Porta Nigra

This is the remains of the Northern Gate entrance to Trier. It was built in the last part of the 2nd Century. It was originally white sandstone, but over the years has become blackened and is now called the Porta Nigra, or Black Gate. It is 36 meters wide (about 110 feet) and the west tower is 30 meters (about 93 feet) tall. Sometime after 1035 the top two floors were converted to a church. In the first part of the 1800's the church modernizations were removed. The wall which extended around the city was 6.5 Kilometers long or about 4 miles. There was so much to see and we didn't have enough time to see it all, so we were not able to get a picture what he original wall looked like.