Fort Dettingen unter Teck
Map with all coordinates: | Fort Dettingen unter Teck | |
|---|---|
| limes | ORL NN ( RLK ) |
| Route (RLK) | Lautertal-Limes |
| Dating (occupancy) | Possibly. already Domitian , but no later than the end of the 1st century to the middle of the 2nd century AD. |
| Type | Numerus fort |
| unit | unknown number or vexillation |
| size | 60 × 60 m = 0.36 ha |
| Construction | Wood and earth fort |
| State of preservation | ground monument visible in aerial photographs |
| place | Dettingen under Teck |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 36 '4.7 " N , 9 ° 27" 7.4 " E |
| height | 360 m above sea level NHN |
| Previous | Kastell Köngen (northwest, Neckar-Odenwald-Limes ) |
| Subsequently | Fort Donnstetten (south-southeast, Alblimes ) |
The fort Dettingen unter Teck was a Roman military camp of the Lautertal-Limes . It is located as a ground monument under an agricultural area south of Dettingen unter Teck , a municipality in the Esslingen district in Baden-Württemberg .
location
The Dettingen fort is located in the lowlands of the Lautertal , about 100 m east of today's federal highway 465 between Dettingen and Owen unter Teck in the “Bodenäcker” and “Heufach” areas.
In ancient times it served the direct protection of the so-called “Lautertal Limes”, a connecting border security between the “ Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes ” in the north and the “ Alblimes ” in the south. This ran as a palisade construction between the Grinario ( Köngen ) at its northern end and Clarenna ( Donnstetten ) at the southern end . In addition to the palisade, it was secured by two pointed ditches.
Research history
In the dry summer of 1976, the small fort near Dettingen was discovered through an aerial archaeological survey of the so-called Sibylle Trail carried out by Alfred Brugger . The aerial photographs were evaluated and confirmed by the archaeological monument conservator in the Stuttgart administrative district, Dieter Planck . The subsequent archaeological excavations by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office in 1982 showed that the finding is a Roman military camp and the sibyl trail is a Limes , the so-called Lautertal Limes.
Fort
The fort of Dettingen unter Teck was surrounded on all sides by a circumferential 2 to 2.2 m wide pointed ditch , of which only a remaining depth of 0.7 m was preserved due to the post- fort period, which continues to this day for agricultural use of the site . Four post pits on the inside suggest a wood-earth wall behind. The Roman camp, with its dimensions of 60 m by 60 m (= 0.36 ha), belongs to the group of so-called numerus forts. Like almost all military camps of this fortification size, the camp offered space for a crew of 80 to 100 men, a number or a similarly large vexillation as a detachment of a larger auxiliary unit . Details of the troops stationed here are just as little known as details of the interior of the camp.
The dating was carried out using the fragments of Terra Sigillata bowls and plates, through which the fort could be assigned to the end of the 1st century AD. It may have been built as early as the Domitian period, around 85 to 90 AD. It lasted until the middle of the second century AD, around the years 150/160.
Monument protection and remains
The Dettingen fort and the above-mentioned ground monuments are protected as 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.
The finds from the excavations are in the collection of the Württemberg State Museum in the Old Castle in Stuttgart .
See also
literature
- Dieter Planck : Dettingen under Teck. Lautertallimes. In: Dieter Planck (Ed.): The Romans in Baden-Württemberg . Pp. 61-63. Theiss, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-8062-1555-3
- Dieter Planck: Dettingen under Teck. Lautertallimes. In: Philipp Filtzinger , Dieter Planck and Bernhard Cämmerer (eds.): The Romans in Baden-Württemberg. 3rd edition, pp. 268-270. Theiss, Stuttgart 1986. ISBN 3-8062-0287-7
- Dieter Planck: A new Roman Limes in Württemberg . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Archaeological excavations in Baden-Württemberg 1982 . Pp. 94-99. Theiss, Stuttgart 1982. ISBN 3-8062-0339-3 .
Remarks
- ↑ Blickweiler main potter and drag. 18/31. For Blickweiler see Robert Knorr and Friedrich Sprater: The West Palatinate Sigillata Pottery from Blickweiler and Eschweilerhof . Historical Museum of the Palatinate, Speier [sic!] On the Rhine 1927.