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Saalburg FortThe Saalburg fort location is something special on the Upper German-Raetian Limes. The Saalburg is the only fort that has been reconstructed. Here the Saalburg Museum is located, a research institute and, besides the Limes Museum in Aalen, the only Museum specifically dedicated to the Limes. As well as this, at no other fort location are so many visible remains to be encountered. The location is among the best researched on the Limes. Probably around 90 AD, a fort with an area of 0.7 ha was built for an unknown Numerus. Around 135 AD, a 3.2 ha (221 m x 147 m) fort was built, the garrison of the Cohors II Raetorum civium Romanorum. Large-scale excavations were carried out between 1853 and 1862. Then in 1870, excavations began which lasted several decades. In 1897, Kaiser Wilhelm II, who often stayed in Bad Homburg, decided on the reconstruction of the fort, which was completed during the years leading up to the First World War. In July 2005, the Saalburg Fort became the 31st german world heritage site. « back |