Same here, Lisa. I was born and raised in Trier, had to leave at the age of 25 because of an employment. But ever since then, no matter where life took me, I am so so homesick, and when I saw the video, it made my eyes wet........ *smiles and blushes
It is really interesting how other people view Trier compared to locals. I'm like "Ah yes and through the Porta again for the 50th time this year already just to get to the Uni" and others are like "wow the Porta is so impressive and Trier is so beautiful". Makes one think about what we take for granted sometimes
@@OurStorytoTell We were there in 2018. Stayed in Cochem. Visited Berg Eltz (of course.) But were pleasantly surprised when we visited Schloss Burresheim - A more real castle - less touristy.
Trier is lovely! Especially with a nice Kappes Teerdisch and a nice Riesling! Love the Kartoffelkiste and the Weinhexe! Weinhexe makes excellent Flammkuchen.
There is 2000 year-old border running through Germany. Trier was the big capital in Roman times, and has the best preserved ruins. The Romans did build and think on a bigger scale than anything the many small states that made up Germany built during the Middle Ages. If you know about it, you can also see lasting legacy in street layouts in the cities and the long straight Roman roads across the country.
Some Roman villas also had floor heating systems. They had a fireplace and had tubes built in the floor and walls and the hot air would flow through them and heat the place right up. Old Venice has something pretty close to a digital clock (from the 15th century I think). Blows my mind what those old civilizations were capable of. Not just the Romans, of course. Great video. Thanks for taking us all along for the ride :D
I love Trier. The buildings are only one part of the whole experience. For me, what is most fascinating is their stories and there are so many of them behind each and every building in this city. It's really worthwhile to do the tours and learn about all the anecdotes, historical background and legends from more than 2000 years of history. It's amazing. Like the devil himself who allegedly helped building the cathedral because the citizens had convinced him that it was going to be a massive tavern and when he found out the true purpose he wanted to destroy it by throwing at it from the sky the last granite pillar that he had just carried to the construction site - but he missed due to heavenly intervention. And this very pillar lies there beside the entry to this day. Or another story (which is more historically accurate) and which explains why one of the front towers of the cathedral is higher than the other. It's basically because of the ever-lasting rivalry between citizens and the clergy within the city of Trier. The citizens built their own church near the market place and it was meant to be higher than the cathedral to show the might and independence of wealthy citizens. The arch bishop wouldn't accept that, however had only enough money to top up one of his cathedral towers. Oh, and btw, the cathedral is built on the foundations of the old palace building of the mother Helena of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great (and actually one of the walls of the cathedral is still the original from the palace). And legend has it that Napoleon blew off the bell tower of the Porta Nigra that had been turned into a church in the Middle Ages (he did not actually afaik, but it was a nice story to symbolize his quest for secularisation). And there actually was a monk, Simeon, who decided to live a life of sacrifice and had himself imprisoned inside the wall of Porta Nigra without food or water until he died. He, obviously, became a saint in the catholic church for doing that, just because ;) Btw, on the opposite side of the Roman city there also was a Porta Alba ("white gate") but it was used as a quarry to build other stuff in later centuries after the Romans had left and so there is nothing left to see today. And did you know the Basilika was the throne room of the Roman emperor and when the Roman empire fell apart it is suspected to have been used as a wind shielded grazing ground for cattle by the Germanic tribes that had invaded the city. Later it was rebuilt into a fortress at a time when Trier had two rival arch bishops who fought each other within the city. And then it became a military hospital and then part of the prince-elect palace and then a church. There would be so much more to tell but I'll stop here :D
I live in Trier. It´s very interesting to see how other people expercience it, especially since you take all of this for granted when you see it every day.
I was absolutely shocked that there are people actually wanting to explore trier, I live in a small town somewhere around trier and trier is like something so normal for me, it’s just a city for me. That kinda blows my mind.
Oh man, it's the wrong season to visit Trier. It's an absolut summer town. I'm visiting once a year. Lived there for a while and now I have to come back regularly
if you want to explore more Romans in Germany make a visit to Xanten, with it roman city Colonia Ulpia Traiana. the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and a Archaeological Park and Open Air Museum
@@OurStorytoTell The Netherlands are just around the corner . Not far from Xanten is Kalkar , and Wunderland Kalkar , a Family park . but it is closed until April 9th
Actually i am from Luxembourg, having lived 10 years in Trier and now living in the Trier region. Thank you for your devotion and especially for the last couple of videos about my former and current home. Cheers to your channel, i have been following you nearly since the beginning.
It means so much seeing comments from our long time followers!! Thanks for sticking with us 😊 There’s still more to come from your region so stay tuned! We had to document it all because it was beautiful!
As far as I know: The round tubes in the wall are ventilation pipes for the airflow inside the area. Good for breathing while using the fire torches in the dark underground ... :)
Hi guys, must have really impressiv and felt heaven for you who are so interested in history and architecture going back in history so far. Yes, it always impress me as well to see such buildings build over hundreds of years ago especially from the todays technology point of view. How did they, how much effort was involved ? You will find lots of "leftovers" in Germany from the roman empire and all of them are well worth to preserve. Well, the romans brought in lots of building technics such for houses, streets/roads and water transport and water usage. More and main areas to discover are in cologne and Xanten. I hope you followed the lovely Mosel valley afterwards, may be with a sidestep to Idar-Oberstein which is the center of the precicious gemstone and jewelry industry known for more than 500 years. I wish you all a nice weekend and thanks for showing us.
@@OurStorytoTell Of course, wouldnt expect something else and highly appreciate your interest for my home country which you obviously enjoy. Sadly Willa will not remember but all is very well documented.
I lived over 31 years right outside of Trier, in Welschbillig. Trier is my home basically. I was married to a German girl from Welschbillig. My 3 boys live there. My oldest is a Firefighter for Trier. this video brought back so many memories. I live in Clearwater, Florida almost 4 years now.
You probably missed (at 3:08) the Konstantin-Basilika. It was build in 310 ac by cesar constantine. Constantine had some meetings with his people there (Thronsaal). It is almost original.
Yepp, the ancient Romans were absolutely amazing architects. Roman bathing was an essential part of everyday life, not just for nobles but for the common citizen as well. The ancient public baths throughout Rome are astounding constructions even by modern standards. Central heating both for the water, and even the floors and walls was fairly common in more northern latitudes. Air ducts vented the hot exhaust from the fires through the walls. What you have seen in those pipes might have been some of those air ducts. I presume those pipes were part of the original construction. If those were not air ducts it might have been water pipes. The Romans often brought water via aqueducts to their large cities. Rome had sewage canals underneath the city, making it a much cleaner city for its time than many other cities even a millenium later. The Cloaca Maxima underneath Rome still exists today in parts.
we were on a school trip in trier with my latin class. it was right in summer though and we had like 40 degrees while having a sightseeing tour :/ Also, we went to the Amphitheater and there is actually a group of guys who train like gladiators and put on shows and events
We live close to Salt Lake City. 😊 It’s beautiful being surrounded by mountains! I am German, though. (Born in Trier, went to school there…) Enjoy your time in Germany!
Trier was from 293 to 401 home of some roman emperors, who mainly lived there and extended the city to their imperial expectations. Not only Julius G. Cesar was murdered, also some other imperators and Trier was a safe place for imperators,. Roman histoy writer also noted that Rome was very stinky in the summer and the baths dirty. Trier had fresh air and clean baths wich was also a good argument.
Your videos are a great inspiration for me as a German looking for places to travel to (without having to fly). ☺️👍 A combined trip to Luxembourg and Trier is actually on my list. 😀
Trier is really beautyful and well situated relatively close to Luxemburg, Belgium and France. Real estate prices though biggest raisers in Germany, mainly due to expensive Luxemburg city being very close, so people try to live in Trier while working on the "bank plateau" in Luxemburg. For non locals the luxemburgisch and trier region dialects are hardly to tell apart. very close. Trier is said to be the oldest city in Germany... alongside Cologne, Mainz and Xanten one of the major hot spots for roman history.. most of the cities along the westside of the Rhine between Speyer and Xanten have roman history.... so when heading back Speyer and the Speyer cathedral is an option as well as Mainz with the famous Chagall windows in St. Stephan church... take care
yep, kaiserdom in Speyer almost 1000 years old. check out the crypt. oh, and there is a mcdonalds in a historic building in walking distance from the Dom....
Hmm... In Trier there is also a nice museum in the birthhouse of Karl Marx... For roman history in Germany you can also visit Xanten, less for the nice church there and more for the giant "archiological park", wich partially reconstructed a smaller roman city in its original place.
Can I sneak myself into your backpack? This week and last, two of my favourite places, that are unfortunately quite far from where I live, so I’ve loved seeing these videos. I have sung an opera concert with an orchestra in that amphitheater. It. Was. Incredible.
Well, its me again. You missed many buildings with roman structures. And beyond the market and some KM away in direction LUX you find in a villgage a house and a church, that have remainings of a roman palace. And some KM more youfind in the village Igel the famous Igeler Säule - a tomb thats in so good state, that only the eagle on top the monument has been damaged. And directly beyond the border you´ll find remainings of a late roman fortress. With a small romain church. There´re many reasons, to come back for a second visit! Cheers, Holger
your camera makes everything look bigger :D i am from Trier and from where you are standing to the cathedral it is definitely not as far as in the video. its just like a couple of steps...I like your video though :)
What a great place to visit ! And the Roman architects built really sturdy stuff ! If such aspects are of interest to you, you may want to research the 95 km long "pipe" (römische Wasserleitung") they constructed to provide drinking water to Cologne. Engineering-wise, the fact they figured out how to construct this through a very hilly landscape only using gravity is more than impressive even by today's standards. Some remains of it still exist today. While most tourists such as yourselves visit Trier for its historic buildings, in pre-Corona times, there were also lots of Chinese visitors typically more interested in Trier being the birthplace of Karl Marx. The house where he was born is a museum today.
The roman bath culture was an important part of roman living. They inherited this culture from the greek. So it is older than any citty in Germany 😃. You still kann have an impression in a turkisch hamam. The Hamam is a more ore less direkt copy of a roman bath. For example a Hamam has a calderium (hot steam room) like roman bath.
Small notice: The title of "Germany's oldest city" is a little bit disputed. There are cities of Celtic origin in the south which predate the Roman invasion (around 15 BC), but their date of foundation is not as well documented as that of Augusta Treverorum (Trier). The first Roman bridge over river Mosel at Trier was built around 17 BC, which is mostly assumed to be the foundation date even if the first written mention was decades later. Like Augusta Vindelicum (Augsburg, founded as military camp during the Roman invasion around 15 BC) and Augusta Raurica (Augst, southern bank of the High Rhine in Switzerland, founded 44 BC according to Roman sources) it is named after Imperator Augustus, the successor of Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar had during his Gaul campaign also built two bridges over the Rhine to attack marauding German tribes and to support his German allies, the Ubians; the first 55 BC between Andernach (which existed at the time as Celtic oppidum Antunnacum) and Neuwied, the second two years later nearby. Around 20 AD a Roman castrum was erected next to Antunnacum. The Ubians (which provided then bodyguards to the Roman emperors) were resettled by Augustus' general Agrippa around today Cologne and Bonn in a region formerly settled by the defeated Eburones. The Oppidum Ubiorum was founded arounded 38 BC; in 16 AD Iulia Agrippina was born here as daughter of general Germanicus; she became wife of emperor Claudius and mother of Nero. She gave Oppidum Ubiorum the status of Roman Colonia under the name of Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensum (CCAA, which was in later times abbreviated to Colonia and then Cologne). The former West German capital Bonn was also founded by the resettled Ubians, but in 18 BC Romans first built a auxiliary fort, expanded to a regular castrum in 12 BC (as one of the 50 Roman castra built by Nero Claudius Drusus on order of Augustus along the Rhine river to prepare for a full-scale invasion into Germania Magna). This castrum was further expanded and fortified in 9 AD after the defeat of Varus. The name 'Bonna' was first mentioned by Tacitus. There are many other cities like Koblenz (Castellum apud Confluentes), Mainz (Mogontiacum), Neuss (Novaesium), Speyer (Novomagus), Xanten (Vetera / Colonia Ulpia Traiana), which started out as Roman castra built between 50 BC and 10 BC. Borbetomagus (Worms) was a pre-Roman Celtic oppidum; the Romans resettled people of an allied German tribe, the Vangiones here (around 14 BC), Borbetomagnus became the capital of the Civitas Vangionum. Some people claim Worms to be the oldest city in Germany because the first Celtic settlement here goes back to around 5000 BC, but it is not clear if the place was settled consistently for the whole time. Kempten was first mentioned as Kandobounon (Cambodunum) by Greek geographer Strabo (born 64 BC, died AD 24). It was the capital of the Celtic Estions (a tribe within the Celtic Vindelici people) and conquered 15 BC by Roman generals Drusus and Tiberius. Bregenz in today Austria was the capital of the Brigantii, also mentioned by Strabo, and founded in the 5th century BC. After a series of battles in 15 BC (including naval battles), the Romans conquered Brigantion and the city became a Roman castrum. It was conferred the status of a municipality (Brigantium) around 50 AD and was the seat of the Roman admiralty for Lacus Brigantinus (which is now known in English as Lake Constance after the Roman settlement at the other end of the lake, which became later the episcopal seat of the regions north and west of the lake, and in German as Bodensee after the Kaiserpfalz Bodan = imperial palace/palatinate Bodan).
fragt sich nur ob man diese vorrömischen keltischen Besiedlungen "Stadt" nennen könnte... ja keiner weiß es genau.... aber die römischen Bauten in Trier lassen zumindest hier den Begriff "Stadt" wohl zutreffend sein.
@@dreasbn Die Porta Nigra wurde allerdings erst ab 170 n.Chr. errichtet (und nie fertiggestellt), also etwa um die gleiche Zeit, als Regensburg nach der Zerstörung durch die Markomannen wiederaufgebaut wurde. Auch die anderen ältesten Trier Bauten stammen aus dem 2. Jahrhundert. Einige der keltischen Oppida (also befestigte Siedlungen) hatten für damalige Verhältnisse durchaus die Ausmaße einer Stadt, auch wenn Rom ihnen keine Stadtrechte erteilt hatte.
na, das hast Du alles schön erklärt, aber Deine Sichtweise scheint mir doch recht einseitig - fake news lassen grüßen: Caesar hat "unprovoziert" Gallien überfallen und erobert, um es ausbeuten zu können, insbesondere die Silberminen waren sein Ziel! Gallien wurde nicht erobert, um die "Zivilisation" auszubreiten; dann von "marauding German tribes" zu sprechen - ts, ts, ts! Da bist Du der Siegerpropaganda erlegen! Das passiert ungebrochen heute noch, siehe "Entnazifizierung der Ukraine"! (google translator): Well, you explained everything nicely, but your point of view seems to me to be quite one-sided - fake news sends its regards: Caesar attacked and conquered Gaul "unprovoked" in order to be able to exploit it, the silver mines in particular were his goal! Gaul was not conquered to spread "civilization"; then to speak of "marauding German tribes" - ts, ts, ts! You succumbed to the winning propaganda! This is still happening today, see "Denazification of Ukraine"!
@@martinjunghofer3391 There were marauding bands of German warriors in Gaul. Even then. Some German tribes had a distinct "warrior culture" and also great interest in the valuable goods they could loot west of river Rhine. That was stopped by the Romans after they conquered Gaul and the upper Rhine valley as well as the regions south of river Danube and erected the provinces of Germania Inferior, Belgica, Germania Superior, Raetia and so on. There were however also tribes like the Ubians on the eastern side of river Rhine who were more interested in the technologies Roman engineers provided and became allies of the Romans, which gave them land in the West from which they had expelled the original settlers before, like Cologne and Bonna to the Ubians or Borbetomagus and Noviomagus to the Vangiones. After the migration period started and Rome was "distracted" by internal conflicts as well as external conflicts with its Asian neighbors, the raids started again and could not longer be prevented by the Roman fleets on Rhine and Danube (or the mostly weak guards at the Limes border). The tribes in Germania Magna constituted some new federations between them, one of them being the Alemanni (which included some tribes settling in Germania Superior also, but it is not clear, at what time they became officially Alemanni). In the first half of the 3rd century there were multiple Alemannian raids into Gaul; the Romans defeated the German warrior bands again and again (260 one at Milano and another at Augsburg), but eventually abdicated the Limes and the lands east and north of river Rhine. Some of the Roman places were destroyed then, others became Alemannian towns (especially such where some Romanized Germans lived before the conquest). And yes, as I said: It started all with an unprovoked Roman invasion of Gaul and the other Celtic regions (which covers nowadays Baden, Southern Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Austria and Swiss). This campaign(s) were however ideologically vindicated by being a "defence measure" against "bellicose" Celts (since there was a long history of Celts opposing Rome, sometimes invading Italy or allying with Rome's enemies) - even if (or because?) at the time they were not longer a danger to Roman hegemony.
Speechless for "a big church, so what?!" Or is this a Karnevalsjoke? - For cathedrals you should visit Aachen! Else Speyer is nice, Essen is cozy, others have some objects here and there (like the "Bleikammern" mummy-graves in Bremen), but all those "specials" are not too important...
Trier was capitol of the Roman Empire for quite some time. Constantine in fact set up a lot of the building programs in Trier and emulated his efforts for Constantinopel. I was very impressed with Trier when I visited the town last summer. But.. I was even more impressed with Potsdam, which unfortunately, is on the other side of Germany.
You really went to the most amazing places in Trier i can prove that, i am from Trier. But u probably missed some awesome places like the 'Mariensäule', which gives u an Amazing view over Trier. Maybe at another time. U may hook me up so i can show u the city if u want to. So next video about some wine-villages next to the mosel or a video about Koblenz?
I hope the second oldest (only by two years) city of Germany, Augsburg, is on your bucket list, too? We don't have huge Roman ruins like Trier, but some sights that are unique, like the first social housing project in history, the "Fuggerei", which just had its 500th anniversary. And our medieval water supply system is a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2019.
Hallo Petra , meine Mutter ist in Mehring geboren , also mit Moselwasser "getauft " . Eine schöne Gegend . Ich selbst bin zwar in Niedersachsen geboren und aufgewachsen , aber irgendwie liegt mir dieser Landstrich doch am Herzen . Leider bin ich zu selten dort .
Funny you pronounced "Porta Nigra" in an italian way. People from here only call it "Pochta" IPA: [pɔxta] Oh and in summer it even feels more like Italy, because they put up palm trees infront of the Porta Nigra :D
I am from trier and it is nice to see how foreign people think about the city! its really amazing, especially in summer :-)
Yay, Trier people on RUclips... Gruß aus Zewen!
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Trier 😍 Great to see my hometown through your eyes!
😍 So cool you live there!
Same here, Lisa. I was born and raised in Trier, had to leave at the age of 25 because of an employment. But ever since then, no matter where life took me, I am so so homesick, and when I saw the video, it made my eyes wet........ *smiles and blushes
It is really interesting how other people view Trier compared to locals. I'm like "Ah yes and through the Porta again for the 50th time this year already just to get to the Uni" and others are like "wow the Porta is so impressive and Trier is so beautiful".
Makes one think about what we take for granted sometimes
Ah ja die Pochta
as a local who's been born and raised in Trier its truly amazing to see something so normal for me through your eyes
I come from Trier, the city is so beautiful!
We loved Trier, Cochem and the entire Moselle Valley region of Germany.
Ahh same! When did you visit the region? 😊
@@OurStorytoTell We were there in 2018. Stayed in Cochem. Visited Berg Eltz (of course.) But were pleasantly surprised when we visited Schloss Burresheim - A more real castle - less touristy.
Trier is lovely! Especially with a nice Kappes Teerdisch and a nice Riesling! Love the Kartoffelkiste and the Weinhexe! Weinhexe makes excellent Flammkuchen.
I moved to trier a year and a half ago, so seeing this in my recommended made me chuckle.
Ah so fun! How do you like living in Trier?
Thanks for showing my hometown in that beautiful way. Take care
There is 2000 year-old border running through Germany. Trier was the big capital in Roman times, and has the best preserved ruins. The Romans did build and think on a bigger scale than anything the many small states that made up Germany built during the Middle Ages. If you know about it, you can also see lasting legacy in street layouts in the cities and the long straight Roman roads across the country.
Fun to see you guys in my home town. Hope you enjoyed Trier and Luxembourg
Some Roman villas also had floor heating systems. They had a fireplace and had tubes built in the floor and walls and the hot air would flow through them and heat the place right up. Old Venice has something pretty close to a digital clock (from the 15th century I think). Blows my mind what those old civilizations were capable of. Not just the Romans, of course. Great video. Thanks for taking us all along for the ride :D
I‘m from trier :)) feels good to see my city :)
Hey thanks! 😊 It was so fun to explore!
I am living in Trier my whole life. Great video 😍👍🏼
Aww you must love it then! Great to hear! Thanks for watching :)
@@OurStorytoTell Yes I do 😊💛💛
Ich auch, i living hier almost 20 years now 😀 sehr schön hier in Trier Germany bin so Frieden
I love Trier. The buildings are only one part of the whole experience. For me, what is most fascinating is their stories and there are so many of them behind each and every building in this city. It's really worthwhile to do the tours and learn about all the anecdotes, historical background and legends from more than 2000 years of history. It's amazing. Like the devil himself who allegedly helped building the cathedral because the citizens had convinced him that it was going to be a massive tavern and when he found out the true purpose he wanted to destroy it by throwing at it from the sky the last granite pillar that he had just carried to the construction site - but he missed due to heavenly intervention. And this very pillar lies there beside the entry to this day.
Or another story (which is more historically accurate) and which explains why one of the front towers of the cathedral is higher than the other. It's basically because of the ever-lasting rivalry between citizens and the clergy within the city of Trier. The citizens built their own church near the market place and it was meant to be higher than the cathedral to show the might and independence of wealthy citizens. The arch bishop wouldn't accept that, however had only enough money to top up one of his cathedral towers. Oh, and btw, the cathedral is built on the foundations of the old palace building of the mother Helena of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great (and actually one of the walls of the cathedral is still the original from the palace).
And legend has it that Napoleon blew off the bell tower of the Porta Nigra that had been turned into a church in the Middle Ages (he did not actually afaik, but it was a nice story to symbolize his quest for secularisation). And there actually was a monk, Simeon, who decided to live a life of sacrifice and had himself imprisoned inside the wall of Porta Nigra without food or water until he died. He, obviously, became a saint in the catholic church for doing that, just because ;) Btw, on the opposite side of the Roman city there also was a Porta Alba ("white gate") but it was used as a quarry to build other stuff in later centuries after the Romans had left and so there is nothing left to see today.
And did you know the Basilika was the throne room of the Roman emperor and when the Roman empire fell apart it is suspected to have been used as a wind shielded grazing ground for cattle by the Germanic tribes that had invaded the city. Later it was rebuilt into a fortress at a time when Trier had two rival arch bishops who fought each other within the city. And then it became a military hospital and then part of the prince-elect palace and then a church.
There would be so much more to tell but I'll stop here :D
Thanks fro the review. We're going there this weekend.
Have a blast!! 😊 You’ll love it!
Trier brings back so many memories. I loved visiting this city.
I m from trier euren and Trier is a nice City
I live in Trier. It´s very interesting to see how other people expercience it, especially since you take all of this for granted when you see it every day.
We loved our time there and can’t imagine living in such a city 😊
I live in Trier and I really like it😇
Great video thanks for sharing
I was absolutely shocked that there are people actually wanting to explore trier, I live in a small town somewhere around trier and trier is like something so normal for me, it’s just a city for me. That kinda blows my mind.
I bet it feels kind of weird when it’s a normal thing for you! We hope you enjoyed the video anyway😊
Gotta go back and watch the Müllertal video. I‘ve spent several vacations camping in Bollendorf and hiking the region. 🥰🥰🥰
Yes you will have to! We can’t imagine how beautiful it would be in the summer! Sounds amazing 😍
yay, finally! my hometown. hope you had a great time in Trier
Finally is right! 😊 Loved it!! More to come in nearby regions- stay tuned!!
Wow 👏 . Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watching! 😊
Very cool. Some of those images remind me of walking through the Forum Romanum in Rome.
Ahh we hope to do that someday! How cool you had that opportunity! 😊
It's so great what you are doing! You are a very lovely and sympathetic family! Greetings from Schleswig, high north of germany. :)
Oh thanks for the kind words Julian! We are happy to have you here watching 😊
Oh man, it's the wrong season to visit Trier. It's an absolut summer town. I'm visiting once a year. Lived there for a while and now I have to come back regularly
Ah man! Guess we will have to go back… bummer!😉
if you want to explore more Romans in Germany make a visit to Xanten, with it roman city Colonia Ulpia Traiana. the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and a Archaeological Park and Open Air Museum
Thanks for the suggestions! ❤️
@@OurStorytoTell The Netherlands are just around the corner . Not far from Xanten is Kalkar , and Wunderland Kalkar , a Family park . but it is closed until April 9th
Aww, my old stomping ground, I studied in Trier eons ago 😊 The Roman buildings really are impressive, that's for sure. So glad you enjoyed it!
So cool you used to live there! Definitely an amazing city! 😊
Wonderful tour.
Actually i am from Luxembourg, having lived 10 years in Trier and now living in the Trier region. Thank you for your devotion and especially for the last couple of videos about my former and current home. Cheers to your channel, i have been following you nearly since the beginning.
It means so much seeing comments from our long time followers!! Thanks for sticking with us 😊 There’s still more to come from your region so stay tuned! We had to document it all because it was beautiful!
@@OurStorytoTell looking forward to seeing your next videos keep up the good work.
Really nice vid! 🌞
You guys should come to Koblenz, the jewel of the Rhineland!
I live by Trier and it is beautiful.
Im from Trier too! I am actually very surprised seeing a Video like this in my recommended lol
So cool! Well we hope you enjoyed it 😊
I love my Trier ❤
Trier is such a special place! We can see why!
As far as I know: The round tubes in the wall are ventilation pipes for the airflow inside the area. Good for breathing while using the fire torches in the dark underground ... :)
My Hometown 😍
I hope you enjoyed it!!! 💯
Down there was the supply for the roman bath. The water, the hot air for the floor heating. The chambers where they met where above the earth.
Hi guys, must have really impressiv and felt heaven for you who are so interested in history and architecture going back in history so far. Yes, it always impress me as well to see such buildings build over hundreds of years ago especially from the todays technology point of view. How did they, how much effort was involved ? You will find lots of "leftovers" in Germany from the roman empire and all of them are well worth to preserve. Well, the romans brought in lots of building technics such for houses, streets/roads and water transport and water usage. More and main areas to discover are in cologne and Xanten. I hope you followed the lovely Mosel valley afterwards, may be with a sidestep to Idar-Oberstein which is the center of the precicious gemstone and jewelry industry known for more than 500 years. I wish you all a nice weekend and thanks for showing us.
We did continue our journey in the Mosel so stay tuned 😊😉
@@OurStorytoTell Of course, wouldnt expect something else and highly appreciate your interest for my home country which you obviously enjoy. Sadly Willa will not remember but all is very well documented.
I lived over 31 years right outside of Trier, in Welschbillig. Trier is my home basically. I was married to a German girl from Welschbillig. My 3 boys live there. My oldest is a Firefighter for Trier. this video brought back so many memories. I live in Clearwater, Florida almost 4 years now.
That is so fun to hear about your connection to Trier! 💛 Florida sounds pretty nice too. 😊
I come from and live in Trier and have relatives in Clearwater. What a funny coincidence ☺️
Thx for representing my hometown! 😍
You probably missed (at 3:08) the Konstantin-Basilika. It was build in 310 ac by cesar constantine. Constantine had some meetings with his people there (Thronsaal). It is almost original.
Greetings from Trier :-) I live here
So cool! Such a cool city! 😊
I have not been to Trier yet, but it is definitely on my bucket list!
We hope you make it! 😊 Where are you from?
@@OurStorytoTell I am from Germany, but Trier is about 5 hours away from were I grew up so I have not had the chance to visit there yet
Never thought i would see a travel vid of my hometown on yt lol
Now you have! 😉
Yepp, the ancient Romans were absolutely amazing architects. Roman bathing was an essential part of everyday life, not just for nobles but for the common citizen as well.
The ancient public baths throughout Rome are astounding constructions even by modern standards.
Central heating both for the water, and even the floors and walls was fairly common in more northern latitudes. Air ducts vented the hot exhaust from the fires through the walls.
What you have seen in those pipes might have been some of those air ducts.
I presume those pipes were part of the original construction. If those were not air ducts it might have been water pipes. The Romans often brought water via aqueducts to their large cities.
Rome had sewage canals underneath the city, making it a much cleaner city for its time than many other cities even a millenium later. The Cloaca Maxima underneath Rome still exists today in parts.
my Fav. City, i live 45 min. away from there in Idar -Oberstein a only 1000 yo town
Awesome! 👋 to you! 😊
Lovley footage & Video. Have a Great week 🥰
Thx for introducing my town 😊
Nice video off my hometown
Hey thanks! So fun you live there! 😍
we were on a school trip in trier with my latin class. it was right in summer though and we had like 40 degrees while having a sightseeing tour :/ Also, we went to the Amphitheater and there is actually a group of guys who train like gladiators and put on shows and events
So interesting they do that! I’m sure it would be cool to see. 😊
The romans had public thermal baths already at 400 b.c., 11 of them in Rome alone. Along with those they left us city walls, city gates and aqueducts.
Amazing! Love this adventure! The cathedral is beautiful ❤️.
We thought so too! 😍
So nice to see Trier from far away! (Utah to be more precise)
Eeekk a fellow Utahn!! 👏👏 Love to hear that! Where in our home state do you live? 💛
We live close to Salt Lake City. 😊 It’s beautiful being surrounded by mountains! I am German, though. (Born in Trier, went to school there…) Enjoy your time in Germany!
Trier is my go to shopping city...its only 40 mins away and the nearest city.
Trier was from 293 to 401 home of some roman emperors, who mainly lived there and extended the city to their imperial expectations. Not only Julius G. Cesar was murdered, also some other imperators and Trier was a safe place for imperators,. Roman histoy writer also noted that Rome was very stinky in the summer and the baths dirty. Trier had fresh air and clean baths wich was also a good argument.
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3:17 where is that? Great video btw, Trier is probably my favourite city
Your videos are a great inspiration for me as a German looking for places to travel to (without having to fly). ☺️👍
A combined trip to Luxembourg and Trier is actually on my list. 😀
Hey looks like we were thinking the same then! 😊 Happy to hear it helps!
Trier is really beautyful and well situated relatively close to Luxemburg, Belgium and France. Real estate prices though biggest raisers in Germany, mainly due to expensive Luxemburg city being very close, so people try to live in Trier while working on the "bank plateau" in Luxemburg. For non locals the luxemburgisch and trier region dialects are hardly to tell apart. very close. Trier is said to be the oldest city in Germany... alongside Cologne, Mainz and Xanten one of the major hot spots for roman history.. most of the cities along the westside of the Rhine between Speyer and Xanten have roman history.... so when heading back Speyer and the Speyer cathedral is an option as well as Mainz with the famous Chagall windows in St. Stephan church... take care
yep, kaiserdom in Speyer almost 1000 years old. check out the crypt. oh, and there is a mcdonalds in a historic building in walking distance from the Dom....
Btw the 'Basilica of Constantine' @03:11 is also Roman.
Hmm... In Trier there is also a nice museum in the birthhouse of Karl Marx... For roman history in Germany you can also visit Xanten, less for the nice church there and more for the giant "archiological park", wich partially reconstructed a smaller roman city in its original place.
Thanks for the info! 😊
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Can I sneak myself into your backpack? This week and last, two of my favourite places, that are unfortunately quite far from where I live, so I’ve loved seeing these videos. I have sung an opera concert with an orchestra in that amphitheater. It. Was. Incredible.
Yes come join us on our travels! 😉 Always love your comments!
@@OurStorytoTell what a nice thing to say, thank you ❤️
Well, its me again. You missed many buildings with roman structures. And beyond the market and some KM away in direction LUX you find in a villgage a house and a church, that have remainings of a roman palace. And some KM more youfind in the village Igel the famous Igeler Säule - a tomb thats in so good state, that only the eagle on top the monument has been damaged. And directly beyond the border you´ll find remainings of a late roman fortress. With a small romain church. There´re many reasons, to come back for a second visit! Cheers, Holger
Just wowww, love ur Videos so much
Hey thank youuuu ❤️❤️
your camera makes everything look bigger :D i am from Trier and from where you are standing to the cathedral it is definitely not as far as in the video. its just like a couple of steps...I like your video though :)
Yes it is a wide lens so it fits a lot in it!
@@OurStorytoTell it looks really cool :)
What a great place to visit ! And the Roman architects built really sturdy stuff ! If such aspects are of interest to you, you may want to research the 95 km long "pipe" (römische Wasserleitung") they constructed to provide drinking water to Cologne. Engineering-wise, the fact they figured out how to construct this through a very hilly landscape only using gravity is more than impressive even by today's standards. Some remains of it still exist today.
While most tourists such as yourselves visit Trier for its historic buildings, in pre-Corona times, there were also lots of Chinese visitors typically more interested in Trier being the birthplace of Karl Marx. The house where he was born is a museum today.
Super interesting to hear about the birthplace of Karl Marx. Thanks for Your comment! 😊
The roman bath culture was an important part of roman living. They inherited this culture from the greek. So it is older than any citty in Germany 😃. You still kann have an impression in a turkisch hamam. The Hamam is a more ore less direkt copy of a roman bath. For example a Hamam has a calderium (hot steam room) like roman bath.
Hi, search on youtube --- Spoken Roman Latin, from TV Show "Barbarians" --- when the Roman Empire came to us. It started 2000 years ago.
Thanks for the suggestion! 😊
Small notice: The title of "Germany's oldest city" is a little bit disputed. There are cities of Celtic origin in the south which predate the Roman invasion (around 15 BC), but their date of foundation is not as well documented as that of Augusta Treverorum (Trier). The first Roman bridge over river Mosel at Trier was built around 17 BC, which is mostly assumed to be the foundation date even if the first written mention was decades later. Like Augusta Vindelicum (Augsburg, founded as military camp during the Roman invasion around 15 BC) and Augusta Raurica (Augst, southern bank of the High Rhine in Switzerland, founded 44 BC according to Roman sources) it is named after Imperator Augustus, the successor of Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar had during his Gaul campaign also built two bridges over the Rhine to attack marauding German tribes and to support his German allies, the Ubians; the first 55 BC between Andernach (which existed at the time as Celtic oppidum Antunnacum) and Neuwied, the second two years later nearby. Around 20 AD a Roman castrum was erected next to Antunnacum. The Ubians (which provided then bodyguards to the Roman emperors) were resettled by Augustus' general Agrippa around today Cologne and Bonn in a region formerly settled by the defeated Eburones. The Oppidum Ubiorum was founded arounded 38 BC; in 16 AD Iulia Agrippina was born here as daughter of general Germanicus; she became wife of emperor Claudius and mother of Nero. She gave Oppidum Ubiorum the status of Roman Colonia under the name of Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensum (CCAA, which was in later times abbreviated to Colonia and then Cologne). The former West German capital Bonn was also founded by the resettled Ubians, but in 18 BC Romans first built a auxiliary fort, expanded to a regular castrum in 12 BC (as one of the 50 Roman castra built by Nero Claudius Drusus on order of Augustus along the Rhine river to prepare for a full-scale invasion into Germania Magna). This castrum was further expanded and fortified in 9 AD after the defeat of Varus. The name 'Bonna' was first mentioned by Tacitus. There are many other cities like Koblenz (Castellum apud Confluentes), Mainz (Mogontiacum), Neuss (Novaesium), Speyer (Novomagus), Xanten (Vetera / Colonia Ulpia Traiana), which started out as Roman castra built between 50 BC and 10 BC.
Borbetomagus (Worms) was a pre-Roman Celtic oppidum; the Romans resettled people of an allied German tribe, the Vangiones here (around 14 BC), Borbetomagnus became the capital of the Civitas Vangionum. Some people claim Worms to be the oldest city in Germany because the first Celtic settlement here goes back to around 5000 BC, but it is not clear if the place was settled consistently for the whole time.
Kempten was first mentioned as Kandobounon (Cambodunum) by Greek geographer Strabo (born 64 BC, died AD 24). It was the capital of the Celtic Estions (a tribe within the Celtic Vindelici people) and conquered 15 BC by Roman generals Drusus and Tiberius.
Bregenz in today Austria was the capital of the Brigantii, also mentioned by Strabo, and founded in the 5th century BC. After a series of battles in 15 BC (including naval battles), the Romans conquered Brigantion and the city became a Roman castrum. It was conferred the status of a municipality (Brigantium) around 50 AD and was the seat of the Roman admiralty for Lacus Brigantinus (which is now known in English as Lake Constance after the Roman settlement at the other end of the lake, which became later the episcopal seat of the regions north and west of the lake, and in German as Bodensee after the Kaiserpfalz Bodan = imperial palace/palatinate Bodan).
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fragt sich nur ob man diese vorrömischen keltischen Besiedlungen "Stadt" nennen könnte... ja keiner weiß es genau.... aber die römischen Bauten in Trier lassen zumindest hier den Begriff "Stadt" wohl zutreffend sein.
@@dreasbn Die Porta Nigra wurde allerdings erst ab 170 n.Chr. errichtet (und nie fertiggestellt), also etwa um die gleiche Zeit, als Regensburg nach der Zerstörung durch die Markomannen wiederaufgebaut wurde. Auch die anderen ältesten Trier Bauten stammen aus dem 2. Jahrhundert.
Einige der keltischen Oppida (also befestigte Siedlungen) hatten für damalige Verhältnisse durchaus die Ausmaße einer Stadt, auch wenn Rom ihnen keine Stadtrechte erteilt hatte.
na, das hast Du alles schön erklärt, aber Deine Sichtweise scheint mir doch recht einseitig - fake news lassen grüßen: Caesar hat "unprovoziert" Gallien überfallen und erobert, um es ausbeuten zu können, insbesondere die Silberminen waren sein Ziel! Gallien wurde nicht erobert, um die "Zivilisation" auszubreiten; dann von "marauding German tribes" zu sprechen - ts, ts, ts! Da bist Du der Siegerpropaganda erlegen! Das passiert ungebrochen heute noch, siehe "Entnazifizierung der Ukraine"!
(google translator): Well, you explained everything nicely, but your point of view seems to me to be quite one-sided - fake news sends its regards: Caesar attacked and conquered Gaul "unprovoked" in order to be able to exploit it, the silver mines in particular were his goal! Gaul was not conquered to spread "civilization"; then to speak of "marauding German tribes" - ts, ts, ts! You succumbed to the winning propaganda! This is still happening today, see "Denazification of Ukraine"!
@@martinjunghofer3391 There were marauding bands of German warriors in Gaul. Even then. Some German tribes had a distinct "warrior culture" and also great interest in the valuable goods they could loot west of river Rhine. That was stopped by the Romans after they conquered Gaul and the upper Rhine valley as well as the regions south of river Danube and erected the provinces of Germania Inferior, Belgica, Germania Superior, Raetia and so on. There were however also tribes like the Ubians on the eastern side of river Rhine who were more interested in the technologies Roman engineers provided and became allies of the Romans, which gave them land in the West from which they had expelled the original settlers before, like Cologne and Bonna to the Ubians or Borbetomagus and Noviomagus to the Vangiones. After the migration period started and Rome was "distracted" by internal conflicts as well as external conflicts with its Asian neighbors, the raids started again and could not longer be prevented by the Roman fleets on Rhine and Danube (or the mostly weak guards at the Limes border). The tribes in Germania Magna constituted some new federations between them, one of them being the Alemanni (which included some tribes settling in Germania Superior also, but it is not clear, at what time they became officially Alemanni). In the first half of the 3rd century there were multiple Alemannian raids into Gaul; the Romans defeated the German warrior bands again and again (260 one at Milano and another at Augsburg), but eventually abdicated the Limes and the lands east and north of river Rhine. Some of the Roman places were destroyed then, others became Alemannian towns (especially such where some Romanized Germans lived before the conquest).
And yes, as I said: It started all with an unprovoked Roman invasion of Gaul and the other Celtic regions (which covers nowadays Baden, Southern Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Austria and Swiss). This campaign(s) were however ideologically vindicated by being a "defence measure" against "bellicose" Celts (since there was a long history of Celts opposing Rome, sometimes invading Italy or allying with Rome's enemies) - even if (or because?) at the time they were not longer a danger to Roman hegemony.
Do not forget Köln (Cologne), the cathedral will leave you speechless :-)
We didn’t make it that trip, but will make it happen someday 😊
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Hope to see you here soon👋
Speechless for "a big church, so what?!" Or is this a Karnevalsjoke? - For cathedrals you should visit Aachen! Else Speyer is nice, Essen is cozy, others have some objects here and there (like the "Bleikammern" mummy-graves in Bremen), but all those "specials" are not too important...
All the Locals from Trier here in the Comments. Love it. :) my Hometown as well
Yes there is quite an incredible group of people who live there!! Next time we need to do a little meet up!!😊
The poster for wearing a mask from 7:00 on shows the guy wearing his mask over his EYES as well!
Lol didn’t notice that! 😂
Trier was capitol of the Roman Empire for quite some time. Constantine in fact set up a lot of the building programs in Trier and emulated his efforts for Constantinopel. I was very impressed with Trier when I visited the town last summer. But.. I was even more impressed with Potsdam, which unfortunately, is on the other side of Germany.
We are actually a lot closer to Potsdam so we will have to explore it! Thanks for bringing it back on our radar! 😊
Yay! You made it to Trier 😊
Finally right? 😊
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The algorithm is literally stalking where I’m living
wow you managed to make trier look nice, magic?
You should check out my birth city Augsburg. Its one of the oldest cities in the world and has to much rich history
Thanks for the suggestion 😊
You really went to the most amazing places in Trier i can prove that, i am from Trier. But u probably missed some awesome places like the 'Mariensäule', which gives u an Amazing view over Trier. Maybe at another time. U may hook me up so i can show u the city if u want to.
So next video about some wine-villages next to the mosel or a video about Koblenz?
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It's a great one!! :)
I hope the second oldest (only by two years) city of Germany, Augsburg, is on your bucket list, too? We don't have huge Roman ruins like Trier, but some sights that are unique, like the first social housing project in history, the "Fuggerei", which just had its 500th anniversary. And our medieval water supply system is a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2019.
Augsburg is not the second oldest city in Germany - it's number ten.
@@Andreas_Cologne Trier is founded 17 BC and Augsburg 15 BC. All other candidates either can't proof their claims or are younger.
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😃 Have a look at wiki 😃
I was there last July. What a beautiful City. And this amazing history...
Incredible! July sounds like such a great time to visit!
The place where Romans, Goths, and Huns live together
So crazy to think about!!
trier is my hometown haha
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Der Dom is 1270 Jahre alt. The cathedral is 1270 years old.
I live in Trier
Ah cool! How do you like it?
Yo bro at basilika i have kante gegeben really good over there
O I Love Trier ,Home from me Mom and Dad 🥰❤
Hallo Petra , meine Mutter ist in Mehring geboren , also mit Moselwasser "getauft " . Eine schöne Gegend . Ich selbst bin zwar in Niedersachsen geboren und aufgewachsen , aber irgendwie liegt mir dieser Landstrich doch am Herzen . Leider bin ich zu selten dort .
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So happy we made it here! And how cool you live in Trier!! 😍
So the gate is like 4 Marissas (new measurement unit) tall?
Hahah something like that 😂
I urge you to visit Leiwen and Trittenheim wine fields nearby and take a Möseltour by boat
Pretty nice there, but I would do a Moseltour in spring or autumn.
We have heard that Autumn is a great time so thanks for confirming it!😊
@@OurStorytoTell go there during the wine fests as they are great!!!
Just go twice😃
@@Andreas_Cologne we go twice each year and I love it. It’s like coming home.
Funny you pronounced "Porta Nigra" in an italian way. People from here only call it "Pochta" IPA: [pɔxta]
Oh and in summer it even feels more like Italy, because they put up palm trees infront of the Porta Nigra :D
Why didnt you checked the amphitheater right from above ?
We could have been wrong, but we think there was a fence blocking off the path to walk and see it from above… otherwise we were going to do that!
@@OurStorytoTell hm. You mean the street ? I guess thats very unlucky than
There's so many people from Trier in this comment section crazy!!
We know! We love it! 😂
Most of it is my daily 5-10 mins walk to work, worse places to live in the world. :D was a graveyard after the attack last year during covid...
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