title: Hermeskeil
text: # Hermeskeil
  
  Hermeskeil (German pronunciation:) is a city in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Hunsrück, approx. 25 km southeast of Trier. Its population is about 5,900.
  
  ## Data
  
  Hermeskeil is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Hermeskeil.
  
  The old locomotive depot, Bahnbetriebswerk Hermeskeil is now a museum housing German steam engines.
  
  The Flugausstellung aircraft museum displays more than 100 aircraft and is the largest private museum of that kind in Europe.
  
  A Gaulish burial of the 1st century AD was discovered in a field near Hermeskeil in 2009.
  
  A Roman castrum has been identified in 2015: it is the only castrum created by Julius Caesar inside Magna Germania, when he crossed the Rhine river in 53 BC
  
  ## Wikipedia links
  
  * (in German) Link to German page Hermeskeil
  * (in German) Link to information page about Flugausstellung aircraft museum
  * (in German) de:Römerlager Hermeskeil
  