Saalburgstrasse

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The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Saalburgstrasse (disambiguation) .

Steinstraße , hollow path on the course of Saalburgstraße on the Riedberg

The Saalburgstraße was built by the Romans to provide supplies and to make the Saalburg fort on the Taunus crossing at the Köpperner Sattel easier to reach . It is a straight line connection from the main town of Nida of the Civitas Taunensium .

conservation

As with almost all Roman roads in the region, the remains of Saalburgstraße are only visible today with a practiced eye or through aerial archeology . As a military road on the Limes , it was originally a stone layer with gravel. In agricultural areas this is often plowed, which shows the endangerment of the soil monument . In addition to aerial photos, the course can be reconstructed using today's roads and dirt roads.

Probable course

Information board on Römerstraße in front of the castle gate of the Saalburg.

Over a length of almost 14 kilometers, this Roman road , disregarding the topography, ran straight from the forum in Nida to the main gate of the Roman fort and thus replaced the also completely straight, so-called Lindenweg (also linear path), the pre-Roman connection from the Nidda estuary near Frankfurt-Höchst . The layout of the second fort (stone fort), built around 135 AD, no longer refers to the Lindenweg, but emphasizes the military axis to Nida, the administrative center of the Civitas Taunensium. In the Middle Ages this street was also called Heidenstraße .

• The starting point in the forum of the highway in Heddernheim , the cemetery or kink the highway 50 ° 9 '14.5 "  N , 8 ° 38' 15.4"  O .
• Urselbach crossing at the Wiesenau underground station. 50 ° 9 '59.1 "  N , 8 ° 37' 50.4"  E
• Steinstraße on the Niederurseler slope. 50 ° 10 ′ 15 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 39 ″  E
• New development area Riedberg , here the route was kept free from development. 50 ° 10 ′ 34.2 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 27.4 ″  E (see also Riedberg plan :)
• Road remains in the field near Bommersheim , as traces of terrain in the aerial photo. 50 ° 11 '9.6 "  N , 8 ° 37' 6.2"  E
• Remnants of the road south of the Oberurseler Kreuz at the railway bridge 50 ° 12 ′ 33.1 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 15.5 ″  E
• Roman road after the Oberurseler Kreuz , there also called "The old Roman road". 50 ° 12 '49.3 "  N , 8 ° 36' 5.3"  E
• A section in the small fir forest in front of the Tannenwaldallee / Elisabethenschneise in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . 50 ° 13 '34.6 "  N , 8 ° 35' 37.9"  E
• Römerstraße in front of the Saalburg-Kastell, there called "Römerstraße to Heddernheim", the axis of the Via Praetoria . 50 ° 15 ′ 52 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 17.7"  E and 50 ° 16 ′ 8.3 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 5.2"  E, respectively

Identical names in Frankfurt am Main

In the eastern Frankfurt district of Bornheim , a street also bears the official name Saalburgstraße . However, their name has no geographical or historical connection with the Roman road dealt with here.

literature

• Heinrich Jacobi : The Saalburg Castle . In: Ernst Fabricius , Felix Hettner , Oscar von Sarwey (eds.): ORL B 2, 1, fort No. 11. Petters, Berlin and Leipzig 1937, pp. 6-9 ( The old streets ).
• Dietwulf Baatz , Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann (ed.): The Romans in Hessen. Licensed edition of the 1989 edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-933203-58-9 , p. 472.
• 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. Ravenstein, Frankfurt am Main 1913.
• Margarete Dohrn-Imig, Andrea Hampel: Frankfurter Fundchronik of the years 1980–1986. Habelt, Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-7749-2364-7 , Fig. 105 ( writings of the Frankfurt Museum for Pre- and Early History 11).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Fundchronik Ffm. 1980-86 (see literature)
3. ↑ Complete overview of the Riedberg development area [1] - "Grünstreifen" of Kreuzerhohl / Max-Laue-Str. to Weißkirchner Berg / BAB A5 bridge
4. ↑ Georg Wolff: Archaeological find map (see literature)
5. ↑ D. Baatz in Baatz / Herrmann 2002, Fig. 444.
6. ↑ Falk-map Frankfurt, Offenbach aM Falk Verlag Ostfildern, 64th 2011
7. ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.): The green belt leisure map . 7th edition, 2011