Neckar-Odenwald Limes

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Map with route of the Odenwald Limes (red line, left) with locations of towers, camps, settlements or well known remains of a villa rustica as well as descriptions of military divisions; right: the line of the so-called Anterior Limes, which replaced the Neckar-Odenwald Limes around 160/165 AD.

The Neckar-Odenwald Limes (

River Main (Latin: Moenus) with the Neckar (Latin: Nicer), and the adjoining southern Neckar Limes (Neckarlimes), which in earlier research was seen as a typical 'riverine limes' (German: Nasser Limes; Latin: limes ripa), whereby the river replaced the function of the palisade as an approach obstacle. More recent research has thrown a different light on this way of viewing things that means may have to be relativized in future.[1]
The resulting research is ongoing.

Route

The Odenwald Limes begins in the north on the River Main, either near

Arae Flaviae in the terrain of the present town of Rottweil
, where it oriented itself to the course of the river.

Period

The Neckar-Odenwald Limes probably emerged in the area of the Odenwald Limes during the Trajanic period[2] and, in the area of the Neckar line, in the principate of Domitian or early Trajanic period, and, in the area of the old Neckar camps, under Vespasian. It went through several rebuilding phases and did not become obsolete until the construction of the almost perfectly straight Anterior Limes (Vorderer Limes) in the years between 159/161 and 165.[3]

See also

References

  1. ISSN 0176-8522
    , pp. 38f.
  2. , pp. 49–52 and pp. 54 f.)
  3. ^ The more recent research posits that the construction of the forward limes did not happen overnight, but took place over a period of up to five or six years.

Literature

Overviews/General

Limes sections, individual camps, specialist literature

  • Géza Alföldy: Caius Popilius Carus Pedo und die Vorverlegung des obergermanischen Limes. In: Fundberichte aus Baden-Württemberg 8. 1983, pp. 55–67,

doi:10.11588/fbbw.1983.0.26572.

Historical excavations

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