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| Basement | |
| Nice and cool, even in the summertime! A stroke of luck: the basement of one of the earliest stone buildings was filled in and has, therefore, been excellently preserved. It was part of a private home. The extremely well preserved basement was linked by a short underground corridor with the cloaca, the wastewater channel nearby and was accessed by the same steps. |
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| - Panorama photograph - a panoramic view of the underground - Storing goods in cellars | ||
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| A modern metal stairs, flanked by two walls of the later central baths, lead to an extraordinarily well preserved basement, which is located approximately 5 metres below the
surface. When it was discovered in 1943, it was practically intact. During the 1st century it served as a storage room in a private home and had to make way around AD 100 for the extension to the central baths. While the cellar was no longer used, it was not demolished but filled in with rubble. Thanks to pottery found in this rubble, the time of the filling of the cellar can be dated more precisely, which in turn provides an indirect date for the extension of the central baths. A modern connecting tunnel leads today from this basement to the cloaca. However, while the two sites can be visited together today, there was no connection from a constructional point of view! | ||
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