Saturday, 13.10.2001 - Sumelocenna, Germany

This vicus was set up presumable around AD 85 - 90. This in the context to a presumed military compound. The fate of the vicus after the fall of the right Rhine provinces around AD 260 is not known.

Next to the Eugen-Bolt grammar school are under a protection building thermal springs preserved. Since this construction was surrounded in the north, west and south from a wall, it could have been built and used by a college. It is visible the whole bathhouse which existed of an apodyterium, frigidarium, tepidarium and caldarium. The building was used from the second century AD to the middle of the 3rd century and altered repeatedly.

In a museum building are the public latrines preserved. These were constructed above the main sewer of the town. A peristyle house was next to that. This bordered at the latrines. From that two rooms with a hypocaust, a building of four rooms, a part of the peristyle and a basement is to see.

Before the museum building exists a lapidarium. Some consecration inscriptions, reliefs and a reconstructed Jupiter giant column which was found in Sumelocenna are to be seen.

In bath Nidernau was a sanctuary near a sulphur spring. A consecration stone for the deity, Apollo Gramnus(?) was found there and integrated into a protection building.

In Obernau was the source for an aqueduct, which supplied Sumelocenna with water. A stretch of the free water pipe is to see.

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