Hunnerberg

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Hunnerberg
province Gelderland Gelderland
local community Flag of the municipality of Nijmegen Nijmegen
Area
 - land
 - water 		1.01  km 2
1.01 km 2
0 km 2
Residents 3,830 (Jan 1, 2017)
Coordinates 51 ° 51 '  N , 5 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '  N , 5 ° 53'  E
Important traffic route N325
prefix 024
Postcodes 6521-6523, 6574
Location of Hunnerberg in the municipality of Nijmegen
Location of Hunnerberg in the municipality of NijmegenTemplate: Infobox location in the Netherlands / maintenance / map

The Hunnerberg is a district of Nijmegen on an elongated hill on the banks of the Waal . Geologically the Hunnerberg while the Saale-Ice Age as a terminal moraine created. The location made it an important strategic point, which is why the Romans set up a legionary camp here at the beginning of the second decade before Christianity, the Canabae legionis of which later developed into the Municipium Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum , the nucleus of today's Nijmegen. However, archaeological finds from the Neolithic , the Bronze and Iron Ages were also made. On the northwestern foothills of the Hunnerberg is the Valkhofpark with the remains of the medieval imperial palace .

literature

  • Johan HF Bloemers: The Augustan camps and the Flavian-Trajan canabae legionis in Nijmegen . In: Dorothea Haupt and Heinz Günter Horn : Studies on the military borders of Rome II. Lectures of the 10th International Limes Congress in the Germania inferior . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7927-0270-3 , p. 87.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on July 16, 2018 (Dutch)
  2. ^ Johan HF Bloemers: The Augustan camps and the Flavian-Trajan canabae legionis in Nijmegen . In: Dorothea Haupt and Heinz Günter Horn : Studies on the military borders of Rome II. Lectures of the 10th International Limes Congress in the Germania inferior . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7927-0270-3 , p. 87.