{"id":17257,"date":"2021-04-27T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/thermen-allergrootste-topstuk\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T19:09:55","slug":"thermen-allergrootste-topstuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/thermen-allergrootste-topstuk\/","title":{"rendered":"The baths as the largest showpiece of all"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":{"categorie":33,"afbeelding":9205,"auteur":"Harry Lindelauf","fotografie":"Thermenmuseum Heerlen","contentbuilder":[{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst_quote","tekst":"These are the favourite Via Belgica finds chosen by experts. Discover what archaeologists answer when we ask: What is your favourite Roman find along the Via Belgica in South Limburg? The answers are varied and surprising. From a bronze Diana leg to spectacular sandstone ash chests. In ten episodes, we present the choices of experts. In the second episode:\r\n\r\n ","quote":"Beno\u00eet Mater","naam":"Initiator of the Roman Museum in Heerlen"},{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst","tekst":"\u201cLimburg has many beautiful finds, and often it is a small object that at first sight seems insignificant, but carries the most beautiful story. For me, as the initiator of the new Roman Museum in Heerlen, the Roman bathhouse \u2013 a national monument \u2013 is literally the largest showpiece of all. Her answer to the inevitable \u2018why-question\u2019 follows with full conviction: \u2018Here you can quite literally walk in the footsteps of the Romans, leave behind the hectic everyday life and immerse yourself in the romance of archaeology and Roman culture. At this location, you literally encounter our part of Roman history.\u2019\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst_foto","tekst":"

Built between 65 and 73<\/h3>\r\nThe new museum will from 2025 onwards protect and showcase the remains of the baths even better, so the promise goes. The current museum building is already 45 years old. That is considerably less than the lifespan of the baths, which remained in use for nearly 500 years.\r\n\r\nThe first version of the baths was built between 65 and 73 with four bathing rooms, a changing\/sports room, a stoking room and two small outdoor spaces. That building measured approximately 40 by 14 metres. The construction site was located at today\u2019s Kruisstraat\u2013Coriovallumstraat, close to where the Via Belgica and the Trier\u2013Aachen\u2013Xanten road crossed at the time. Later, the bathhouse was expanded, becoming four times larger than the first version. The remains of the Heerlen baths were discovered in 1935 by city archaeologist Piet Peters.\r\n\r\nWalkways alongside the remains provide a better view of the Roman baths.","foto":9208},{"acf_fc_layout":"foto_tekst","foto":9211,"tekst":"

Caumerbeek<\/h3>\r\nThe baths consumed large quantities of water: the two indoor cold-water baths were each filled with 5,000 litres, and the larger and deeper outdoor bath with 57,000 litres. Moreover, the water was continuously refreshed. The Romans transported the water over several kilometres through an aqueduct from the source of the Caumerbeek.\r\n\r\nVideo: Click here<\/a> for the video\r\n\r\nIn 2025, Heerlen expects to open a new Roman museum in which the baths will be incorporated."}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17261,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17257\/revisions\/17261"}],"acf:term":[{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"category","href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}