On Wednesday we visited The Roman museum in
Cologne, it was very interesting and informative! When we arrived in
Cologne we went to a tourist information, since we didn’t know where the museum was located. It turned out that we were standing almost in front of it. We walked around in the museum, getting inspired the whole afternoon and found out a lot of valuable information. During the Roman era
Cologne didn’t look like it does today. The city was called Colonia Agrippina and was ruled by the Emperor Claudius. The city was called Colonia Agrippina because of the Emperor’s wife, her name was Agrippina. Shockingly she was also the Emperor’s niece. The number of inhabitants during the Roman time 50 p.ch was 45 000 and today it’s approximately 1 million people living in
Cologne. Claudius let build the Eifel aqueduct which was one of the biggest aqueducts in ancient
Rome. This one served the people of
Cologne with water, almost 20 000 m³ daily. So
Cologne was a big city with a well working infrastructure. The city was built in a circle form, this was very typical for Roman cities. You can still today find leftovers from the old Roman Time, such as walls and monuments in the inner City of
Cologne. In Roman time, the focus on the funeral wasn’t concentrated on life after death like in Christianity, instead it was of big importance what you had accomplished in present life. That was why it was clearly showed in the grave monuments what your profession was and your civil status etc. Something that was really interesting was the mosaic of Dionysos. It was found in the 1940’s and is dated all the way back till the 3rd century. It was located in a former bank and was dedicated to the Whine God Dionysos. It was almost intact and this is one of the most famous things from Roman time in
Cologne. We saw a lot of beautiful glass “art” of different kinds and found out that Cologne was a mass producer of glass and was very famous for this in ancient
Rome. It was a very interesting and beautiful museum and we’re glad that we had the chance to go there to see all these amazing things.
Bis gleich!// Veronica and Sofia