Forum Baths, Trier

[5] Along with the other bathhouses, the Forum Baths remained in use through the end of the fourth century.

[6] But the complex fell out of use during the early fifth century as Trier was repeatedly sacked during the Migration Period.

[7] In the 13th century, the remains of the bath began being used as a quarry for local buildings.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Capuchin Order built some of the buildings for their monastery over the eastern part of the bathhouse.

In 1802, the monastery was dissolved and nine years later, in 1811, the garden was transformed into a cattle market (German: Viehmarkt), from which the ruins get their name.