Heinrich Steimle

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Heinrich Steimle

Heinrich Steimle , with full name Heinrich Karl August Steimle (* 1846 in Schwäbisch Gmünd , † June 10, 1907 ) was a Württemberg major and Limes researcher .

Act

After his retirement as an officer in Württemberg in 1889, he lived in Stuttgart and from 1891 to 1892 he participated in the Archaeological Land Survey, a project that was to record all of the land's monuments visible above ground as well as all ground monuments. When the Reich Limes Commission was established, Steimle was appointed route commissioner for route 12 on the Upper German-Raetian Limes . In this function he examined a number of Roman forts in southwest Germany, which he published for the great work The Upper German-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire .

In his hometown Schwäbisch Gmünd, the Heinrich-Steimle-Weg reminds of him. From 1886 to 1888 he and General Eduard von Kallee excavated the fort at the Schirenhof here . In Aalen , Steimlestrasse by the Limes Museum is named after him.

Trivia

During the excavation in the Schirenhof fort, members of the Schwäbisch Gmünder garrison took the liberty of joking. They let him find a rusty sword with the inscription: " Julius Caesar, his friend Major Steimle ". Steimle is said to have resented them for a long time.

Publications

  • The Böckingen fort , 1898 in The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roman Empire, Section B Volume 5
  • Lorch Fort , 1897 in Section B Volume 6
  • The Schierenhof Fort near Schwäbisch Gmünd , 1897 Section B Volume 6
  • Unterböbingen Fort , 1894, Section B Volume 6
  • Aalen Fort , 1904, Section B Volume 6
  • Halheim Fort , 1901, Section B Volume 6

literature

  • Oscar Paret : The prehistory and early history of the landscape around Schwäbisch Gmünd , in: Schwäbisch Gmünd. Contributions to the city's past and present , ed. by Peter Scherer, Stuttgart 1971, pp. 269-290, here pp. 269f.
  • Rainer Braun: Early research on the Upper German Limes in Baden-Württemberg. In memory of the founding of the Reich Limes Commission in 1892 (= publications of the Limes Museum Aalen 45). Limesmuseum, Aalen 1991, pp. 110 and 138.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Stütz: Homeland and hiking book for the Gmünder area , Verlags- und Druckerei-Gesellschaft mbH ( Rems-Zeitung ), Schwäbisch Gmünd 1919, p. 77.

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personal data
SURNAME Steimle, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wuerttemberg officer and Limes researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1907