Germany for Visitors - Home
Germany IndexEurope for Visitors

Arrow"Best of the Web" - Washington Post

Europe > Germany > Regensburg > Document Neupfarrplatz

Document Neupfarrplatz

From: Regensburg, Germany

photo

ABOVE: Document Neupfarrplatz is a museum with underground walkways that lead you through Regensburg's Roman and Jewish past.

In 1995, the city of Regensburg dug up the Neupfarrplatz, a large square in the Altstadt, to install electrical outlets for the annual Christmas Market. Archaelogists expected to find relics of the city's 2,000-year history, but they discovered far more than that. Over the next three years, the city's rewiring project became a major archaeological dig that yielded well-preserved ruins of:

  • Castra Regina, the Roman military camp founded by emperor Marcus Aurelius in 179 AD.

  • Regensburg's medieval Jewish Quarter, which had been torn down and replaced by a church after the town council expelled the Jews in 1519.

Today, the excavations have been preserved as a city-owned museum called Document Neupfarrplatz. When you visit the museum, you'll walk among ancient foundations that are preserved where they were discovered after being buried for 500 to 1,800 years.

Next page: What you'll see


About Document Neupfarrplatz:
Document Neupfarrplatz - Introduction
What you'll see
Visitor information

More about Regensburg:
Regensburg, Germany
Walhalla
BMW Factory Tour
Hotel Münchner Hof
Regensburg photo gallery - 89 pictures with captions

About the author:

Durant Imboden photo.Durant Imboden is a professional travel writer, book author, and editor who focuses on European cities and transportation.

After 4-1/2 years of covering European travel topics for About.com, Durant and Cheryl Imboden co-founded Europe for Visitors (now including Germany for Visitors) in 2001. The site has earned "Best of the Web" honors from Forbes and The Washington Post.

For more information, see About Europe for Visitors, press clippings, and reader testimonials.


Photo © Presse- und Informationstelle, Stadt Regensburg.