Villa Rustica (Bellikon)
The Villa Rustica von Bellikon is the remains of a Roman estate in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland .
Roman remains were discovered in 1934 about 1,300 meters south of the Bellikon church and excavated in 1941 by Walter Drack with the help of interned Polish soldiers. The villa stood on the slope of the Heitersberg and about 190 meters above the Reuss valley . Only the manor house could be recorded during the excavations. It was about 26 meters long and 16.5 meters wide. The building consisted of a hall with a portico facing the valley. In later construction phases the hall was divided into living rooms. In the north there was an extension into which an apse and a bath were built. In the villa there were remains of white wall paintings with floral motifs. The paintings probably date to the second century. Different rooms had hypocausts . The villa was in operation from the middle of the first century until before 250 and was destroyed by fire.
literature
- Walter Drack : The Roman villa of Bellikon-Aargau. In: Journal for Swiss Archeology and Art History 5, 1943, p. 86ff.
- Martin Hartmann, Hans Weber: The Romans in Aargau . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1985, ISBN 3-7941-2539-8 , p. 164 .
- Walter Drack, Rudolf Fellmann : The Romans in Switzerland. Theiss, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-8062-0420-9 , pp. 360-361.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Drack: The Roman wall painting of Switzerland. Monographs on the prehistory and early history of Switzerland, vol. 8. Basel 1950, 59, fig. 29 (on p. 60)
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '47.9 " N , 8 ° 20' 49.4" E ; CH1903: 668,601 / 248080