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The Trebur-Geinsheim discovery area in southern Hesse has a large number of Roman camps . It is an area near the Kornsand residential area in the Geinsheim am Rhein district in the municipality of Trebur in Hesse on the right bank of the Rhine . It is considered the most important site of the early Roman Empire in the Hessian Ried .

The point was 20 km or about a day's march from Mogontiacum . Obviously, a spot was secured here that enabled a reasonably dry passage through the Rheinaue to cross the Rhine . The Roman base may also have served as protection on the right bank of the Rhine for a Buconica situated on the left bank of the Rhine .

In the 1980s, aerial photo archaeologist Otto Braasch and Trebur-based collector Eugen Schenkel found evidence of the Roman camps. Since then, seven Roman camps have been located on an area of ​​60 hectares. The fortifications of the camps include double and triple trenches. The largest warehouse is 18 hectares. Based on the coin finds, a first phase is dated to the period between 20/25 and 40 AD. More recent evaluations, however, date the first phase to the time from shortly after 14 to 39 AD. A second phase is dated to the period from 70 to 110 AD.

Alexander Heising from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main was one of the digging archaeologists .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alexander Heising: Groß-Gerau district. Investigation of an important Roman military site during the autopsy phase. In: hessenARCHÄOLOGIE 2007. State Office for Archaeological Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.), Stuttgart, 2008.
  2. ↑ Roman camp secured Buconica. In: Allgemeine Zeitung, March 3, 2010. Helmut Wernher: Roman camp protected Buconica. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. June 22, 2011 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Ralf Scharf: The Dux Mogontiacensis and the Notitia Dignitatum. A study of late antique border defense. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2005 ( excerpt online ).
  4. ↑ Thomas Maurer: New findings on the early Roman military presence in the Hessian Rhine plain, p. 1318

literature

  • Norbert Hanel , David G. Wigg : The newly discovered military camp near Trebur-Geinsheim (Hessen) and the Roman occupation of the northern Hessian Ried. In: W. Groenman-van Waateringe, et al. (Ed.), Roman Frontier Studies 1995. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (Kerkrade, August 25 - August 31, 1995). Oxbow Monographies 91 (Oxford 1997) 41-45.
  • Norbert Hanel: Newly discovered Roman camps near Trebur-Geinsheim and Nauheim. Preservation of monuments and cultural history 1998, no. 2, 58–60.
  • Norbert Hanel: The early imperial military camp of Trebur-Geinsheim (South Hesse). Considerations about their range of coins and their strategic function. In: R. Wiegels (Hrsg.), The found coins of Kalkriese and the early imperial coinage. Files of the scientific congress in Kalkriese, 15. – 16. April 1999, Möhnesee, 2000, 171–177.
  • Alexander Heising, Thomas Maurer: A new early imperial military camp near Groß-Gerau-Wallerstädten. Hessen Archeology 2005 (2006) 75–77.
  • Thomas Maurer : The northern Hessian Ried in Roman times. Studies on the history of the landscape and settlement in the right bank of the Rhine from Mainz from the 1st to the 5th century AD Habelt, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-7749-3660-7 ( summary ).
  • Thomas Maurer: New findings on the early Roman military presence in the Hessian Rhine plain , In: A. Morillo, N. Hanel, E. Martín (eds.): Limes XX. XXth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies , León 2006. Anejos de Gladius 13/1, Madrid 2009, pp. 1317–1328.

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 12 ″  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 12 ″  E