Roman Villa Kohlerfeld
The Roman Villa Kohlerfeld is located in the Aigen district of the Austrian city of Salzburg on the right-hand side of Aigner Straße heading out of town towards Glasenbach , just before the Ursuline School.
Gragungsgeschichte
The existence of a villa rustica in this area is known from the first test excavations in 1817 . Buildings are marked by two mounds of rubble, one of which has been exposed with underfloor heating and mosaics. In 1869/70 further excavations were carried out by the owner in view of leveling measures in the building, which had already been partially exposed, and on the second larger rubble hill further north. In 1907 additional excavations were carried out southwest of the great rubble hill. In 1990 parts of a Noric-Pannonian burial mound south of the ruins were examined.
In 2006 a geophysical survey of the entire site was carried out. An area of 6 ha was geomagnetically investigated. Further surveys were carried out using ground penetrating radar and geoelectrics . The measurement results led to the discovery of numerous other buildings and the surrounding wall of the entire facility in the vicinity of the old excavations. A necropolis was also found near the villa complex. This enables statements to be made regarding the course of the Roman road Virunum - Iuvavum in this area.
Situation today
Today the terrain has been leveled and the Roman walls are almost invisible. Archaeological and art-historical support (e.g. in the sense of a sign) is currently not taking place. Some of the finds are kept in the Salzburg Museum , the objects that remained in place were destroyed by agricultural impacts.
At the entrance to Elsbethen-Glasenbach, a monument with broken Roman columns reminds of the past.
literature
- Torsten Riese, Raimund Kastler: The Villa von Glas - a pioneer excavation from the beginning of the 19th century as reflected in modern geophysical prospection. In: Program and abstract volume for the second Austrian Archaeometry Congress on May 13 and 14, 2010, University of Salzburg, IFFB Forensic Medicine, Ignaz Harrer-Straße 79, 5020 Salzburg Abstract volume Archaeometry Congress 2010 (PDF; 454 kB)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 25.1 ″ N , 13 ° 5 ′ 3 ″ E