49°45′10″N 6°38′16″E / 49.752736°N 6.63766°E / 49.752736; 6.63766 The Forum Baths of Trier (German: Thermen am Viehmarkt or Viehmarktthermen) are a ruin of a Roman bath complex in Augusta Treverorum , modern-day Trier , Germany . The baths were discovered in 1987.
6-470: The Forum Baths of Trier were converted in the 4th century C.E. from some older buildings, dated to around the 2nd century C.E. The structure encompassed 8364 m The bath house utilized the passive heating of the sun, like many Roman baths, and oriented the caldarium and tepidarium to the south, and the frigidarium to the north. Along with the other bathhouses, the Forum Baths remained in use through
12-399: A Roman bath complex. The boiler supplying hot water to a baths complex was also called caldarium . This was a very hot and steamy room heated by a hypocaust , an underfloor heating system using tunnels with hot air, heated by a furnace tended by slaves. It was also the hottest room in the regular sequence of bathing rooms; after the caldarium , bathers would progress back through
18-421: The tepidarium to the frigidarium . A caldarium in both public and private baths followed a common plan which had three main parts. The common arrangement would include a warm-water bath -- usually called alveus , but also referred to as piscina calida or solium -- sunk into the floor, a semicircular alcove -- laconicum -- where bathers would sit in order to induce sweating, and in
24-531: The end of the fourth century. But the complex fell out of use during the early fifth century as Trier was repeatedly sacked during the Migration Period . In the 13th century, the remains of the bath began being used as a quarry for local buildings. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Capuchin Order built some of the buildings for their monastery over the eastern part of the bathhouse. In 1802,
30-430: The middle of the room a vacant space -- sudatorium or sudatio -- meant for physical exercise before going to sit in laconicum . The bath's patrons would use olive oil to cleanse themselves by applying it to their bodies and using a strigil to remove the excess. This was sometimes left on the floor for the slaves to pick up or put back in the pot for the women to use for their hair. The temperature of
36-419: The monastery was dissolved and nine years later, in 1811, the garden was transformed into a cattle market (German: Viehmarkt), from which the ruins get their name. This Ancient Rome –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Caldarium A caldarium (also called a calidarium , cella caldaria or cella coctilium ) was a room with a hot plunge bath, used in
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