Abodiacum

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Memorial stone to the history of Abodiacum

Abodiacum is the name of a street vicus of the Roman Empire in the area of Epfach , a district of the municipality of Denklingen in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech .

The place was at the point where the Roman road Kempten - Gauting - Salzburg crossed the Via Claudia Augusta and the Lech . Between Füssen ( Foetes ), where the Via Claudia left the mountains, and Augsburg ( Augusta Vindelicum ), the capital of the Roman province of Raetia , Abodiacum was the most important Roman settlement. The name of the Vicus Abodiacum has been passed down by several sources . Probably destroyed in the year 233 Alemanni settlement.

During excavations in 1906 and 1933 and 1957, the central areas of the vicus were examined. The floor plans of a thermal bath as well as buildings of merchants, innkeepers and craftsmen were discovered. During the excavations in 1957, traces of wooden buildings from the early Roman period were cut.

When the fire station was built in 1987, the foundations of two Roman buildings, some of which had a basement, came to light. To the north of the school, parts of four rooms with the remains of a hypocaust heater were documented.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 39.6 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 31.7 ″  E