Remains of Empire: fourth century stones from a Roman fortress.
A Gallo-Roman settlement arose here in the first century AD at the crossing point of two important roads - Worms-Metz and Strasbourg-Trier. To improve communications, a stone bridge across the Saar was constructed and in the fourth century work started on a military camp, whose ruins can be seen above. It is thought that the fortress was never fully completed. By the fifth century it had been destroyed and the bridge, too, fell into disrepair. For ten centuries after that ferries and fords were only way to cross the Saar.
