Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Lower German Limes

World Heritage

Germany

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The multinational site stretches for approximately 400 km along the left bank of the Rhine, from the Rhine Mountains in Germany to the North Sea coast of the Netherlands, and consists of 102 sections from a part of the Roman Empire's frontier that stretched over 7,500 km across Europe, the Near East and North Africa in the 2nd century AD. The site includes military and civilian sites and infrastructure marking the edge of Lower Germany from the 1st to the 5th century AD. Archaeological remains on the site include military bases, forts, small forts, towers, temporary camps, roads, ports, fleet bases, canals and aqueducts, as well as civilian settlements, towns, cemeteries, temples, amphitheatres and palaces. Almost all of these archaeological remains are buried underground. The waterlogged sediments on the site have resulted in a high degree of preservation of structures and organic material from the period of Roman occupation and use.

# Transnational heritage

# Lower German Border