Hermeskeil
Town
Coat of arms
Location of Hermeskeil within Trier-Saarburg district
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Coordinates: 49°39′26″N 6°56′56″E / 49.65722°N 6.94889°E / 49.65722; 6.94889
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Trier-Saarburg
Municipal assoc.	Hermeskeil
Subdivisions	3
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Lena Weber[1] (SPD)
Area
• Total	30.85 km2 (11.91 sq mi)
Elevation	540 m (1,770 ft)
Population  (2021-12-31)[2]
• Total	6,820
• Density	220/km2 (570/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	54411
Dialling codes	06503
Vehicle registration	TR
Website	www.hermeskeil.de

Hermeskeil (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛʁməskaɪl]) 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.

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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.^[3]

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^[4]

Wikipedia links

• (in German) Link to German page Hermeskeil
• (in German) Link to information page about Flugausstellung aircraft museum
• (in German) de:Römerlager Hermeskeil