This distinctly beautiful model creates an important sensory experience that helps visitors access history.
Dr. Karl-Uwe Mahler, Stabstelle UNESCO World Heritage Trier
For 800 years, the Porta Nigra in Trier served as a double church. Until Napoleon demolished the church and the original Roman city gate was rebuilt. The model now provides a vivid insight into the vanished era of the building as a double church.
The UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Porta Nigra has stood for 1850 years. In the Middle Ages, the former city gate was converted into a double church by the Pope in honour of a saint. What the church actually looked like before 1500 still remains obscure, as the oldest source on its appearance can only be found in a Merian engraving from 1650. The demolition by Napoleon complicates building research and the work of art historians even further.
For the realisation of the new model, an existing model was 3D scanned and the data subsequently prepared for the production of the components.
The individual parts, manually assembled into an architectural model by our model makers, now show visitors a lost part of the varied history of the best-preserved Roman city gate in Germany. The finish in Corian® is perfectly suited for outdoor use.
