Heidenmauer
Heidenmauer is a Roman wall in central Wiesbaden, stretching about 520 metres from Schulberg and Hirschgraben to Schlossplatz. The route bends at Langgasse and reaches the Market Church beside the square.
Two preserved sections, each about 50 metres long, stand on either side of the Römertor, making this Wiesbaden’s only visible Roman monument. Scholars have connected the wall with a military barrier, an unfinished fortification, or an aqueduct carrying Taunus spring water, but archaeological evidence confirms none of these purposes. Wood samples from its mortar indicate construction between 214 and 344 AD, earlier than Emperor Valentinian I’s reign from 364 to 375.
The Römertor took its present form in 1902 as a covered wooden bridge created during a street opening through the historic wall. Nearby, an open-air Roman museum displays copies of stone tablets discovered in Wiesbaden.
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