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Igeler Säule (Roman Tomb)

Landkreis Trier-Saarburg

Igel

Igeler Säule (Roman Tomb)

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Igeler Säule (Roman Tomb)

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Location: Igel, Landkreis Trier-Saarburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Willem VS

August 7, 2023

The Igeler Säule is a Roman burial monument in the village of Igel on the Moselle. Apart from the Mainzer Drususstein, it is the only Roman funerary monument to have been preserved above ground in its original location north of the Alps since ancient times. The monument consists of a solid block foundation and a 23 meter high pillar with numerous reliefs. The reliefs depict scenes from the daily and professional life of the textile merchants, as well as from mythology and, like most ancient sculptures, were originally colorfully painted. At the beginning of scientific research in the 19th century, only a few remnants of the colorful painting had survived. A colorful reconstruction of the pillar is in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Trier. The top of the pillar is crowned by a sculpture of an eagle with spread wings. Today it is heavily weathered and hardly recognizable as an eagle.

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Rocky

April 25, 2021

The Igeler pillar in the village of Igel on the Moselle is, next to the Drususstein in Mainz, the only Roman tomb north of the Alps that has been preserved above ground at its original location since ancient times.

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Mikesan

May 5, 2022

In the life of a wealthy Roman there was little room for humility. Especially not when it came to their own afterlife. Sure, you didn't reside on Olympus, but you had achieved a certain prosperity and status on earth. One's own vanity forbade knowing that this position would also be buried after one's own death. And so the head of the Secundin family invested an almost unbelievable fortune in order to erect a luxury tombstone and a kind of advertising pillar for their merits for themselves and their living or deceased family members: the Igeler pillar, at 23 meters the largest surviving tombstone north of the Alps .

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Location: Igel, Landkreis Trier-Saarburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Igeler Säule (Roman Tomb)

1. Sauer River Elevated Walkway – Scenic Sauer River loop from Trier-Zewen

2. Wasserbillig–Oberbillig Ferry loop from Trier-Euren

3. Sauer River Elevated Walkway – Ralinger Tunnel loop from Osweiler

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