Battle of Solicinium
| date | 368 |
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| place | Southern Germany, south of the Limes, cf. items |
| output | Victory of the Romans |
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Mediolanum - Augusta Vindelicorum - Lacus Benacus - Placentia - Fano - Pavia - Langres - Vindonissa - Autun - Reims - Brumath - Senonae - Argentoratum - Solicinium - Argentovaria
The Battle of Solicinium was fought between the Alamanni and the Roman Empire under Emperor Valentinian I in 368 , after the Alamanni had conquered Mogontiacum the year before . Valentinian I could only win the battle with great losses.
Little is known about the battle. The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus reports of a concerted offensive by various tribes. With this battle ended this last offensive which brought the enemies of Rome over the Germanic Limes . When put to battle, the Alemanni withdrew on a mountain.
The exact location of the battle is the subject of historical research. Archaeological evidence has not yet been found. Possible locations are:
- Sulz am Neckar
- Sülchen near Rottenburg
- the Schweinsberg near Heilbronn
- Heidelberg
- Schwetzingen
- the Hessian Glauberg
- the Tübingen Spitzberg
- or, according to the latest findings, Beuren near Hechingen : Archaeological evidence suggests a battlefield in the area of the Beurener Heide and the hayfield above it near Burladingen - Ringingen and Salmendingen . There a massive gold signet ring with the image of Constantine the Great was found in a field . The find seems to be an heirloom and could possibly come from the imperial environment of Valentian I. A golden eagle with outspread wings was also discovered on the hayfield, possibly part of a legionary eagle . The find has been melted down by the finder.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Ammianus Marcellinus: Res Gestae a Fine Corneli Taciti, Libri XXXI (Historiae)
- ↑ Jan Den Boeft, Daniël the stallion: Ammianus Marcellinus. Brill, 2009. page 238 (English).
- ^ Paul Neff: Literature sheet. 1840, page 342.
- ↑ Domdekan von Jaumann: Colonia Sumlocenne: Rottenburg am Neckar under the Romans: with regard to the Zebentland and Germania in general: an antiquarian topographical attempt. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1840.
- ↑ Julius Cramer: The history of the Alemanni as a Gau story . Marcus, Breslau 1899 ( Studies on the German State and Legal History, Old Series 57), (Reprint: Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1971, ISBN 3-511-04057-4 ), p. 158.
- ^ HC Freiherr von Gagern: The National History of the Germans, Part Two, The Great Changes. From the disturbance of the Gothen Empire on the Danube to the Frankish Empire. Frankfurt am Main, Fr. Wilmans, 1826. Quoted in: Heidelberger Jahrbücher der Literatur, Volume 19, Part 1. Mohr and Winter, 1826, page 419.
- ↑ Alexander Demandt: The late antiquity: Roman history from Diocletian to Justinian, 284-565 AD. CH Beck, 2007. Page 140.
- ↑ Hechingen: Where is the legendary Solicinium? Black Forest Messenger, August 13, 2010.
- ^ Lehmann, Hans-Dieter: Solicinium, ZAK [Zollernalbkreis]? To early Alemanni and late Romans in the Zollernalb district. In: Hohenzollerische Heimat. 58. 2008, 2. - pp. 38-39.
- ↑ The Battle of Solicinium. In: Jürgen Meyer. Riddles of history. Verlag Oertel and Spörer, Reutlingen, 2003. (With further sources).