- 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
Saalburg Roman Fort, Bad Homburg
Saalburg Roman Fort, Bad Homburg
Saalburg Roman Fort, Bad Homburg
- 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 Limes near Saalburg Fort, Bad Homburg
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