Corbulonis fossa

Map of the course of the canal

Map of the likely coastline

The Fossa Corbulonis was a Roman waterway that connected the Rhine at Matilo with the Meuse . The canal was built from  AD 47 under the Roman commander Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo . The fossa was 23 Roman miles (34.5 km) long. Their width varied between 12 and 14 meters, the water depth was two meters. The canal connected to the Rhine near the Matilo auxiliary camp (near today's Leiden ) and ran from there in a south-westerly direction. The waterway passed the area of ​​today's Voorburg ( Forum Hadriani ) and ended in the area west of today's Hoek van Holland on the Nieuwe Maas . The Fossa Corbulonis is considered a hydraulic engineering masterpiece of its time and can still be seen in sections today in the terrain.

Long after the Fossa Corbulonis silted was, which was the Rhine-Schie canal dug which only partially has the same course.

See also

• Fossa Drusiana
• Lower Germanic Limes

Web links

Commons : Corbulo Canal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jona Lendering: Fossa Corbulonis . In: Livius.org (English)
• Kanaal van Corbulo - fossa Corbulonis on cultuurwijzer.nl, an official website for the cultural heritage of the Netherlands, accessed on May 20, 2017 (Dutch)

literature

• Jan-Willem de Kort and Yannick Raczynski-Henk: The Fossa Corbulonis between the Rhine and Meuse estuaries in the Western Netherlands . Water Hist (2014) 6, pp. 51-71.
• Jan-Willem de Kort: Het Kanaal van Corbulo. Onderzoek naar een Romeinse waterweg in de gemeente Leidschendam-Voorburg tussen 1989 and 2010 . Westerheem 5.62 (2013), pp. 233–243.
• RAAP Archeologische Adviesbureau (Ed. :) Canaal van Corbulo op de kaart . RAAP Nieuwsbrief 2006-2, p. 7.