100k inhabitants

It's obvious that you had done quite a bit of research for this video. FYI ! You miss stated a couple of major points. In 1929, cars of that day were much smaller. The roadway lanes of that era were much narrower. Think Ford Model T's and Model A's. They were significantly narrower and shorter than cars of the 1960's and 70's. Also, major bridges of that era very often had curves designed in for structural integrity reasons that are no longer evident or needed with modern engineering design methods.

Uhm French don't really have German ancestors. The Franks were always a extremly small minority, so small they spoke latin already in the second (to latest (th generation) generation.

What is the fuzzy thing on his throat, is it a growth?

I would have thought that the largest city north of Rome was Milan which was the western capital.

I've ridden my bike across that bridge after a ride across Missouri. The story I've read about the bend in the bridge was that the steamboat captains insisted upon it because the didn't like the bridge crossing the river at an angle. They considered it unsafe.

Beautiful!Its a putzen,when it must close!

Its a pity!!😮😢

Lovely video, well done… maybe one suggestion: if you could raise your prompter from which you are reading closer to eye level, I think it would look better

It wasn’t the biggest city north of Rome. Aquileia and Mediolanum were bigger. Augusta Treverorum was the biggest city north of the Alps.

I didn't learn something new :/

Translation of its name: "City of Augustus in the land of the Treverer". Greetings from Trier, and thanks for this video of my beloved home town ❤

I’m from Trier but I learned more than I expected

''The is very little left for us today'' There are countless Roman ruins across 3 continents.

We don’t need you onscreen. Voice over only or wi Dow at best.

Its always funny to me how these mid tier german cities used to be some of the most important cities in the western world, like Aachen or Paderborn

Me and my daughter visited briefly in 2015. We were very very entertained by a Google review of the baths that recommended not wasting one's time on those ruins, because there are many other far more picturesque Roman bath ruins elsewhere in the Mediterranean world.

Good video, thank you

Thats where my mother is from :)

Constantine was born in Trier, and the front gate is known as "Porta Nigra." By the way, you forgot the Sarcophagus on the streets.

Great vid. But a few seconds more for the amphitheatre and church? And somehow your hand movement is not synced to your speech. please just keep your hands still.

Excellent. Have been there.

I think you switched the numbers, 50 k than, today its population is more at 118000

The question of how much of Rome we can still see today is also greatly determined by what states you acknoledge as real roman. With the "Byzantine" empire for example, you had an empire that, granted, mostly spoke Greek, but that was legally Rome, not a successor of it, literally what was left of the Rome we always think of. You can still see the Roman walls of Constantinople and the Hagia Sofia for example. And if you accept the HRE as Roman, then there is even way way more left of course.

How could you not mention the Roman Amphitheater that could hold 20k spectators and also has an underground area below the floor.

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Videos about other Roman cities in the modern world may be an area to explore, for example: Augsburg in Bavaria.

0:40 specifically how small are we talking? 5', less?