Long Mile (Römerstrasse)
The Long Mile or Homburg Long Mile is a historic old street that was already used in Roman times and led from Frankfurt-Preungesheim over the Niddabrücke near Frankfurt-Bonames to the Saalburg . This straight line connection ran NNW-towards the Taunus. It is probably a local connection ( via vicinalis ), which connected a road running north from the Main crossing at the cathedral hill with the Saalburg and passed the Roman town of Nida-Heddernheim to the north. It flowed into the west of Bad HomburgSaalburgstrasse , which also led to the fort.
The entire course of the road has almost completely disappeared in the terrain. Partly it can still be seen in the aerial photo , other parts are still used today as roads or paths:
- The beginning up to the old Nidda bridge is almost congruent with the Homburger Landstrasse , which today runs around the Bonames train station . However, the Roman bridge was east of the medieval Nidda bridge, which was drained in the course of the last Nidda regulation. 50 ° 10 ′ 13.2 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 31.2" E
- In Roman times, a resting and changing station, a mansio , was assumed at the intersection with Elisabethenstrasse , while in the Middle Ages Bonames Castle was nearby . In Frankfurt-Bonames, the long mile can still be recognized by the direction and the street names Kirchhofsweg and Homburger Hohl in today's streets. 50 ° 11 '2.2 " N , 8 ° 39' 51.9" E
- Via today's Berner Strasse and parallel to the 661 federal motorway, it reached the Ober-Eschbacher district boundary; Even today it is shown as a long mile field path in today's maps, it runs along the southwestern Nieder-Eschbacher district boundary to Kalbach , which can often be seen on Roman roads . 50 ° 12 '49 .2 " N , 8 ° 37' 53.2" E
- At the entrance to Bad Homburg it then meets the Europakreisel at the Hohlebrunnen - here too it is still preserved as a street name. 50 ° 13 '17.2 " N , 8 ° 37' 42.9" E
- Due to the current development, few traces have been preserved in the Bad Homburg urban area, in the Ober-Eschbach district a Roman relay station as an inn and horse-changing station is suspected in the immediate vicinity - in Gonzenheim Georg Wolff was already familiar with several Roman buildings and country estates in 1913 (Villa rustica in the corridor “Am Steingritz”) - in Kirdorf it moves through the old town center. 50 ° 14 ′ 28 " N , 8 ° 36 ′ 38.4" E
- Via Usinger Strasse, it probably met Saalburg Chaussee north of Carlsbrücke, today's B 456 , where it ended. 50 ° 15 '26.9 " N , 8 ° 35' 14.7" E
- The Long Mile in Frankfurt-Kalbach 50 ° 11 ′ 25.2 ″ N , 8 ° 38 ′ 21.7 ″ E was a medieval branch of the Homburg Long Mile , which reached the main route at the height of the "Am Hirschsprung" corridor 50 ° 12 '33.6 " N , 8 ° 37' 53.7" O .
Map with all coordinates of the street: OSM | WikiMap
literature
- Margarete Dohrn-Ihmig, Andrea Hampel, Ludwig Döry (eds.): Frankfurter Fundchronik der Jahre 1980–1986 , Habelt, Frankfurt am Main 1987, pp. 105–109, p. 178, fig. 32/34/96
- Georg Wolff : The southern Wetterau in prehistoric and early historical times. (With an archaeological find map). Published by the Roman-Germanic Commission of the Imperial Archaeological Institute, Ravenstein, Frankfurt am Main 1913.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Wolff 1913 p. 39 and map supplement.
- ↑ Frankfurter Find Chronicle 1980–1986. P. 178 fig. 96.
- ↑ Monument Office Frankfurt, 2007, (see also BON 12)
- ↑ Archaeological Monuments in Hesse / Vol. 130, Wiesbaden 1996, Bonames Castle
- ↑ Frankfurter Findchronik 1980–1986 (see list of literature) pp. 172–175
- ↑ Frankfurter Findchronik 1980–1986 (see list of literature) p. 178