Villa Rustica (Bochingen)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Photo-request.svg
 Image wanted 
BW

The Villa Rustica (Bochingen) was an archaeological site in the Oberndorf district of Bochingen in the Baden-Württemberg district of Rottweil in Germany .

It was located south of Balinger Straße between the roundabout and the slip road to the A 81 .

excavation

On the occasion of the designation of a new industrial area, emergency excavations took place from 1993 to 2005 , during which a villa rustica was uncovered. It covered an enclosed area of ​​around 3.2 hectares . The ancient farm is dated from 100 to 250 AD. The complex included a residential building, a bathroom and two stone outbuildings. Storage and stable are assumed to be a function of the outbuildings.

Special findings

Of particular interest here are not the actual manor house, but the ancillary buildings: Building 3 east of the main building and the small building 4 in the south-east corner of the walled area. In these functional buildings - probably as a result of an earthquake - the tiled roof first fell down, and then the walls in the wall bond were folded outwards. They were then preserved in this state by being washed away from a nearby slope. Obviously the manor had already been abandoned at this point.

This results in the very rare opportunity for the Roman north-west provinces of being able to examine rising masonry up to the roof.

  • Building 3 had a floor area of ​​18 m × 15 m. The side walls were 7.2 m high, the gable 12 m. The roof thus had a slope of 33 °.
  • Building 4 had a floor area of ​​10 m × 15 m. Here a transverse and a longitudinal wall are folded outwards. The lying longitudinal wall was very beautiful with a large entrance gate flanked by two arched windows. The height of the gate was 5.5 m with a width of 3 m. The 0.80 m wide windows were 2 m high.

The unusual finding also showed architectural details, such as sandstone tiles around the arches or profiled support stones for the roof beams.

Tourist processing

The site is overbuilt by the commercial area, so that the location of Villa Rustica can no longer be traced on site. The museum in the Swedish building shows individual finds . Since the Roman road Neckar-Alb-Aare passes near the site , the work of art “Fallende Mauer” by Johannes Pfeiffer was installed at the Bochingen roundabout in December 2005 , showing the longitudinal wall of building 4, which was falling.

Web links

literature

  • Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (ed.): The district of Rottweil . tape 2 . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2004, DNB  969448643 , p. 31 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Villa Rustica (Oberndorf-Bochingen). Retrieved April 11, 2018 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 50.2 "  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 50"  E