We are currently here at the shopping center where the Isis Temple is located. We walked to the basement but it wasn’t there. There is no obvious passage or location but there are signs which indicate it’s downstairs although we walked down and didn’t see it. It’s Tuesday and supposedly open per the website. Any advice? No one we have talked to yet in the building has ever heard of it.
Posted by
Belgium
13 posts
Access is on the ground floor (of the shoppingcenter Römerpassage) via the entrance of the Taberna archaeologica, opposite Thai Express.
https://roemerpassage.com/centerplan/?lang=en
Posted by
OP
California
293 posts
Thanks! We found it. They offer a private tour.
Posted by
Northwest Arkansas
982 posts
I want to see this on a future trip to Mainz. Waiting for the ship museum to reopen before I go.
Have you visited other Roman sites in Germany? Thoughts?
Posted by
Frankfurt, Germany
9531 posts
One of the other Roman sites in Mainz is the ampitheater ruins next to their train station - Römisches Theater. If it was all intact, it would have been the largest one in Europe, outside of Italy.
A visit to Trier should be on your list if you want Roman historical sites in Germany. Add in the Saalburg Roman fort near Frankfurt/Bad Homburg. It is the only reconstructed Roman Kastell anywhere. I believe Cologne has a number of sites, as this was the largest Roman city in Germany. Hopefully, someone more familiar with them will post some links.
Posted by
Alsenborn, Germany
2235 posts
There's a huge amount of Roman history worth visiting in western Germany, France, and Spain. In Mainz, along with the Isis Temple (across from the bookstore in the Romerpassage) and the Ampitheater, there's also the remains of the aquaduct, and a much overlooked Roman gate over by the Schloss.
You also have the Roman Museums in Homburg and Bad Kreuznach, there's a Roman era stone quarry in the hills above Bad Durkheim (complete with graffiti from the Legions), the Villa Rustic ruins in Wachenheim, the Roman Winery in Weilberg, the Ponte Negro, Imperial Baths, and Collisium, and bridge in Trier, the ruins at Eisenberg (which is an active archeology site and not always open), and the Heidenmauer in Wiesbaden. There are a couple more villa ruins on the Mosel at Schweich, Mehring, and Wittlich, and the Romergraben just outside of Senheim. There's the Archäologiepark Martberg near Tres-Karden, and the Limes (ancient line of towers and forts) runs from north of Mainz to the Swiss border.
And then there's Metz, with the aqueduct, and fabulous Coeur de la Ore Museum, which is built on a Roman bath. They have the best collection of lead coffins I've seen anywhere. There's a lot more. I've been almost 3 years in this corner of Germany and still keep finding new places not on the American tourist playlists.