Lindenweg
Map with all coordinates: The Lindenweg or Linienweg is a historical, presumably pre-Roman old road that led from the confluence of the Nidda into the Main near Höchst to the Taunus transition at the Saalburg saddle .
This completely straight connection stretched over a length of almost 19 kilometers to the Taunus - at the level of the Roman Elisabethenstraße the Hessian Wine Road turned north-east into the Wetterau . The alignment of the first wooden fort of the Saalburg on the axis of the Lindenweg is an indication of its existence in Roman times.
conservation
As of almost all Roman roads in the region, nothing of the Lindenweg is visible above ground today. If it was developed as a local connection by the Romans, it should have received a stone layer with gravel. The course can be reconstructed using today's roads and dirt roads.
Probable course
- Starting point on the banks of the Main in Frankfurt-Höchst , there was a ford to cross the Main. 50 ° 5 '57.7 " N , 8 ° 33' 3.2" E
- Zuckschwerdtstrasse at the railway underpass. 50 ° 6 '11.8 " N , 8 ° 33' 6.8" E
- Karl-Blum-Allee or street at Höchst cemetery, continued in the field. 50 ° 6 '54.6 " N , 8 ° 33' 5.7" E
- Dirt road with level crossing of the Soden Railway . 50 ° 7 '12.5 " N , 8 ° 33' 6.8" E
- Crossing Elisabethenstrasse (today A 66 ), here the Weinstrasse turned into the Wetterau. 50 ° 7 '19.8 " N , 8 ° 33' 6.8" E
- In the area between Eschborn and Schwalbach, no traces of the terrain can be seen in the aerial photo or in the current street layout.
- Only behind the Heidenwald after the Oberhöchstädter Waldsiedlung is the name Lindenweg found again - although the forest lane of the same name leads in a different direction. 50 ° 11 '26.2 " N , 8 ° 33' 34.6" E
- At Oberursel the Lindenweg crosses the Maasgrund, here too no traces of the terrain can be seen in the aerial photo or in the current street layout.
- The sports facility in Oberstedten is located on Lindenweg and is geared towards him. 50 ° 13 '58.4 " N , 8 ° 33' 45" E
- Behind the Elisabethenschneise in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe you can find the name Lindenweg . 50 ° 14 '16.4 " N , 8 ° 33' 49.4" E
- About 300 meters east of the Hirschgarten , this road crossed the Heuchelbach and led in a straight line up to the top of the pass. This route led to the slight gradient of 1.6%
- The Lindenweg meets the Stellweg in front of the Saalburg Fort; today there is a replica of Jupiter's column, which was based on a column from the Roman vicus novus , part of the Roman city of Nida in Frankfurt-Heddernheim . 50 ° 15 '27.5 " N , 8 ° 33' 56.6" O and 50 ° 15 '58.7 " N , 8 ° 34' 0.2" O
literature
- Heinrich Jacobi : The Saalburg Castle . In: Ernst Fabricius , F. Hettner, O. von Sarwey (eds.): The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes of the Roemerreich . Department B, Volume 2.1, Fort No. 11. pp. 6-9 ( The old streets ). Petters, Berlin and Leipzig 1937.
- 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, pp. 5, 6, 72, 73, 75, 78–80, 90, 95. Ravenstein, Frankfurt am Main 1913.
Individual evidence
- ↑ For the preservation of Roman roads in Hesse see Traces of Time - Luftbildarchäologie in Hessen. Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Wiesbaden 1993 p. 90f .; on maintenance and construction Dietwulf Baatz in: D. Baatz and Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann (eds.): The Romans in Hessen. Licensed edition of the 3rd edition from 1989. Nikol, Hamburg 2002 p. 110f. ISBN 3-933203-58-9 .