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North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Roman Strip Houses Marcomagus

North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Roman Strip Houses Marcomagus

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Roman Strip Houses Marcomagus

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Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel

Location: Nettersheim, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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February 17, 2025

Hiking

If you continue along the path from the temple complex of the Matron's Sanctuary, you will come across a settlement from Roman times on the way down. Only a few preserved or reconstructed foundation walls provide visible evidence of this.

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July 3, 2021

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For more information on the division of strip houses see de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streifenhaus_(r%C3%B6misch). There is a short film on YouTube about the use of a strip house, see

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Martin & Sabine neben der Spur

April 24, 2021

Hiking

It is worth taking a short detour across the field to the three reconstructed foundations and the associated information board. Here it is explained how astonishingly large the former settlement Marcomagus was, which stretched in dense development over a good 500m along the road into the Urttal.

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Elevation 490 m

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Location: Nettersheim, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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