The roman villa at Hechingen

A wine cellar with amphorae, the remains of the heating of the old baths by the sun, the small, partly reconstructed temples of the divine trinity of Zeus, Juno and Minerva; Villa Rustica is an open-air museum showing, through various kinds of exhibits, the way people lived, worked as well as what they believed in this Roman province in northern Germany.
While walking in the forest in 1973, Gerd Schollian, mayor of Stein at the time, discovered the foundations of the Villa Rustica. In the last decades the site has not only been excavated but also partly reconstructed. One can thus walk in the arcade and get the feeling of the Roman way of life.