The German Limes Road
REMARKABLE RELICS OF EARTHWORKS AND OTHER MONUMENTS, RECONSTRUCTIONS AND MUSEUMS VEREIN DEUTSCHE LIMES-STRASSE E.V.
www.limesstrasse.de The German Limes Road runs along the Upper Germanic- Rhaetian Limes from Rheinbrohl/Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube as a tourist route. Bad Hönningen Lich 1 /// RHEINBROHL T 15 /// ARNSBURG K There are numerous historically interesting stations of /// NEUWIED K / T / M 2 /// HUNGEN M Roman history in Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Baden- 3 4 /// HILLSCHEID K / T / M /// BENDORF T /// BUTZBACH M / T 14 Wuerttemberg and Bavaria en route. They include rebuilt 5 /// ARZBACH-AUGST T 16 /// ECHZELL M Koblenz /// BAD EMS T / M towers and forts, or parts thereof, preserved fort and fort 13 17 /// FLORSTADT K 6 Nassau 3 /// OBER-MÖRLEN K / T Wehrheim Altenstadt baths foundation walls, as well as sections of the border RHEINBROHL Becheln HANAU MILTENBERG RAINAU-DALKINGEN PFÜNZ Limes watchtower WP 1/1 Schmitten 12 /// KAPERSBURG K / B /// LIMESHAIN T Fort baths Municipal museum Limes gate Fort festival fortifications themselves, which can still be identified and, Dessighofen Geisig /// POHL K / T 11 /// SAALBURG K / M / B Hammersbach-Marköbel Hunzel /// FELDBERG- last but not least, these finds can be seen in smaller and /// HOLZHAUSEN K 10 Bad Homburg v.d.H. Neuberg Marienfels 7 KASTELL T Glashütten Erlensee larger museums. These stations are stringed to each other Nastätten 9 /// IDSTEIN K / T 18 /// RÜCKINGEN B like a row of pearls on a necklace, each one a Roman Heidenrod 8 /// TAUNUSSTEIN K / T 19 /// HANAU M / B Bad Schwalbach highlight in itself. Frankfurt a. M. 20 /// GROSSKROTZENBURG K / M Wiesbaden 3 The German Limes Road leads through familiar and varied Seligenstadt Mainz landscapes and offers visitors, besides the Roman places of /// STOCKSTADT M / B 22 interest, a further abundance of attractive places left and Niedernberg right of the route. Attractive towns, well known health resorts and relics of other historical eras worth seeing, are RHEIN /// OBERNBURG M / T 23 CAPUT LIMITIS 5 GROSSKROTZENBURG OSTERBURKEN AALEN ERKERTSHOFEN on the wayside, just waiting to be explored. Römerwelt MAIN Fort corner tower Roman museum Limes museum (building crane) Limes watchtower Wörth Klingenberg a.M.
The outer Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes is one of the 24 /// MILTENBERG K / M / B / T most outstanding archaeological monuments in Central 25 /// REINHARDSACHSEN K Europe and was declared a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site in July 2005. Many of the today still visible Limes sites Hamburg 26 /// WALLDÜRN K / M / B are, after the latest excavations by the Landesdenkmal- /// HETTINGEN K 27 Berlin ämter (State Offices for the Protection of Historical Monu- /// BUCHEN M ments) are in a good state of preservation. The Limes runs from Rheinbrohl to Regensburg, a distance of over 550 kilo- Bonn Dresden /// OSTERBURKEN K / M / B 28 Nürnberg metres. The tourist route is more than 700 km in length. Koblenz BAD HOMBURG POHL Frankfurt WELZHEIM WEISSENBURG IN BAVARIA Parallel to this are also a Limes cycle path and hiking path. /// JAGSTHAUSEN M / B 29 Saalburg Limes park Nuremberg Fort Roman fort Biriciana 81
Stuttgart Regensburg Zweiflingen We would like to invite you on a journey in the footsteps 9 /// ÖHRINGEN M 30 of the Romans along the history laden Limes, the World Munich Pfedelbach 6 REGENSBURG Heritage of UNESCO. Heilbronn 3 Arberg /// THEILENHOFEN K / B Porta Praetoria /// MAINHARDT K / M 31 7 /// GUNZENHAUSEN M / T 44 45 46 /// PLEINFELD T /// GROSSERLACH-GRAB T 32 Langfurth We wish you an eventful journey with imposing impres- Limes Ehingen Pfofeld 47 /// ELLINGEN K /// WITTELSHOFEN K Unterschwaningen sions and important insights into the Roman history of this 48 /// BURGSALACH K / T /// REGENSBURG K / M Deutsche Limes-Straße Wilburgstetten 43 /// WEISSENBURG K / M / B 49 Titting /// MURRHARDT M / T /// KIPFENBERG M / T 57 country, combined with relaxation in the beautiful and 33 /// WEILTINGEN M Wassertrüdingen /// BÖHMING K /// MÖNCHSROTH T 42 54 K Fort Stödtlen 53 Altmannstein varying landscapes of the Roman Border Region. Ellwangen /// ERKERTSHOFEN T 50 41 /// HALHEIM K 51 Walting B Fort baths 52 56 /// EINING K / B 40 /// RAINAU K / M / B / T /// EICHSTÄTT M /// PFÜNZ K /// WELZHEIM K / M 34 Hüttlingen M Museum /// HIENHEIM T 55 /// BAD GÖGGING M / B BUTZBACH GROSSERLACH-GRAB Alfdorf-Pfahlbronn 39 /// AALEN K / M Neustadt Verein Deutsche Limes-Straße e.V. Telefon 07361 52828723 Roman festival Limes watchtower T Tower/Sentry post 36 38 Mögglingen Pförring /// LORCH K / T 35 St.-Johann-Strasse 5 Fax 07361 52828710 37 /// BÖBINGEN K D 73430 Aalen [email protected] /// SCHWÄBISCH GMÜND K / M / B DONAU www.limesstrasse.de /// Cover picture: Roman cavalry detachment Ala II Flavia, Dr. Marcus Junkelmann