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Monumentum

Mithräum von Wiesloch

The first members of the Wiesloch Mithraeum may have been veterans from Ladenburg and Heidelberg.

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  • Plan of the Mithraeum of Wiesloch

    Plan of the Mithraeum of Wiesloch
    Hensen 

 
 
The New Mithraeum
3 Jun 2009
Updated on 17 Jan 2022
 

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About 183 m N. of the Leimbach at Wiesloch, in an area of unused land known as Die Dornmühle, a mithraeum was discovered in Autumn 1988 and excavated in the course of 1989 by Dr. R-H. Behrends and the staff of the Archäologische Denkmalpflege, Karlsruhe.

The vicus of Wiesloch grew up early in IIp at the crossing of the main Mainz-Augsburg road with the important road linking Speyer and Bad Wimpfen. The first Mithraists here may have been veterans from Ladenburg and Heidelberg, which are nearby. The mithraeum is situated about 13m from a road running N-S, and approached by a paved

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