The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire

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Title page of the 25th delivery to the ORL, June 1905

The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire ( ORL ; short title: Limeswerk ) is a 15 volume publication in which the Reichs-Limeskommission documented its archaeological activities on the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes . The ORL is an indispensable standard work on Roman provincial archeology in general and Limes research in particular.

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The ORL is divided into two so-called departments, the seven-volume department A, which is dedicated to the individual Limes sections (routes), and the eight-volume department B, in which the individual larger forts are described.

Section A documents the exact course of the Limes, describes the findings , shape and state of preservation of ramparts, moats, palisades or walls, as well as the watchtowers and smaller forts below the number size . An extensive section is devoted to both Roman and pre-Roman road connections , and a further section documents the finds recovered by the commission during the excavations .

Section B describes in detail every single fort known at the time of the commission, from the size of a numerus fort upwards.
Both departments also summarize the respective research results from the time before the activities of the commission. The chapters of both departments are equipped with elaborately designed picture panels, which are provided with location maps, floor plans, findings and find drawings as well as excavation photographs.

Frequency of publication and editions

The individual work areas (sections, forts) were published by the so-called route commissioners responsible in individual booklets, so-called deliveries. In some cases, it was also published in advance in a separate series of publications, the “Limesblatt”, or in relevant specialist journals such as the Bonner Jahrbucher .

The deliveries were combined into the individual volumes by the three editors, Ernst Fabricius , Felix Hettner and Oscar von Sarwey , and published between 1894 and 1937. The volumes were published by Otto Petters Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin / Leipzig.

In 1973 and 2005 started reprints resp. Facsimile editions are only available in individual volumes. The original editions, which are still in excellent condition due to their high quality workmanship, are rare and only available in academic libraries or on the antiquarian book market.
A full-text search based on the 2005 reprint is currently being set up on Libreka .

The individual volumes

Department A

  • Volume 1: Section 1 (The Limes from the Rhine to the Lahn), 1915 and Section 2 (The Limes from the Lahn to the Aar), 1916
  • Volume 2: Route 3 (The Limes in the Taunus from the Aar to the Köpperner Tal near the Saalburg), 1935 and routes 4 and 5 (The Wetterau line from the Köpperner Tal near the Saalburg to the Main near Gross-Krotzenburg), 1936
  • Volume 3: Line 6 (the Main line from Seligenstadt to Miltenberg with an addendum to Section B No. 33 Stockstadt Castle), 1933
  • Volume 4: Stretches 7 to 9 (The Upper German Limes from Miltenberg am Main to Haghof near Welzheim), 1931, 1933
  • Volume 5: Route 10 (The Odenwald Limes from Wörth am Main to Wimpfen am Neckar), 1926, 1935; and route 11 (the Neckar line from Wimpfen to Rottweil and Hüfingen), 1935
  • Volume 6: Line 12 (The Rhaetian Limes from Haghof near Welzheim to the Württemberg-Bavarian border), 1935 and Line 13 (The Rhaetian Limes from the Württemberg-Bavarian border to Gunzenhausen and the small fort Unter-Schwaningen), 1930
  • Volume 7: Line 14 (The Raetian Limes from Gunzenhausen to Kipfenberg), 1927 and Line 15 (The Raetian Limes from Kipfenberg to the Danube), 1932

Department B

literature

  • Jürgen Oldenstein (Ed.): Find index to The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire . Zabern, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-8053-0549-4 .
  • Reichs Limes Commission (Ed.): Work plan . Heidelberg 1892–1898. (Print editions and films, Heidelberg University Library).
  • Report on the work of the Reichslimeskommission . de Gruyter, Berlin 1892–1897, Reimer, Berlin 1898–1903. (Print editions and film adaptations Heidelberg UB, Speyer Pfälzische LB).
  • Annual report of the conductors, based on d. § 9 d. Statute d. Reich Limes Commission . Freiburg Br.-Trier-Charlottenburg 1892–1904. (Print editions and film adaptations, Heidelberg University Library, etc.).
  • Limes leaf . Notices from the route commissioners to the Reichslimeskommission. Trier 1.1892–7.1903, No. 1–35 ( Google Book Search with US proxy).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Codex-Verlag, Böblingen, 1973.
  2. ↑ Greiner, Remshalden 2005ff. ISBN 3-935383-72-X . Presentation on the publisher's website .
  3. ↑ Volume A1 and Volume B4