Roman Museum
Bad WaltersdorfNear the parish church in the parish garden there is a collection of Roman stones - works of funerary art, created in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. The Roman relief stones are among the most important Roman finds in Styria.
Roman Legacy
A search for clues leading to the ancient Roman Empire finds a special highlight in this collection of unique grave monuments in Bad Waltersdorf. The Roman relief stones are witnesses that the area around Bad Waltersdorf was already populated almost 2500 years ago.
The Roman stones were partly walled in at the church wall and at the vicarage. The stones were carefully removed from the masonry and thus an "open-air museum" was created in 1966. In order to be able to protect these valuable Roman stones better, or to be able to present them even more attractively, a "Roman Museum" was newly built in 1998.
Rarities of early tomb and relief art from the 1st and 2nd century after Christ make romanophile hearts beat faster. Among others, the sculpted Norse girl in fashionable bell paenula with umbrella and lantern can be seen. Finds from a tumulus of a Celtic-Roman burial complex such as household utensils, jars and bowls. The "sella curulis - an honorary seat relief" was created around 150 AD, such an honorary relief was dedicated only to highest-ranking officials of Roman country towns. There is also an ancient female statue without a head and many other stone relief documents worth seeing.
You can buy a helpful guide to the museum in the information office, in the municipal office and in the parish church of Bad Waltersdorf.
Daily from 08.00 to 18.00 hrs
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