Roman Bridge (Adriach)

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The bridge in December 2011

The Roman bridge in Adriach probably dates from the 2nd or 3rd century AD and is located in the municipality of Frohnleiten in Styria . It has been a listed building since 1967 .

location

The bridge is located north of the Kugelstein in the Frohnleitner district of Adriach , near Badl and today's Murhof golf course , and was part of the road that led in the Mur Valley from Flavia Solva to the north via Poedicum (today Bruck) and from there to Stiriate (today Liezen) . The route of this road ( called Römerstraße ) can still be seen for a few hundred meters on the mountain slope south of the bridge and is also a listed building . The area around the bridge itself was used as a gravel pit ( Glettler gravel works ) around 1960 , which was backfilled after it was abandoned. A sewer construction for the Peggau-Deutschfeistritz power plant around 1906 had already changed the site. The area around the bridge therefore no longer corresponds to the original surroundings of the bridge, which previously led over a ditch about 6–7 meters deep.

A bridge at St. Dionysen has also been preserved from the Roman road .

history

The bridge is dated to Roman times in the 2nd or 3rd century AD. Their ancient origins are not certain because the building technology does not differ from medieval or modern stone bridges. Radiocarbon dating was attempted, but was not possible because the lime mortar contained too few organic residues. The bridge is not listed in the two most comprehensive published catalogs of Roman bridges. The Roman post office found in Adriach, however, suggests a possible Roman era background. South of the globular stone (about 500 meters southeast of the bridge) two Roman milestones were found in 1906, Roman grave finds have also been published in this area.

Originally, the structure spanned a stream that has now dried up. In 1967 it was restored and placed under monument protection.

description

Side view

The bridge has a total length of 6.5 meters and has a semicircular barrel vault . The clear width is around 3.4 meters, while the clear span is around 3.8 meters. The height is 1.9 meters on the valley side and 1.65 meters on the slope side, originally it was about 6–7 meters. There are two parapet walls around 50 centimeters thick and 25 and 40 centimeters high on the sides. The vault is around 60 centimeters. Quarry stone, which was laid in lime mortar , was mostly used for construction .

literature

  • Gerald Fuchs, Ingo Mirsch: The forerunners of the S 35 Brucker Schnellstraße . Traffic routes between Graz and Bruck an der Mur in Styria. Find reports from Austria, material booklets. Series A (FÖMat A), special issue 14th published by the Federal Monuments Office , Department of Ground Monuments . ISSN as stated in the book 1993–1271 (wrong, correct ISSN  1993-1255 ) Vienna 2011. pp. 25–28.
  • Manfred Wehdorn, Ute Georgeacopol-Winischhofer, Paul W. Roth: Architectural monuments of technology and industry in Austria . 2, Styria and Carinthia. Böhlau Verlag Gesellschaft mbH and Co. KG, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-205-05202-1 , p. 4–5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

See also

Web links

Commons : Römerbrücke (Adriach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 ′ 35.6 ″  N , 15 ° 19 ′ 43.5 ″  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fuchs, Mirsch: Vorläufer , pp. 14-25, with pictures and drawings of the course.
  2. ↑ Fuchs, Mirsch: Vorläufer , p. 15.
  3. ↑ Manfred Wehdorn, Ute Georgeacopol-Winischhofer, Paul W. Roth: architectural monuments of technology and industry in Austria . 2, Styria and Carinthia. Böhlau Verlag Gesellschaft mbH and Co. KG, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-205-05202-1 , p. 4–5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ Fuchs, Mirsch: Vorläufer , p. 25.
  5. ↑ Fuchs, Mirsch: Vorläufer , p. 28, footnote 28.
  6. ^ Galliazzo, Vittorio: I ponti romani. Catalogo generale , Vol. 2, Edizioni Canova, Treviso 1994, ISBN 88-85066-66-6 , pp. 235 f. (Austria)
  7. ^ O'Connor, Colin: Roman Bridges , Cambridge University Press 1993, ISBN 0-521-39326-4 , pp. 200 f. (The east)
  8. ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85028-439-5 , p. 7 .
  9. ↑ Fuchs, Mirsch: Vorläufer , pp. 13-14.
  10. ↑ Fuchs, Mirsch: Vorläufer , pp. 17, 24.
  11. ↑ Fuchs, Mirsch: Vorläufer , p. 26.