Römerbrücke (Roman Bridge)

The bridge, near the Crane, played an important part in the town's development. Its square pillars of black Eifel basalt, supporting a wooden bridge structure in Roman days, were built as long ago as the 1st century. The city wall was put in the eastern bridgehead and had in its inner angle the magnificent western town gate.

The bridge was established in the course of research in connection with work carried out to turn the Moselle into a navigable waterway. The former, simple woodpiles dating back to the days when Trier was founded, were replaced and apart from two piers of a more recent date, these pillars still support the arches of a bridge built in 1717, although it has been widened twice since, in 1931 and 1957.