Trier, Germany Travel, Hotels, Attractions, Flights

Trier is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle River. It is the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 AD. Trier is not the only city claiming to be Germany's oldest, but it is the only one that bases this assertion on having the longest history as a city (as opposed to a mere settlement or army camp)..

Attractions

Trier is well known for its well-preserved Roman and medieval buildings, which include:

the Porta Nigra, the best preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps;
ruins of three Roman baths, among them the largest Roman baths north of the Alps;
the huge Constantine Basilica, a basilica in the original Roman sense, being the 67 m long throne hall of Roman Emperor Constantine; it is today used as a Protestant church.
the Trier Cathedral (German: Trierer Dom or Dom St. Peter), which dates back to Roman times and is home to the Holy Tunic, a garment that presumably goes back to the robe Jesus was wearing when he died. It is only exhibited every few decades, at irregular intervals.
the Liebfrauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), which is one of the most important early Gothic cathedrals in Germany and follows into the architectural tradition of the French Gothic cathedrals;
the Roman amphitheatre;
the Roman bridge across the Moselle River, which is the oldest bridge north of the Alps still crossed by traffic;
St. Matthew Abbey (German: Abtei St. Matthias), a still-in-use monastery in whose medieval church the only apostle north of the Alps is held to be buried

Other edifices of interest include:

the church of St. Paulin, which is one of the most important Baroque churches in Rhineland-Palatinate and may have been in parts designed by the famous architect Balthasar Neumann
the two old treadwheel cranes, the so called "Old Crane" or the "Trierian Moselle Crane", a Gothic time building from 1413, and the Baroque crane from 1774 called the (old) "Customs Crane", also called the "Younger Moselle Crane".

Museums

Rheinisches Landesmuseum (one of the two most important German archaeological museums for the Roman period, along with the Römisch-Germanisches Museum in Cologne)
Städtisches Museum Simeonstift (history of Trier, displaying among other exhibits a model of the medieval city)
Toy Museum of Trier
Fell Exhibition Slate Mine; site in the municipality of Fell, 20 kilometers from Trier, containing an underground mine, a mine museum, and a slate mining trail

Miscellaneous

Trier is the oldest seat of a Christian bishop north of the Alps. In the Middle Ages, the Archbishop of Trier was an important ecclesiastical prince, controlling land from the French border to the Rhine. He was also one of the seven electors of the Holy Roman Empire.
Trier is also the birthplace of the influential philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx. The Karl-Marx-Haus is the house where he was born. It was opened in 1947 and





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