Strasbourg

• Strasbourg is a cathedral city on an island in the river Ill which flows into the Rhine, located in the Nord Est Region of northeastern France. It is noted for being the official seat of the European Parliament.
• It was founded by Drusus the Elder in c.12 BCE as the Roman Frontier Fortress of Argentorate or Argentoratum in the Province of Germania Superior.

History

• Because Argentorate was a Frontier city it was burnt several times in 70 CE, 97 CE, 235 CE and 355 CE.
• Two Roman Legions are known to have been based at Argentoratum:
  • Legio II Augusta (9-43 CE) before relocating to Britannia‘
  • Legio VIII Augusta (70-371 CE)
• The Alemanni
  • In 357 CE, it was the location of the Battle of Argentoratum, where Julian defeated the Alemanni.
  • In 366 CE, the Rhine froze and the Alemanni invaded again.
  • By the beginning of the 5th century CE, the Alemanni had overrun Alsace.
• Strasbourg Roman Aqueduct had an unusual design utilising two buried pipelines created by inserting terracotta pipe segments together. One segment is in the Strasbourg Archeological Museum.

Museums

• Strasbourg Archeological Museum
  • 2 Place du Chateau, Strasbourg.
  • The museum holds the Mausoleum of veteran Marcus Valerius Rufus and his brothers, and a segment of the Roman Aqueduct Pipeline.

Roman Roads

• Military Road
  • A Roman Road ran along the west bank of the Rhine from the North Sea to Switzerland.

Strasbourg Archeological Museum