List of forts in the Danube-Iller-Rhein-Limes
The list of forts of the Danube-Iller-Rhein-Limes includes the late Roman military camps on the imperial border and the road connections in the hinterland, as well as the previously known burgi / watchtowers that control and defend the Roman provinces
- Germania I ,
- Maxima Sequanorum ,
- Raetia I and
- Raetia II
served in what is now Germany , France , Switzerland , Liechtenstein and Austria .
The list is from north to south or west to east along the rivers Rhine (including Lake Constance), Iller and Danube.
The route or the division of sections is based on the late antique provincial borders.
- Germania prima (route 1) starts at Neumagen (Germany) and ends at Benfeld-Ehl (France).
- Maxima Sequanorum (route 2) starts at Sasbach-Jechtingen (Germany) and ends at Irgenhausen (Switzerland).
- Raetia prima (route 3) starts at Konstanz (Germany) and ends at Schaan (Liechtenstein).
- Raetia secunda (route 4) starts at Isny (Germany) and ends at Regensburg (Germany).
Castles and Burgi
Germania I (France / Germany)
Maxima Sequanorum (France / Germany / Switzerland)
Raetia I (Germany / Austria / Switzerland / Liechtenstein)
Fort | Closest place |
Fort Constance ( Constantia ) | Constancy |
Arbon Castle ( Arbore ) |
Arbon |
Fort Pfyn ( ad fines , rearward) | Pfyn |
Brigantium ( Brecantia ) | Bregenz |
Burgus Hörbranz | Hörbranz |
Burgus Gwiggen | Hohenweiler-Gwiggen |
Burgus Hohenweiler | Hohenweiler |
Burgus Burgstall | |
Burgus Waldburg | Forest castle |
Burgus colloquial | |
Burgus Opfenbach | Opfenbach |
Burgus Mellatz | Mellatz |
Burgus Heimenkirch | Heimenkirch |
Burgus three saints | Three saints |
Burgus Oberhäuser | Upper houses |
Schaan Castle (to the rear) | Schaan |
Raetia II (Germany, Austria)
See also
- limes
- Lower Germanic Limes
- List of forts on the Upper German-Raetian Limes
- List of forts in Noricum and Upper Pannonia
- List of Limes forts in Hungary
- List of Limes forts in Croatia and Serbia
- List of Limes forts in Dacia
literature
- Claudia Theune : Teutons and Romans in the Alamannia. Structural changes due to the archaeological sources from the 3rd to the 7th century (= supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Volume 45). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2004, ISBN 3-11-017866-4 , pp. 410-422.
- Jochen Garbsch : The late Roman Danube-Iller-Rhine-Limes (= small writings on the knowledge of the Roman occupation history of southwest Germany. No. 6). Society for Prehistory and Early History in Württemberg and Hohenzollern, Stuttgart 1970.
- Norbert Hasler, Jörg Heiligmann, Markus Höneisen, Urs Leutzinger, Helmut Swozilek (eds.): In the protection of mighty walls. Late Roman forts in the Lake Constance area. Archaeological State Museum Baden-Württemberg, Frauenfeld 2005, ISBN 3-9522941-1-X .
Remarks
- ↑ Theune 2004, pp. 410-422.