Roman spring sanctuary Sudelfels

The Sudelfels is the site of a Celtic and Roman spring sanctuary in the Saarland village of Ihn near Wallerfangen.

From the 2nd to the 4th century AD, the Celtic spring and mother goddess Sirona was worshipped at the spring sanctuary, together with the fertility goddess Rosmerta and the Roman deities Apollo, Mercurius, Minerva, and Silvanus. A stone torso of Sirona, a wooden water channel from the mid-3rd century, and several votive stones with Latin inscriptions were found at the Sudelfels.

The complex of the spring sanctuary was uncovered by archaeologists in two excavations, 1903 and 1980–1984, and subsequently restored.

Central parts of the sanctuary were a small hexagonal ambulatory temple and an equally hexagonal spring enclosure, whose basin is carved from a single sandstone block. In the 4th century, the complex was abandoned.