European Archaeological Park of Bliesbruck-Reinheim

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The European Archaeological Park of Bliesbruck-Reinheim (in German: Europäischer Kulturpark Bliesbruck-Reinheim) is an archaeological park located on both sides of the Franco-German border and shared between the municipalities of Reinheim in the Saarland and Bliesbruck in Moselle. This cross-border project was initiated in 1989. It shows within a space of seventy hectares the archaeological remains found on the site.

A museum completes the device. The main remains exhibited are of great diversity: the princely tomb of Reinheim, a Gallo-Roman vicus and a large Roman villa. With archaeological remains of the Mesolithic, the Bronze Age, the Celtic and Roman periods, and later Germanic migrations of late antiquity, the site bears witness to a permanent occupation of the Blies Valley over a period of six thousand years.

Despite different parties in France and Germany, which feed on each other, the uniqueness of cooperation in fact, according to archaeologist Diane Dusseaux, "one of the major achievements of the contemporary archaeological landscape".