Römergrab in Efferen

The Roman tomb in Efferen is a preserved burial chamber from the 3rd to 4th century AD, discovered in 1899 during construction of a railway station. It lies metres from the Agrippa-Straße Trier–Köln, an ancient Roman road. The lower part of the chamber survived with two sarcophagi still in place. The chamber’s walls are built of sandstone blocks and its barrel vault of tuff stone. Both sarcophagi are made of white sandstone and stand on low bases. The entrance once had a 90 cm wide door with hinges and a bolt, though the door itself is gone. Archaeologists found only a skull and a few bones inside the sarcophagi. Visitors see the nearly square chamber measuring about 3.70 m on each side. The surviving entrance passage is also 3.70 m long. The chamber sits beneath the former railway building, now accessible for viewing. Nearby in Hürth are other Roman finds, including the well-known Weiden tomb in Cologne.