Elisabethenstrasse
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The Elisabethenstraße is a historical old road from the ancient Mogontiacum , today's Mainz , to the Wetterau , which was developed by the Romans as a military road and supply route and allowed a quick supply of the areas on the right bank of the Rhine (→ Römerstraße ). In its course it is also known as Steinerne Straße , Hohe Straße or Heerstraße . It replaced or supplemented older paths running nearby.
history
An older connection originally led from Mainz-Kastel via Höchst to the Friedberger area . As part of the Roman advance from Mainz into inner Germania , an artificial road was built in the direction of the Wetterau via Hofheim am Taunus to the forts near today's Frankfurt-Heddernheim . Later, the fort near Heddernheim developed into an urban settlement called Nida , which became the capital of the Roman Civitas Taunensium . The road continued from there via Karben and Friedberg to Marburg .
The street was only named Elisabethenstraße in the Middle Ages, as the pilgrimages to the grave of St. Elisabeth in Marburg ran along it . A section of the route between Hofheim and Eschborner Kreuz is built over as the A 66 motorway , but remains of the Roman stone paving can still be found today parallel to the motorway. To emphasize the importance of this connection, the Romans also set up an arch of honor in Mainz-Kastel, which has hitherto been referred to as the northernmost.
course
Coming from the Mainz bridge over the Rhine , Elisabethenstraße runs in a straight line via Massenheim (local border) to the districts of Hofheim-Diedenbergen and Marxheim to Hofheim (section A). From Hofheim past Kriftel and Frankfurt-Zeilsheim , north of Frankfurt-Unterliederbach (also here local border) further via Eschborn (here the motorway turns south) to Frankfurt-Praunheim (Heerstraße) and on to the former forum of the Roman city of Nida, today's Frankfurt -Heddernheim, (section B). From there in a north-easterly direction to Karben (section C), then to run almost northwards to Friedberg (section D). Behind Friedberg this road turned off to Butzbach (section E), left Roman territory there and continued to Marburg. Remarkably, the named sections A to E run almost in a straight line, which indicates a planned layout of this Roman " art road ".
Partly it can still be seen in the aerial photo, other parts are still used today as roads or paths:
- The starting point was the Ehrenbogen in Kastel on Große Kirchenstraße . 50 ° 0 ′ 32 " N , 8 ° 17 ′ 2.5" E
- continue on Steinern Straße in Kastel 50 ° 0 ′ 37 ″ N , 8 ° 17 ′ 24 ″ E
- Crossing Steinern Strasse , motorway bridge on the A 671 50 ° 1 ′ 29 ″ N , 8 ° 19 ′ 27 ″ E
- over the Mühlberg in Hochheim , the state road L 3028, here the route becomes the border line between Wiesbaden and Hochheim 50 ° 2 '2 " N , 8 ° 20' 53" E
- back on Wiesbaden territory it continues as a field path near Wiesbaden-Delkenheim , here referred to as Elisabethenstrasse . 50 ° 2 ′ 14 " N , 8 ° 21 ′ 22" E
- In Wiesbaden-Delkenheim the Römerstraße changes its name to An der Straßenmühle up to the Wickerbach- Übergang. Here it is again the border to Massenheim, there again called Elisabethenstrasse 50 ° 2 ′ 28 ″ N , 8 ° 22 ′ 1 ″ E
- after Wickerbach she is soon back dirt road south of Delkenheim and north of the mass Home, then the motorway A 3 just south of Wiesbaden Cross to pass under 50 ° 3 '3.4 " N , 8 ° 23' 31.2" O
- As a border line to Wallau , it crosses under the new ICE route of the high-speed route Cologne – Rhine / Main , which runs from Frankfurt Airport to Cologne , in the Diedenbergen area . 50 ° 3 '10.3 " N , 8 ° 23' 48.8" E
- After crossing under the Autobahn 66 it is then called Casteller Strasse (L 3264) and is still the main road in Diedenbergen 50 ° 3 ′ 39 ″ N , 8 ° 25 ′ 4 ″ E
- At the exit of Diedenbergen, the Römerstraße leaves the Casteller Straße and then runs over the Liebfrauenstraße in the direction of Marxheim. 50 ° 3 ′ 49 " N , 8 ° 25 ′ 32" E
- In Marxheim, the course of the Römerstrasse in front of the Hofheim fort can only be seen as a trail of vegetation in the field; it then becomes the common border with Kriftel and is still preserved as a dirt road parallel to Frankfurter Strasse . 50 ° 3 ′ 54 ″ N , 8 ° 25 ′ 46 ″ E and 50 ° 4 ′ 46 ″ N , 8 ° 27 ′ 3 ″ E
- From the Hofheimer Hochfeld it crossed the Schwarzbach at the level of the former paper mill, and then continued over the Schmelzweg , again as Elisabethenstraße (L 3018) partly as a border to Kriftel, in the direction of Frankfurt-Zeilsheim. 50 ° 5 ′ 17 " N , 8 ° 27 ′ 32" E
- At the Zeilsheim / Hofheim junction, it joins the A 66 motorway, which it maintains until the Eschborn triangle . Here, too, it becomes the borderline again: between Frankfurt-Unterliederbach , Frankfurt-Sossenheim and Frankfurt-Rödelheim on the one hand and Schwalbach am Taunus and Eschborn on the other. 50 ° 5 ′ 51 ″ N , 8 ° 29 ′ 7 ″ E
- After a bridge over the Sulzbach in the Sulzbach (Taunus) community of the same name, the historic Lindenweg to the Saalburg-Sattel and also the Hessian Wine Road , coming from the Nidda estuary at Höchst, crossed the Elisabethenstraße at the Helle Burg , which was also a station built on the Boniface Route . 50 ° 7 '22 " N , 8 ° 33' 6.9" E
- South of Eschborn, the street name changes from Alfred-Herrhausen-Allee / Wilhelm-Fay-Strasse to Stuttgarter Strasse , and then takes on the historical name again after crossing the Westerbach . 50 ° 7 ′ 56 " N , 8 ° 34 ′ 34" E
- In the Praunheim area it is called Heerstraße . 50 ° 8 ′ 28 " N , 8 ° 35 ′ 50" E
- It moves past the old town center of Praunheim over the former Heidenfeld into what has been known as Römerstadt ( In der Römerstadt ) since 1927 . The end point and destination of the Roman city of Nida was the forum, which was roughly at the level of today's Heddernheim cemetery. 50 ° 9 ′ 15 " N , 8 ° 38 ′ 16" E
Identical names
Although it does not correspond to the original route, there is still a street in Mainz-Kastel called Elisabethenstraße.
Web links
literature
- Dietwulf Baatz in: Dietwulf Baatz and Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann (eds.): The Romans in Hessen . Licensed edition of the 3rd edition from 1989. Nikol, Hamburg 2002, p. 110, ISBN 3-933203-58-9 .
- Traces of time - aerial archeology in Hessen. Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Wiesbaden 1993 p. 90f.