Lautertal Limes

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The Lautertal Limes (in German also: Sibyllenspur or Sybillenspur) is a Roman limes section of the early 2nd century which is located between the River Neckar and the Swabian Jura. It extends for a distance of 23 kilometres (14 mi), running, straight as a die, from the present-day municipality of Köngen on the Neckar (Lat: Grinario) in the northwest to Donnstetten (Lat: Clarenna) in the Swabian Jura to the southeast.[citation needed]

Research history

The 600-metre long

sherds. The Kirchheim local historian, Eugen Schweitzer, brought to the table the thesis that the Sibyllenspur was a limes and thus part of the great European network of Roman centuriation.[2]

In the dry summer of July 1976,

Neckar Limes from the Roman fort of Köngen to the Alb Limes at Donnstetten Roman Fort.[3] Subsequent studies showed that the "Lautertal Limes" consisted of a palisade and three parallel ditches. Unlike the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes
, which was protected by two ditches, the ditches here run on the outside of the palisade.

Aerial photographs by Alfred Brugger uncovered another Roman fort behind the limes at

archaeological find
was a Roman military camp intended for the direct protection of the Lautertal Limes.

Limes

Scale drawing representing an artist's impression of the limes defences in the Lautertal

An excavation by the Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg in 1982 uncovered the following: the Sibyllenspur comprises three parallel ditches, the outer one in the northeast being a 3.20-metre-wide and 1.60-metre-deep V-shaped ditch. To the southwest, at a distance of 6 metres, is a 2.60-metre-wide and 1.4-metre-deep V-shaped ditch (2) and, behind it, 1.5 metres away, is a 70-cm-wide and 1.10-metre-deep U-shaped ditch (3), into which the wooden posts of a

Roman fortlet
, seen on the aerial photograph taken by Dieter Planck, behind the ditches.

During these excavations, two fragments of

Chémery-lès-Faulquemont (historically German: Schemmerich) near Faulquemont (German: Falkenberg) in Gallia Belgica. These artefacts classify the Sibyllenspur with its V-shaped ditches and the wood and earth rampart as the long-sought connection between the Domitian Neckar Limes and the Alb Limes.[4]

Footnotes and references

  1. ^ Filtzinger, Aalen pp.32ff.
  2. ^ Planck 2005; Schweitzer 1983
  3. ^ Schweitzer based his thinking on research by Siegfried Müller in 1976
  4. ^ Handbuch der Baden-Württembergischen Geschichte. 1. Allgemeine Geschichte. Teil 1 Von der Urzeit bis zum Ende der Staufer, Klett-Cotta, 2001, p. 20.

Literature

Monographies

  • Rolf Götz: Die Sibylle von der Teck, Die Sage und ihre Wurzeln im Sibyllenmythos. (Series of papers in the town archives of Kirchheim unter Teck, Vol. 25). Gottlieb und Osswald, Kirchheim unter Teck, 1999.
    ISBN 3-925589-23-6

Articles

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