Terra Germania - 2005

Ольга Ткачева

9Б класс Гимназии №248 СПб

Saalburg is a place where  the Romans lived

When our Russian group was in Germany we had a lot of lessons with different teachers.

One of the most  interesting lessons was on Friday.

The lesson was about the Romans and Saalburg. The teacher was Miss Hahn.

The lesson was very interesting. I would like to share the information with you. In Roman times, the Saalburg  fort kept watch over a section of the Limes in the Taunus hills. From the end of the 1st century AD, for approximately the next 160 years, the Limes marked the frontier between Rome`s Empire and the Germanic tribal territories.

The fort’s garrison was made up of 500 to 600 soldiers, both infantry and cavalry. A bath house and a guest house were located just outside the main gate. A village housing craftsmen., traders and tavern keepers adjoined the front.

 The fort  and village fell into disrepair when, due to increasingly strong Germanic incursions, the Limes was abandoned around AD 260 today.

 After initial archaeological investigation in the mid-19th century, thanks to an initiative led by Kaiser Wilhelm II, the fort was reconstructed between 1897 and 1907 to serve as an open-air museum and a research institute. In 2003, the reconstruction of an additional building marked the start of a plan to create an Archaeological Park.

The historical knowledge that I got in Wiesbaden helps me in my studies.

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