The history of the excavation already began about 1900, when the teacher Johann Schneider observed unnatural elevations in the terrain. He found bricks and wall remainders besides Roman ceramics. Because of the two World Wars the research of Schneider unfortunately fell into oblivion, and more than half a century passed until this spot again drew the attention of science. Expanded illicit excavations threatened to destroy the ground-monument to such an extent, that the State Conservation Department of the Saarland in 1986 felt bound to establish a systematic excavation
