Der Obergermanisch-Raetische Limes

The latest findings on the UNESCO World Heritage Site

The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes is the largest archaeological monument in Europe, stretching 550 km from the Rhine near Rheinbrohl through Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria to the Danube. It was part of an approx. 7,500 km long border system that stretched from Scotland to the Atlantic coast of Morocco and protected the Roman Empire at the time of its greatest expansion in the middle of the 2nd century AD.

The uniqueness of the combination of visible and buried monuments on the Upper German-Raetian Limes has attracted the interest of researchers from the 18th century to the present day and ensured that it was included on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005.
The exhibition focuses on the Limes sites in Rhineland-Palatinate, but also looks beyond the borders of the federal state.