Romans around Nuremberg?

[Carlton Bach]

HI

I may have the opportunity to spend several days in Nuremberg this December, and aside from the great museums in said city I was hoping to squeeze in one or two day trips. Unfortunately, Nuremberg is still in deep Barbaricum, but I guess Regensburg is within day trip distance by rail. Can anyone point me to other places in the area that would be worth going to for their Roman content?

Thanks

[Flavius Promotus]

Hi Carlton,
Weissenburg is still in Frankonia - nice excavations.
Regensburg is about one hour by train from Nuremberg, and you reach the History museum with a nice Roman department within 15 minutes of walking (plus there are remnants of the legionary fortress).
Straubing is about 20 minutes from Regensburg by Train, and the (small) museum has a nice display of cavalry sports masks (for riders and horses).

The distance to Augsburg is higher, but they a few real goodies in their Roman museum.

Greets,
Florian

[Jona Lendering]

If you can rent a car, you may like the Limes Museum at Aalen, which is about an hour away: [url:188wwxcb]http://www.livius.org/a/germany/aalen/aalen.html[/url]. Close by is the open air museum of [url:188wwxcb]http://www.livius.org/a/germany/rainau/rainau.html[/url].

[Uwe Bahr]

Hi Volker,

in addition to Flavius' remarks I can highly recommend Weißenburg to You, I've been there in 2002. Standing at the reconstructed North gate of the castrum Biriciana was a great impression, the whole area of the castrum is not covered by modern buildings. Also there are two further places of interest - the Roman baths and the museum. You can find there several military items, for example the famous beautiful helmet of Theilenhofen, some face mask helmets, the Weißenburg treasure, a folding chair - have a look at this site:

[url:1pn0og43]http://romanhistorybooksandmore.freeservers.com/p_we_b.htm[/url]

Greets - Uwe