Vocario
Vocario ( neo-Latin , classically probably Vocarium ) was the name of a Roman settlement in the province of Noricum .
Based on the records in the Tabula Peutingeriana (12th century, according to a probably Carolingian tradition of a late Roman original map ) it is a post station ( Mansio ) on the important Alpine transversal Aquilea - Virunum - Iuvavum , the route Iuvavum ( Salzburg ) - Cuculle ( Kuchl ) - Vocario - Ani ( Altenmarkt / Pongau ) - In Alpe ( Tauernpass ) - Immurium ( Unternberg / Lungau) - Virunum ( municipality of Magdalensberg / Carinthia). The station is believed to be in the area of the municipality of Pfarrwerfen . Hüttau is also suspected (pill wine). It is likely to have been a more important bridge location to which the roads into the inner Pongau and Pinzgau were connected, so the village of Pfarrwerfen is assumed.
Hubert Vogel pursues a different thesis in his work On the Four Thousand Year Karlstein . Because the Roman settlement in Fager (today's Karlstein near Bad Reichenhall ) had a similar size to z. B. the settlement in Seebruck ( Bedaium ). The wealth of the settlement through the brine springs of Bad Reichenhall also explains the extensive settlement that existed as early as the Bronze Age, while Reichenhall had no known homes at that time. Fager was also an important junction of the Celtic trade routes and later the Roman roads on the foothills of the Alps. Roman inscriptions from another settlement in Kirchberg , three kilometers away , support this assumption. Vogel also shows that the Peutinger table alone is not sufficient as a basis for the localization of Roman places, because this work has several errors. If Kuchl and Vocario had been swapped during creation or copying (as well as other locations on the map), this would clearly speak for Fager as a Roman Vocario. Vogel also states that, in contrast to Karlstein, there is no correspondingly large Roman settlement in Pfarrwerfen. The origin of the name Vocario = Fager is also considered very likely by the author.
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Freutsmiedl: Roman streets of the Tabula Peutingeriana in Noricum and Raetia . Publishing house Dr. Faustus, 2005, ISBN 978-393347436-0 , 98. From Ani to Vocario , p. 159 resp. following 99. From Vocario to Cuculle .
- ↑ Hubert Vogel: Vom four thousand year old Karlstein , Munich 1973, p. 16f