Mertingen

Mertingen is a municipality in the district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria in Germany.

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German location.image_coa: DEU Mertingen COA.svg
German location.image_photo: Mertingen Zentrum.jpg
German location.image_caption: Center of Mertingen
German location.image_plan: Mertingen in DON.svg
German location.state: Bayern
German location.region: Schwaben
German location.district: Donau-Ries
German location.elevation: 411
German location.area: 38.42
German location.postal_code: 86690
German location.area_code: 09078
German location.licence: DON

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Mertingen is a municipality in the district of Donau-Ries in Bavaria in Germany.

The important Roman road, the Via Claudia Augusta was built in this area near the location of "Burghoefe" during the 1st century AD, linking Italy with the Danube river. It had its northern end around Mertingen, it then branched into a Roman military road following the Danube river from its origin in the West to Regensburg in the East.