Trier
city plan
Hauptmarkt
Trier sits in a hollow midway along the Moselle valley, with the most significant portion of the city on the right bank of the river. Wooded and vineyard-covered slopes stretch up to the Hunsrück plateaux in the South and the Eifel in the North. The border with the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg is some 15 km distant.
the foot of Constantine
Trier (French: Trèves; Luxembourgish: Tréier; Latin: Augusta Treverorum) is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle River. It is the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 BC. 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.
Constantine foot in Market square
Trier lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of ruddy sandstone in the
west of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, near the German border with
Luxembourg and within the important Mosel-Saar-Ruwer wine-growing region.
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, as the
Archbishopric of Trier controlled land from the French border to the Rhine. He
was also one of the seven electors of the Holy Roman Empire.
With an approximate population of 100,000, Trier was until 2005 ranked fourth
alongside Kaiserslautern among the state's largest cities, after Mainz,
Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Koblenz. The nearest large cities in Germany are
Saarbrücken, some 80 km southeast, and Koblenz, about 100 km northeast. The
closest city to Trier is the capital of Luxembourg, some 50 km to the southwest.
Trier is home to the University of Trier, the administration of the
Trier-Saarburg district and the seat of the ADD (Aufsichts- und
Dienstleistungsdirektion), which until 1999 was the borough authority of Trier.
It is one of the five "central places" of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Along with Luxembourg, Metz and Saarbrücken, fellow constituent members of the
QuattroPole union of cities, it also forms a central place of the greater region
encompassing Saar-Lor-Lux (Saarland, Lorraine and Luxembourg),
Rhineland-Palatinate and Wallonia.
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Karl Marx birth house
Roman bridge
Constantine column
Jewish synagogue
synagogue entrance
Barbara Roman Baths
now a city park
Constantine Basilica
now the Protestant "Church of our Savior"
UNESCO World Heritage site
its interior
celebrate 2007