Der römische Limes in Österreich

Among the fort sites on the Austrian section of the Danube Limes, Schwechat, ancient Ala Nova, was until now one of the places from which little archaeological information was available. This changes with the publication of this volume, which presents sound research results from excavations in the Roman fort and in an associated cemetery: for the first time, insights into the interior construction of the military fort and the further use of the area (1st half of the 3rd to the late 4th/early...

Despite the very good preservation of some remains of Roman military camps in Noricum, the state of knowledge about the individual fortifications is still very limited. Only the history of the fort of Mautern is well known from excavations. The analysis and evaluation of archaeological investigations (2002–2012) in Arelape/Pöchlarn now makes it possible to trace the development of this fort from its foundation in the second half of the 1st century AD to its abandonment in the late 5th or early...

Die Carnuntiner canabae legionis nehmen unter den römischen Lagervorstädten eine Sonderstellung ein. Dank der in den letzten Jahren intensivierten luftbildarchäologischen Auswertung auf dem Gebiet der heutigen Gemeinden von Petronell und Bad Deutsch-Altenburg (Niederösterreich) liegt mittlerweile ein Gesamtplan vor, der hinsichtlich seines Detailreichtums als singulär unter den römischen Lagervorstädten einzustufen ist. Die Diskussion der Siedlungsentwicklung musste sich aber bisher auf...

Aufgrund jahrzehntelanger, systematischer luftbildarchäologischer Arbeiten konnte ein vorläufiger Gesamtplan der im Boden verborgenen antiken Reste des römischen Carnuntum hergestellt werden. Dieser zeigt archäologische Strukturen, die sich über mehrere Quadratkilometer erstrecken und von der dichten Bebauung des Stadtareals der canabae bis zu Strukturen der Wasserversorgung reichen. In Zusammenschau mit publizierten Altgrabungen konnte eine Neubewertung des bisherigen Forschungsstandes...

Volume 2 of the "Untersuchungen zu den Gräberfeldern in Carnuntum" presents the results of the anthropological research of grave fields dating from the 2nd to 4th century A.D. in the area of Petronell (Lower Austria). The Graves analyzed in this work came to light during a series of rescue excavations undertaken between 1984 and 1986 because of the construction of a by-pass road south of modern Petronell-Carnuntum. In terms of the quantity individuals discussed, the authors present one of...

The hill country of Hainburg, also called Hainburger Pforte, and the plateau to the west to Petronell-Carnuntum and Wildungsmauer are among the most productive research landscapes along the Danube due to their scenic and historical profile. This also applies to the Pfaffenberg, the hill of the Hainburg Hills, which today serves as a quarry and was formerly a temple hill overlooking the Roman city of Carnuntum. Carnuntum, this political, military, economic and cultural hub of Rome at the...

In terms of landscape and geography, Hainburg’s mountains formed the scenic background of the Roman camp Carnuntum. In front, the flattened ridge of the Pfaffenberg Mountain with a length of around 500m (cadastral municipality Hainburg an der Donau) offered the ideal conditions for a Mountain of the Gods in terms of ancient urbanism. This second volume available now of the complete Pfaffenberg works presents the round sculptures. These were discovered during the excavations in the years 1970 –...

The Pfaffenberg in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg performed the function of the town hill for the Roman provincial capital of Carnuntum in antiquity. On this rise,with its characteristic rural appearance,today destroyed by a quarry,the architects and master-builders of the Pannonian army set up a central provincial sanctuary for Jupiter Optimus Maximus and the imperial cult. The ruins and finds of the Temple District on the Pfaffenberg were saved for posterity by emergency excavations by the University...

In den Jahren 1968 bis 1977 führte die ehemalige Limeskommission der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kooperation mit dem Österreichischen Archäologischen Institut Ausgrabungen im Legionslager Carnuntum (Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Niederösterreich) durch. Dem Legionslager Carnuntum kommt unter den römischen Militäranlagen am Donaulimes ein besonderer Stellenwert zu, umspannt die Baugeschichte des Carnuntiner Lagers doch einen Zeitraum, der vom Beginn des oberpannonischen Limes in...