 However, the late Weiler citizen Heinrich Bell's collecting and researching mind is to be thanked for the knowledge that there has been human life in what is now the Weiler municipal area since the earliest times.On an ancient trail, already used by the Celts, the Romans (52 BC to AD 405) built a modern army and trade road linking Mainz with Trier and running right by Weiler (the "Via Ausonia").In the part of Bingen Forest lying within Weiler's limits, the remnants of a Roman villa rustica have been being unearthed since 1994.