The German 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 to on the as a tourist route. Bad Hönningen Lich 1 /// RHEINBROHL T 15 /// ARNSBURG K There are numerous historically interesting stations of /// K / T / M 2 /// HUNGEN M Roman history in Rhineland-Palatinate, , Baden- 3 4 /// K / T / M /// BENDORF T /// BUTZBACH M / T 14 Wuerttemberg and en route. They include rebuilt 5 /// -AUGST T 16 /// ECHZELL M Koblenz /// T / M towers and forts, or parts thereof, preserved fort and fort 13 17 /// FLORSTADT K 6 Nassau 3 /// OBER-MÖRLEN K / T Altenstadt baths foundation walls, as well as sections of the RHEINBROHL HANAU MILTENBERG RAINAU-DALKINGEN PFÜNZ Limes WP 1/1 Schmitten 12 /// KAPERSBURG K / B /// LIMESHAIN T Fort baths Municipal museum Limes gate Fort festival themselves, which can still be identified and, /// POHL K / T 11 /// K / M / B Hammersbach-Marköbel /// FELDBERG- last but not least, these finds can be seen in smaller and /// HOLZHAUSEN K 10 Bad Homburg v.d.H. Neuberg 7 KASTELL T Glashütten Erlensee larger museums. These stations are stringed to each other Nastätten 9 /// K / T 18 /// RÜCKINGEN B like a row of pearls on a necklace, each one a Roman 8 /// TAUNUSSTEIN K / T 19 /// HANAU M / B highlight in itself. a. M. 20 /// GROSSKROTZENBURG K / M 3 The German Limes Road leads through familiar and varied Seligenstadt 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 ERKERTSHOFEN on the wayside, just waiting to be explored. Römerwelt MAIN Fort 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 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- 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 /// M 30 of the Romans along the history laden Limes, the World Munich Pfedelbach 6 REGENSBURG Heritage of UNESCO. 3 Arberg /// THEILENHOFEN K / B Porta Praetoria /// MAINHARDT K / M 31 7 /// GUNZENHAUSEN M / T 44 45 46 /// PLEINFELD T /// GROSSERLACH-GRAB T 32 We wish you an eventful journey with imposing impres- Limes Ehingen 47 /// ELLINGEN K /// K sions and important insights into the Roman history of this 48 /// BURGSALACH K / T /// REGENSBURG K / M Deutsche Limes-Straße 43 /// WEISSENBURG K / M / B 49 /// MURRHARDT M / T /// M / T 57 country, combined with relaxation in the beautiful and 33 /// 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 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 /// 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