Author: K. Jeneson and W.K. Vos (eds.)

This report provides an integrated, comprehensive academic study of one of the most important archaeological monuments in the Netherlands: the Roman bath complex in Heerlen. This provides us with thorough and detailed knowledge of the building, development, nature, and use of the monumental bath complex, which for centuries was a center of the municipality of Coriovallum, present-day Heerlen.

Coriovallum was built at the intersection of two important Roman roads. The first, known today as the Via Belgica, connected the border region along the Rhine with the hinterland in Gaul; the second ran from Aquae Granni (Aachen) in the south, along the right bank of the Meuse, to the large legionary camp of the Vetera in Xanten in the north. Coriovallum was thus directly connected to the two coloniae that later emerged on the Rhine: Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Cologne) and Colonia Ulpia Traiana (Xanten). It can therefore be assumed that this bathhouse possessed supra-regional importance.

Further information about these studies can be found on the website of the Thermenmuseum Heerlen.