Villa rustica (Peiting)

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The Villa rustica in Peiting is a Roman estate ( Villa rustica ) from the Roman Empire . It dates from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD. The area then belonged to the Roman province of Raetia . Due to its size, it is one of the largest of its kind in the former Raetia. The 2.5 hectare area includes, among other things, the exposed main building with a rather unusual architecture compared to other Roman buildings north of the Alps.

History and description

The Romans conquered the Lech area from the Celtic Likatiers around 15 BC under the general Drusus . The remains of the ancient complex were discovered in 1956 on the Neukirchwiesen in the Peiting district of Kreut. The site is located south of the built-up area in the direction of Füssen , but still a little north of today's B 17 and B 472 bypass roads. The access is directly via Kreuther Weg, the western branch of federal road 17 on the outskirts before the bypass road. A junction of the ancient road connecting Via Raetia and Via Claudia Augusta is believed to be nearby .

Excavations took place in 1956, 1962 and from 1984 to 1989. The main building, which had already been excavated, had an atrium , i.e. an inner courtyard, which was unusual in this area. Instead of the usual corner projections , the main building has two apses . The bathing complex of the building complex had a hypocaust , Roman underfloor heating that was exposed between 2000 and 2004. The hypocaust can be viewed at any time of the year and has been in a glazed protective structure since 2012. There were also Samian ware found remains of wall paintings and fragments of former glass windows.

Today there is also a kitchen and medicinal herb training garden with information boards. Since around 1992 there has been a support association for the Villa rustica in Peiting, which was awarded a silver medal of honor from the Upper Bavaria district for special voluntary services in the preservation of monuments.

literature

  • The Roman villa of Peiting. Report on the excavation of 1956. In: Bayerische Prognistorblätter No. 22/1957, pp. 223–224
  • The Roman Villa von Peiting in technical articles , Förderverein Villa Rustica e. V., status: 2004
  • The Roman Villa von Peiting in the press review , Förderverein Villa Rustica e. V., status: 2004
  • The villa rustica von Peiting in the Weilheim-Schongau district ... In: Bayerische Archäologie No. 4/2010, pp. 48–49
  • Jürgen Obmann, Jens Peuser, Werner Schmitt u. a .: Villa Rustica Peiting: the Neukirchwiesen and their Roman secret , publisher: Förderverein Villa Rustica Peiting e. V., 2012, 26 pp.
  • W. Nass, C. Völk (ed.): The Villa Rustica von Peiting. In: In the footsteps of the Romans from Ammersee to Verona , publisher: Gymnasium Weilheim 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-929-3 , pp. 74-77

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The size of the villa rustica is becoming more and more breathtaking. In: Der Altlandkreis: The magazine for the western Pfaffenwinkel , issue no. 37, September / October 2016, pp. 4–5
  2. ↑ History and Memories of the City of Schongau. First print from 1852, reprint from 1969, p. 2; Special supplement of the Weilheimer Tagblatt for the 1000th anniversary of the first mention of the towns of Polling and Weilheim, April 16, 2010, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Cf. Leonhard Jahn: 150 years of the Post in Erling / Andechs: Verkehrswege, Boten, Post , Selbstverlag, Herrsching 2012, pp. 20–21.
  4. ↑ Museums in Bavaria ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 22, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museen-in-bayern.de
  5. ↑ a b Kreisbote from September 12, 2012: Peiting opens protective building for hypocaust , accessed on September 23, 2016
  6. ↑ Gartenwinkel - Pfaffenwinkel ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 23, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gartenwinkel-pfaffenwinkel.de
  7. ↑ The edge of the Alps in Roman hands , accessed on September 22, 2016.

Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 2 "  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 4"  E