Small fort "An der Altheimer Straße"
Map with all coordinates: | Small fort "An der Altheimer Straße" | |
|---|---|
| limes | ORL - ( RLK ) |
| Route (RLK) |
Upper German Limes , Front Limes, route 7 |
| Dating (occupancy) | 1st half of the 3rd century AD |
| Type | Small fort |
| size | 42.48 (43.40) m × 37.92 (33.10) m (= 1,600 m²) |
| Construction | stone |
| State of preservation | not visible in the forest floor |
| place | Book -Hettingen |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 32 '42.8 " N , 9 ° 23' 0.8" E |
| height | 450 m above sea level NHN |
| Previous | Walldürn Fort (north) |
| Subsequently | Small fort Hönehaus (south) |
The small fort "An der Altheimer Straße" was a Roman military camp on the so-called "Front Limes" of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes . It was located on the 450 meter high Rehberg in the "Great Forest" near Hettingen , town of Buchen in the Neckar-Odenwald district . Nothing of the system is visible above ground today.
Location and research history
The ground monument is located south of a Limes break. This is where a stretch of the Roman border fortifications that runs over 80 kilometers from north to south begins. The surrounding landscape is very hilly and has deep valley cuts. The view from the camp site was limited due to the Rehberg rising north, west and south. From here, however, the east, the unoccupied Germania , could be observed with the Limes palisade passing a little deeper. There was also visual contact with the nearest northern and southern presumed watchtowers that had been erected on the outer flanks of the mountain hollow in which the small camp was located. Only around 350 m to the south-east, the surveyors could have found a much cheaper place from which a wide panoramic view would have been possible in a dominant position. A little later the small fort Hönehaus was built there .
In 1892, the Reichs-Limeskommission (RLK) under the line commissioner Wilhelm Conrady (1829-1903) dug this place.
Building history
Even their excavator Conrady found that the rectangular, slightly displaced, 42.48 (43.40) × 37.92 (33.10) meter (= 1,600 square meter) fortification could not have been built before the third century, i.e. one belongs to the late phase of the “Outer Limes”. Since the RLK could not find any evidence of a cultural layer and found material was not found anywhere else, research assumes that this fort was either not completed at all, was never used or was only very briefly occupied. In terms of time, the “An der Altheimer Straße” facility is to be located just before the construction of the nearby Hönehaus small fort.
During the excavation it was found that the fortification only had a gate to the east, towards the Limes, the cheeks of which were drawn inwards.
Monument protection
The small fort "An der Altheimer Straße" and the aforementioned ground monuments have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage as a section of the Upper German-Rhaetian Limes since 2005 . In addition, the facilities are cultural monuments according to the Monument Protection Act of the State of Baden-Württemberg (DSchG) . Investigations and targeted collection of finds are subject to approval, and accidental finds are reported to the monument authorities.
See also
literature
- Dietwulf Baatz : The Roman Limes. Archaeological excursions between the Rhine and the Danube . 4th edition, Mann, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7861-2347-0 , p. 234 f.
- Willi Beck, Dieter Planck : The Limes in Southwest Germany. 2nd edition, Theiss, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-8062-0242-7 .
- Christian Fleer: Typification and function of the small buildings on the Limes. In: E. Schallmayer (Ed.): Limes Imperii Romani. Contributions to the specialist colloquium “World Heritage Limes”, November 2001 in Lich-Arnsburg. (= Saalburg writings 6) Bad Homburg v. d. H. 2004, ISBN 3-931267-05-9 , pp. 75-92.
Remarks
- ^ Philipp Filtzinger (Ed.): The Romans in Baden-Württemberg . Theiss, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3806202877 , p. 263.
- ↑ Dieter Planck : New research on the Upper Germanic and Raetian Limes . In: Hildegard Temporini (ed.): The rise and fall of the Roman world . Part 2, Volume 5, 1, de Gruyter, Berlin – New York 1976, ISBN 3110066904 , p. 419.
