Details About Xanten

Oceans, rivers and ice formed the landscape around Xanten. During the Ice Ages huge glaciers pushed up moraines, thus creating the Frstenberg. The Rhine changed its bed and deposited gravels and sand. In Roman times the Rhine consisted of several arms. The Xanten area retains the traces of history. The oldest finds prove the presence of people for thousands of years since the Stone Age. With the occupation of the Rhineland by the troops of Julius Caesar there began a new epoch of intensive settlement and cultural change.