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LVR-Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege im Rheinland

Report on the Nomination Process and Protection Strategies

on the Lower Rhine Limes in Germany

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kunow, Bonn


Part A:

State, Inventarisation and Outstanding Universal Value (OUV)


River frontier of 380 km

Responsibilty: 2 states and 4 various archaeological departments

North Rhine Westfalia:

225 km

AD 100-2002 (-3) legionary fortresses1 base of classis Germanica6+ known auxiliary forts2+ known fortletts2+ known turretsand:a lot of unknown military sites

Course of the Lower German Limes and responsibility of the various archaeological departments


limes and / or ripa? „ … limite imperii et ripa …“ (Tac. Agricola 41,2)

Jahr Textauszug Quelle

14 apud ripam Rheni exercitus erant: cui nomen superiori sub C. Silio legato, inferiorem A. Caecina curabat

Tac. Ann. 1, 31

19 arcus Germanici…apud ripam Rheni Tac. Ann. 2, 83, 2

19 (4. Jh.) ad ripam Rheni eum tumulum, quem Druso… CIL VI 911

claud.-neron.

[praefec]to ad ripa[m et alae / Trevero]rum (?) AE 1968, 0321 (Mainz)

69/70 Germani in suam ripam trahebant Tac. Hist. 4,27

69/70 utor valida manu circumdatos Agrippinensis quantumque militum apud superiorem Rheni ripam in eadem verba adigit

Tac. Hist. 4,59

69/70 Tutor ripae Rheni a Vitellio praefectus Tac. Hist. 4,55

313 perrexisti ad inferiorem Germaniae limitem Pan. Lat. XII (9), 21, 5

388 in Germaniam prorupere, ac pluribus mortalium limite inrupto caesis(… fielen in (Nieder-)Germanien ein, töteten viele Menschen, nachdem sie den Limes durchbrochen hatten)

Gregor von Tours, Hist. 2,9(Sulpicius Alexander)

392 Eugenius tyrannus, suscepto expeticionale procincto, Rheni limitem petit(Der Tyrann Eugenius unternahm eine Expedition, ging an den Rheinlimes)

Gregor von Tours, Hist. 2,9(Sulpicius Alexander)

Auswahl von Schriftquellen zur Rheingrenze


Legionary fortress of Vetera I (near Xanten)


Xanten, Vetera I


Burginatium (near Kalkar)


Burginatium (Geophysik Universität zu Köln)


Building site: Kurt-Hackenberg-Platz

Römische Stadtmauer mit Hafentor mit Abwassersammler


Building site: Kurt-Hackenberg-Platz

Schalbretter („?“) der römischen Stadtmauer


Grundriss Legionslager Bonn im heutigen Stadtbild


via via praetoriapraetoria

via via decumana

decumana

via via principalis

principalis

Legionslager Bonn im heutigen Stadtbild:Darstellung der antiken Lagerstraßen


Legionslager Bonn: Bodeneingriffskartierung


Over-built (destroyed) area: 4,73 ha (= 17,1 %)

Legionary fort in Bonn: State of the sub-surface cultural heritage


Attributes of the OUV on the Lower German Limes

• longest time-span of the limes (ca. 15 B.C. to A.D. 455)

• longest zone of conflict and contact to northern barbaricum

• focus of Imperial frontier policy

• carreer steps for important offices of state

• personal presence of the highest members of the Imperial houses

• unbroken occupation

• all development phases of Roman military architecture

• building programmes of the Roman emperors from Augustus to Valentinian III

• Survival: foundation of modern urban development on the Rhine


Niedergermanischer Limes: Karrierestart für höchste Staatsämter


Part B:

Protection Strategies and the Problem of Core- and Bufferzones


Lorch: Kernzone für Kastell und Pufferzone für Vicus


Welzheim-West (keine Kernzone) – Welzheim-Ost (Kernzone)innerhalb einer gemeinsamen Pufferzone


Öhringen-Bürg: keine Kern- und Pufferzone - Öhringen-Rendel: keine Kernzone/nur Pufferzone


Kern-Zone im überbauten Bereich (Mumrills)

Kernzone sowohl für:

überbautes Areal freies Areal


Puffer-Zone für zerstörte Bereiche

5.c.14, Statement of Methodology - principlesUrban buffer zones Where sections of the route of the Antonine Wall have been lost, and the route is conjectured, an urban buffer zone has been identified to protect the likely route of the Wall.


Main functions of buffer-zones on the Lower German Limes:

1. Visibility: Preservation of lines of vision and appearance

2. Protection: Preservation of the physical heritage

3. Remembrance: Closing gaps in lost remains

Characteristics of buffer-zones


Part C:

Investigation into the Courses of the Roman Rhine – The Problem of the shifting Riverbeds


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