Hermeskeil Explained

Type:Stadt
Image Coa:DEU Hermeskeil COA.svg
Coordinates:49.6572°N 6.9489°W
Image Plan:Hermeskeil in TR.svg
State:Rheinland-Pfalz
District:Trier-Saarburg
Verbandsgemeinde:Hermeskeil
Elevation:540
Area:30.85
Postal Code:54411
Area Code:06503
Licence:TR
Gemeindeschlüssel:07 2 35 045
Divisions:3
Website:www.hermeskeil.de
Mayor:Lena Weber[1]
Leader Term:2019 - 24
Party:SPD

Hermeskeil (pronounced as /de/) is a city in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Hunsrück, approx. 25 km southeast of Trier. Its population is about 5,900.

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Hermeskeil is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Hermeskeil.

The old locomotive depot, Bahnbetriebswerk Hermeskeil is now a museum housing German steam engines.

The Flugausstellung aircraft museum displays more than 100 aircraft and is the largest private museum of that kind in Europe.

A Gaulish burial of the 1st century AD was discovered in a field near Hermeskeil in 2009.[2]

A Roman castrum has been identified in 2015: it is the only castrum created by Julius Caesar inside Magna Germania, when he crossed the Rhine river in 53 BC[3]

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/2350000000000.html Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Trier-Saarburg
  2. http://www.volksfreund.de/totallokal/hochwald/aktuell/Heute-in-der-Hochwald-Zeitung-Hermeskeil;art804,2214478 Axel Munsteiner, Sensationeller Fund im Ringgraben
  3. https://www.livescience.com/23197-germany-roman-fort.html Archaeologists find oldest Roman fort inside Germany