{"id":23387,"date":"2026-04-07T15:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/?post_type=plek&p=23387"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:20:36","slug":"st-marys-assumption-market-square-in-julich","status":"publish","type":"plek","link":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/plek\/st-marys-assumption-market-square-in-julich\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Mary\u2019s Assumption \/ Market Square in J\u00fclich"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"template":"","plek_types":[79,82],"class_list":["post-23387","plek","type-plek","status-publish","hentry","plek_types-archaeological-site","plek_types-education"],"acf":{"tekstkleur":false,"nummer":610,"kleur":"#000000","adres":{"address":"D\u00fcsseldorfer Str. 1A, 52428 J\u00fclich, Duitsland","lat":50.92206304072304,"lng":6.358102327452963,"zoom":14,"place_id":"ChIJAYJ1W6tev0cRyjhpgCC2yMo","street_number":"1A","street_name":"D\u00fcsseldorfer Stra\u00dfe","street_name_short":"D\u00fcsseldorfer Str.","city":"J\u00fclich","state":"Nordrhein-Westfalen","state_short":"NRW","post_code":52428,"country":"Duitsland","country_short":"DE"},"straatnaam":"D\u00fcsseldorfer Str. 1A","postcode":"52428","plaats":"J\u00fclich","website":"More information on the hotspot","website_url":"https:\/\/www.erlebnisraum-roemerstrasse.eu\/via-juelich-03.html","hotspot_naam":"St. Mary\u2019s Assumption \/ Market Square","afbeelding":23383,"contactpersonen":"","email":"sekretariat@erlebnisraum-roemerstrasse.eu","telefoon":"","videobox_contentblok":"","content":"Nearly 2,000 years of settlement history have left their traces on this square: since the Renaissance, the market of the town of J\u00fclich has once again been located at the same site that already formed the center of the settlement in antiquity.\r\n\r\nIn the Middle Ages, the old market (Altmarkt) was situated in front of the fort at the corner of D\u00fcsseldorfer Stra\u00dfe and Kapuzinerstra\u00dfe. However, after the great fire of 1547, the town had to be completely redesigned. In the process, the market was moved back to its original location as the city\u2019s central point. During the construction of the Old Town Hall, the Roman main road was uncovered there. Its further course is now marked in the paving of the market square. In the 4th century, the walls of the late Roman fort ran around the market\u2014gray strips on the four streets leading off the square today indicate their former course. Altogether, more than two meters of settlement debris lie here in what was once the center of the Roman settlement.\r\n\r\nThe fort continued to be used into the High Middle Ages. Along one section of the wall stood a Roman building from which the Romanesque Church of St. Mary\u2019s Assumption developed. During this period, Roman structures were used as quarries for building stone: for example, next to the church\u2019s side entrance, a fragment of a Roman votive stone with a cornucopia relief can still be seen. On the base of a Jupiter column, found in the foundation area of the church, there is an inscription that mentions the name of J\u00fclich for the first time: \u201cTo the highest Roman god, the inhabitants of the vicus of J\u00fclich, the vicani Iuliacenses, erected this column.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe small columns in the tower hall, dating from around 1150, are made of so-called \u201cCologne marble\u201d\u2014an imitation marble produced from the limestone deposits of the Roman Eifel aqueduct.","slideshow":[23379,23383],"ontdekken_video_box":{"ontdekken_video_titel":"","ontdekken_video_paragraaf":"","ontdekken_video_iframe":""},"ontdekken_360_box":{"ontdekken_360_titel":"","ontdekken_360_paragraaf":"","ontdekken_360_iframe":""},"doen":null,"weten":[{"vraag":"First photo: reconstruction of the Column of Jupiter, erected by the inhabitants of Iuliacum, 2nd century. Graphic: N. Bartz","antwoord":""},{"vraag":"Second photo: digital model of the late antique fort, 4th century. Image: Prof. U. Stegelmann, Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich","antwoord":""}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plek\/23387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plek"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plek"}],"acf:attachment":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23383"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plek_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plek_types?post=23387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}