Latter from the west, flowing from a well-defined side valley A little before Koblenz a humble stream trickles into the Just before the hills begin, lay the third station holding another No legion guarded it but slightly further on, at Bonn, With many Transrhenane Germans and funnel the trade flow in bothĭirections. Already in 69 a walledĬity with its municipality, Cologne, the colony of the people ofĪgrippina, had a permanent bridge over the Rhine, serving to connect it Remains in a large crypt beneath the Town Hall. Visitor can still, despite rebuilding, study something of the impressive We now know the site and shapeīy the Rhine, and public spirited ingenuity has seen to it that the Opportunities its destruction during the Second World War provided forĬologne, the capital city of the Lower Rhine District, the saturationīombing of the 1939–45 war opened up the possibility of excavation. Region during the year of the four emperors, describing the Who were later settled on the west side of the Rhine in the Roman The Rhine that were occupied by the Eburones and across from CologneĮast of the Rhine the Ubii and other Germanic tribes such as the Cugerni With England, the first written account of this area and its people wasīy its conqueror, Julius Caesar who had subdued the territories west of
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