Villa Rustica (Oberweningen)
The Villa Rustica von Oberweningen is a Roman estate near Oberweningen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland , the remains of which were found during excavations.
The remains of the villa are on a slope northwest above today's village. Roman finds were made there again and again. In 1850 and 1857 a water pipe and hypocausts came to light. In 1913/14 the first systematic excavations uncovered the manor house and a bathhouse. The mansion stood on a terrace and was about 43 meters long and 35 meters wide. Different construction phases can be distinguished. There was a small bathroom inside the mansion. In one room there was a mosaic floor that can be dated to the second half of the second century. It shows a diamond pattern . Two dogs are shown in the middle and there are inscriptions: CIXA VICIT (Cicha won) and ATTILUS FECIT (Attillus did it). Attillus was obviously the artist who laid out the mosaic. In another room there were still extensive remains of wall paintings. A bathhouse stood a little east of the manor house.
literature
- Max Hufschmid: The Roman manor of Oberweningen , volume issue 23. Zürcher Unterländer Museumsverein, 1983/85.
- Beat Horisberger: New excavations in the Roman estate of Oberweningen ZH , volume issue 32. Zürcher Unterländer Museumsverein, 2002/03.
- Walter Drack , Rudolf Fellmann : The Romans in Switzerland . Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-8062-0420-9 , pp. 460-461 .
Web links
- Stefan Ramseier: Saturday, May 28th, 2005 - Oberweningen, Zurich. In: SPQR - Roman Information. August 28, 2005, accessed April 9, 2015 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '17.5 " N , 8 ° 24' 17.9" E ; CH1903: six hundred and seventy-two thousand eight hundred and three / 262,014