Main Market (Trier)

 marketplace, interesting place

The Main Market became the center of medieval Trier with:
- the Steipe, the city council's banqueting house, with immediate access to the city church St. Gangolf (through the little baroque gate on the south side, the church itself is completely surrounded by stalls and houses),
- the official city yardstick (reconstruction) at the Steipe,
- the pillary (reconstructed on the south end of the market),
- access to the Cathedral,
- access to the Jewish Quarter
- as well as to six streets altogether.

After the Viking destruction of 882, the archbishop moved the market from the river to the present site, the Market Cross still commemorates this event from 958. The original of the cross is in the Municipal Museum; the column shaft is a recycled granite column from the Roman Cathedral. www.trier-info.de