Roman Museum Obernburg

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The Obernburg Roman Museum in Obernburg am Main , a town in the Miltenberg district in Lower Franconia , shows predominantly Roman finds from the Obernburg fort and the associated settlement. The museum is located in Untere Wallstraße 29a below Obernburg's old town near the Main .

Exterior view of the museum
Replica of a giant column of Jupiter in front of the museum

exhibition

In the entrance area, a model of the city illustrates the history of Obernburg and the topography in Roman times. The showpiece of the museum is the large stone collection on the ground floor. It contains, among other things, the inscription stones of the beneficiarii consulares , the building inscription from the staff building of the cohort fort as well as fragments of several Jupiter giant columns . In front of the museum there is a reconstruction of such a column.

Interesting is a group of inscriptions donated by members of vexillationes of the Legio XXII Primigenia from Mainz , who were posted here as logging commands (in lignariis) . They prove that the low mountain range Spessart and Odenwald as well as the Main (and possibly the Mümling ) were used for fighting and transport in military direction. There are other inscription finds of this kind in Stockstadt and Trennfurt am Main.

While a Mithras stone with a modeled sanctuary ( Mithraeum ) is presented in the basement , grave and consecration stones on the mezzanine level illustrate the cult of gods and the dead. The upper floor contains mainly small finds from the Roman period such as tools, fibulas, cosmetic and medical instruments, ceramics and coins. Particularly noteworthy is a Roman glass bowl from the 4th century AD, one of the earliest Christian evidence of the region due to its decoration. Another large room can be used for temporary exhibitions.

future

As a result of the Obernburg beneficiary station excavated between 2000 and 2007 , especially the numerous new finds of dedicatory inscriptions, the museum has meanwhile become too small. In addition, in the museum development plan of the application for the inclusion of the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes in the list of UNESCO World Heritage, the expansion into a national museum is planned. As the second central Bavarian museum, it is intended to present the Main Limes and the legal system of the Roman Empire. On January 25, 2007, the city council therefore passed a decision in principle to rebuild the museum on the basis of a previous feasibility study and formed a planning group for a “Main Limes Central Museum”.

A new city council resolution of July 13, 2009 calls for these plans to be stopped. The main points of contention in the city council and the public discussion are the financing of construction and maintenance as well as the hoped-for economic stimulus from the museum. In this case, the historically significant finds will probably be exhibited in the state capital Munich or at another fort location on the Main. A successful referendum to continue the planning resulted in a referendum , which was scheduled for September 27, 2009. The citizens of Obernburg decided against continuing the planning with 64.97%.

  • Building inscription from the principia from AD 162.

  • Rider of a giant column of Jupiter from Obernburg with the three-spoke wheel, attribute of the Celtic god Taranis, probably local interpretation.

  • Roman inscription from Obernburg with reference to the logging command of Legio XXII Primigenia .

  • Late Roman glass bowl with Christian motifs.

  • Apollo with lyre

  • One of the beneficiaries dedicatory inscriptions

literature

  • Bernhard Beckmann in: Dietwulf Baatz and Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann: The Romans in Hesse. Licensed edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-933203-58-9 , p. 459.
  • Egon Schallmayer : The Odenwald Limes. Along the Roman border between the Main and Neckar. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2309-5 , pp. 155f.
  • Bernd Steidl : World Heritage Limes - Rome's border on the Main . Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Archäologische Staatssammlung München 2008. Logo, Obernburg 2008, ISBN 3-939462-06-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The number of stones found in Obernburg is impressive, a much larger part has so far been unpublished due to the new discoveries: CIL 13, 06624 ; AE 2001, 01540 ; AE 2002, 01067 ; AE 2004, 01009 ; AE 1957, 00050 ; AE 1957, 00052 ; AE 1957, 00047 ; AE 1957, 00048 ; AE 1957, 00049 ; AE 1957, 00051 and a.
  2. ↑ a b AE 1923, 00030 .
  3. ↑ CIL 13, 06623 as well as Helmut Castritius, Manfred Clauss, Leo Hefner: The Roman stone inscriptions of the Odenwald (RSO) . Contributions to the investigation of the Odenwald 2, 1977, pp. 237-308. No. 28.
  4. ↑ D. Baatz in Baatz / Herrmann 2002 (see list of references), p. 103.
  5. ↑ Minutes of the public city council meeting of Obernburg am Main on January 25, 2007 (pdf)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.obernburg.de  
  6. ↑ Minutes of the public city council meeting of Obernburg am Main on July 13, 2009 (pdf)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.obernburg.de  
  7. ↑ Voting result ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.obernburg.de
  8. ↑ Helmut Castritius, Manfred Clauss, Leo Hefner: The Roman stone inscriptions of the Odenwald (RSO). Contributions to the investigation of the Odenwald 2, 1977, pp. 237-308. No. 28.

Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '24.5 "  N , 9 ° 8" 53.8 "  E