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The Porta Nigra (Latin for black gate), referred to by locals as Porta, is a large Roman city gate in Trier, Germany.It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [2]The name Porta Nigra originated in the Middle Ages due to the darkened colour of its stone; the original Roman name has not been preserved.
Porta Nigra, city side. The Porta Nigra is the only surviving gate of Trier's Roman city wall and, along with the Imperial Baths, probably the most famous monument. Like the city wall, it originally dates from the last quarter of the 2nd century AD; the start of construction could be dated to the year 170 by dendrochronology in 2018.
Porta Nigra: the northern gate to the Roman city; Imperial Baths: incomplete baths that were constructed in the 4th century. Aula Palatina (Basilica): An early Christian basilica built in the early 4th century. Cathedral: The oldest church in Germany; Church of Our Lady (Liebfrauenkirche): A Gothic cathedral built in the 13th century.
The Porta Nigra, originally one of several monumental gates of Roman Trier. Under Constantine and his 4th-century successors, Augusta Treverorum became a large, favoured, rich and influential city that served as one of the capitals of the Roman Empire (together with Nicomedia (present-day İzmit , Turkey), Eboracum (present-day York , England ...
At the end of April 1969, the old Roman road at the Porta Nigra was uncovered. Shortly afterward, on May 12, 1969, the open-air wildlife enclosure in the Weisshaus forest was opened. The University of Trier was reestablished in 1970, initially as part of the combined university of Trier-Kaiserslautern. The evolution of Trier as a university ...
General view of Trier's Porta Nigra, an emblematic example of a city gate, seen from the countryside. The topography of the site precludes the possibility of there having been a gate on each side, particularly on the western facade. The northern side may have had a monumental gate due to the site's topography, which included a regular slope.
The Doppelkirche conversion of the Porta Nigra was reversed more than 750 years later, in 1804, by the order of Napoleon. Since then, the city gate has reverted almost to its original Gallo-Roman condition. Only the Romanesque east side of the choir still testifies from the outside to the fact that the Porta Nigra was once an imposing church.
This makes the Porta Nigra (Black Gate) in Trier particularly important. While having four gates on each side of a square town was the standard Roman civic design all over the empire, Trier’s ...