Der römische Limes in Österreich

Only a few kilometres south of the former Roman provincial capital of Carnuntum, a Roman cemetery with 208 cremations and 49 inhumations was archaeologically excavated in Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge. It was in continuous use from the end of the 1st century AD until the beginning of the 5th century AD, and thus provides an insight into burial customs and grave goods in a rural cemetery over more than 300 years. The graves can be grouped into different zones, which are spatially separated, but...

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...

The Roman town and legionary fortress of Lauriacum, modern Lorch near Enns in Upper Austria, was an important centre in the Roman province of Noricum. According to written sources, in Late Antiquity Lauriacum was one of the first Christianized areas on the Roman Danube frontier. Lothar Eckhart undertook excavations between 1960 and 1966 in the basilica of St. Laurentius in Lorch, and the publication of his results provoked a discussion that has continued until today. In particular,...

Between 1968 and 1977, archaeological excavations were undertaken at the Roman legionary fortress of Carnuntum (Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Lower Austria) by the former Limes Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Archaeological Institute. Carnuntum was built around AD 40–50 and was finally abandoned in the fifth century AD, so the history of the site is quite representative for the development of the Roman limes in this part of the Pannonian frontier. The first section of...

This volume presents an interdisciplinary study of the large-scale excavations conducted by the Austrian Archaeological Institute from 1997 to 1999 in Mautern (Lower Austria), a vicus of the Roman Favianis. Evaluation of the archaeological evidence has given us the first clear picture of the sequence of building and the material culture of a vicus in Noricum, from the early stages of the establishment of a fort to its function during the late antique period. Within the framework of the entire...

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 –...