Explore the beauty of Ladenburg in Germany!4k Tour Video

Ladenburg is a town in the Rhine-Neckar district of Baden-Württemberg. The Roman city is known for its listed old town, as the place of work of Carl Benz and for its history, which dates back to Celtic and Roman times.
Today, Ladenburg is primarily an important business location (including Heidelberg Pharma) and an attractive place to live, which benefits from its proximity to the university cities of Heidelberg and Mannheim.
Ladenburg describes itself as the oldest city in Germany on the right bank of the Rhine. The first settlement of the place took place sometime between 3000 and 200 BC. BC Ladenburg initially existed as a Celtic settlement Lokudunom (= “Seeburg”). 200 B.C. In the 4th century BC the center of the Celtic district was moved from Heiligenberg near Heidelberg to Ladenburg. In the year 40, the Suebian Elbe Germans were settled by the Romans as a peasant militia. In the Roman sources they are called Suebi Nicrenses (“Neckarsueben”). In 74 AD the Romans founded a military camp there with a camp village (vicus), the nucleus of the later city. The garrison included an auxiliary cavalry detachment from the Cananefats.
In 98, Emperor Trajan elevated the settlement of Lopodunum to civitas and the capital of the Civitas Ulpia Sueborum Nicrensium; After the emperor's gentile name - Ulpius - the place was given the nickname Ulpia. The settlement experienced its heyday in the second and early third centuries, which is documented by numerous archaeological finds.
Around the year 220, the Roman city had a forum with a market basilica, a weekly market, temples, a Roman theater, thermal baths, palaces and a city wall. The public buildings were unusually large compared to other settlements in the region. The walled area was around 32 hectares, and scattered finds even show a settlement area of ​​around 45 hectares. This made Ladenburg the largest Roman city in what is now Baden-Württemberg, ahead of Rottweil, Rottenburg, Bad Cannstatt, Bad Wimpfen, Heidenheim and Heidelberg.
In 260 or shortly before, Alamanni apparently destroyed the city after the imperial troops had abandoned the Decumatland. However, some locals stayed and passed on the Roman place name. Emperor Valentinian I took the settlement back in 369 and had a Ländeburgus, a late antique harbor fortification, built that could only be accessed from the Neckar. Around the middle of the 5th century, probably in 454 after the collapse of the Hun Empire, Roman rule in the Ladenburg area finally ended.
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