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Living Danube Limes Valorising cultural heritage and fostering sustainable tourism by LIVING the common heritage on the DANUBE LIMES as basis for a Cultural Route

Pilot Sites

In Living Danube Limes, eight Roman heritage sites in eight partner countries along the river Danube (Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania) have been identified as project pilot sites following different selection criteria. Depending on the national needs and interests the partners evaluated various scientific, economical, touristic, logistical and practical parameters and based the decision concerning their national pilot site selection on this analysis. Therefore, the Living Danube Limes pilot sites span from Roman military forts, watchtowers and vici to certain sections of Roman roads (also in the hinterland) and necropoles, all of them showing different states of conservation as well as of visibility or even touristic use. 

 

Gunzenhausen - Germany
 
 

Location: Gunzenhausen, Mittelfranken, Bavaria, Germany

Roman name: -

Type: Fortification

Dating: 140 CE

List of known remaining archaeolocical structures:

  • WT 14/4: remains of the stone tower,
  • Limes-wall: stone remains near the tower forming the grounding structure,
  • Small fort: foundation area is visible

Coverage today: full/partly covered with modern superstructures

Museum: Archaeological Museum Gunzenhausen

 

Photo: Boris Dreyer
 

Comagena/Tulln - Austria
 
 

Location: Tulln an der Donau, Lower Austria, Austria

Roman name: Comagena

Type: Roman fort, settlement, cemeteries

Dating: 1st - 5th century CE

List of known remaining archaeological structures:

  • Horseshoe-tower (westfront of fort)
  • Foundation walls of the right gate of the fort (porta principalis dextra)
  • Southeastern fan-tower (near the main sports school)
  • East-, south- and west front of fort are partially preserved

Coverage today: partly covered with modern superstructures

Museum: Roman Museum Tulln

 

Photo: Stadtgmeinde Tulln
 

Iža - Slovakia
 
 

Location: Iža, district Komárno, Slovakia

Roman name: Kelemantia (uncertain)

Type: Fortification, Roman auxiliary fort (castellum)
Dating: 2nd – 4th century AD
List of known remaining archaeological structures:

From the fortification of the first earth-and-timber fort are known only sections of two V-shaped ditches in the north. From its inner area in the south are known partly the remnants of 11 military barracks. They were constructed of the mudbricks. The stone fort had a square-ground plan (175 x 175 m) with rounded corners. Its fortified wall was provided with 4 corner towers and 8 intermediate towers. Gates were located in the middle of wall on all four sides. The outer fortification included 5 V-shaped ditches from various periods of the fort´s existence. From the inner area are known the headquarters, barracks, stables, stores, granaries and bat.

Coverage today: not covered
Museum: Danube Region Museum in Komárno

 

Photo: AÚ.SAV.Nitra
 

matrica/Százhalombatta - Hungary
 
 

Location: Százhalombatta, Pest County, Central Hungary, Hungary

Roman name: Matrica
Type: Fortification, Roman auxiliary fort (castellum) with vicus
Dating: 2nd century CE
List of known remaining archaeological structures: The only, unearthed, still visible archaeological structures are the remains of the Roman Bath, north to the military camp, on the eastern side of the limes. The plan of the bath is clearly visible, its walls remained with app. 0,5 m – 1 m height, covered with a roof.

 

All the other, previously excavated archaeological structures are covered with soil:

  • Roman Bath
  • Auxiliary fortas a part of the auxiliary fort:

           - porta principalis dextra

           - principia
           - shirne (Aedes or Capitolium)
           - road
           - angle tower

 

  • Military vicus
  • Section of the limes road
  • Roman cemetery

Structures after the Roman times:

  • 14-15th century church and cemetery
  • Military rampart from the Napoleonic age
  • Memorials from the 20th century

Coverage today: partly/fully covered with modern superstructures
Museum: Matrica Museum and Archaeological Park, Százhalombatta

 

Photo: Martin Takács, 2021
 
 
 

Ad LAbores/Kopačevo - Croatia
 
 

Location: Bilje, Baranja, Croatia
Roman name: Ad Labores
Type: Fortification, settlement, necropolis
Dating: 3. – 4. century AD
List of known remaining archaeological structures: Walls of a late Roman fort detected by geophysical survey in 2011; parts of the sewers system excavated and backfilled.
Coverage today: partly covered with modern superstructures
Museum: Archaeological Museum Osijek

 

Photo: Nature Park Kopački 2021
 

Lederata/RAM - Serbia
 
 

Location: Veliko Gradište, Braničevo county, Serbia
Roman name: Lederata
Type: Fortification, settlement, cemetery, river crossing
Dating: I-VI Century AD
List of known remaining archaeological structures: Ditches and ramparts, towers, and gates. Cemeteries according to excavated tombs, settlement to the south of the fortress (only basic research, no plan available yet)
Coverage today: not covered
Museum: Regional Museum from Požarevac

 

Photo: Nemanja Mrđić
 

Bononia/Vidin - Bulgaria
 
 

Location: Vidin, Northwestern region, Bulgaria
Roman name: Bononia
Type: Ancient fortress; remains of ancient city
Dating: End of the I - beginning of the II century
List of known remaining archaeological structures: Western gate, walls, tower
Coverage today: fully/partly covered with modern superstructures
Museum: Regional Historical Museum of Vidin

 

Photo: NTC Bulgarian Guide
 

Sacidava - Romania
 
 

Location: Aliman commune, Constanța county, Dobruja region, Romania
Roman name: Sacidava
Type: fortification
Dating: 2nd - 6th centuries
List of known remaining archaeological structures: East and West gates, several defense towers
Coverage today: not covered
Museum: Museum of National History and Archaeology Constanta (MINAC)

 

Photo: Adrian Radulescu, INCDT

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