Bad Homburg

  • Bad Homburg is a town below the Taunus Mountains which is now a suburb of Frankfurt in the State of Hesse in Germany.
  • Nearby is Saalburg, which has a reconstruction of a Roman Cohort Fort, an excavated Vicus and archeological museum and is a Unesco World Heritage Site.

Roman Sites

  • Saalburg Roman Fort and Museum
    • Located 4 miles (7km) northwest of Bad Homburg.
    • This is a reconstruction of a Roman Cohort Fort and excavated Vicus (civilian settlement) which includes an Archeological museum with tours of the site.
    • Saalburg Museum
  • Limes Germanicus
    • The Ditch and Bank of the Limes Germanicus can be followed nearby and the watchtowers are either partly preserved or visible as mounds.

Roman Roads

  • Limes Germanicus
    • Starting from the mouth of the Rhine, this fortification ran up the Rhine towards Mainz, then overland to Regensburg on the Danube. Here it joined the Danube Limes.
    • A Roman military road ran along the west bank of the Rhine and connected all the Rhine Forts.

 

Saalburg Roman Fort

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