Hermeskeil

Town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Hermeskeil within Trier-Saarburg district

(2019–24) Lena Weber^[1] (SPD)Area

• Total30.85 km² (11.91 sq mi)Elevation

540 m (1,770 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total8,013 • Density260/km² (670/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

54411

Dialling codes06503Vehicle registrationTRWebsitewww.hermeskeil.de

Hermeskeil (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛʁməskaɪl]) is a city in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Hunsrück, approx. 25 km southeast of Trier. Its population is about 5,900.

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Hermeskeil is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Hermeskeil.

The old locomotive depot, Bahnbetriebswerk Hermeskeil is now a museum housing German steam engines.

The Flugausstellung aircraft museum displays more than 100 aircraft and is the largest private museum of that kind in Europe.

A Gaulish burial of the 1st century AD was discovered in a field near Hermeskeil in 2009.^[3]

A Roman castrum has been identified in 2015: it is the only castrum created by Julius Caesar inside Magna Germania, when he crossed the Rhine river in 53 BC^[4]

Wikipedia links

(in German) Link to German page Hermeskeil
(in German) Link to information page about Flugausstellung aircraft museum
(in German) de:Römerlager Hermeskeil

References

^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Trier-Saarburg, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 2 August 2021.
^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
^ Axel Munsteiner, Sensationeller Fund im Ringgraben, 30 September 2009.
^ Archaeologists find oldest Roman fort inside Germany