Anreppen Roman Fort

In 4 CE, general Tiberius was sent to the north; he led the army of Germania Inferior to the sources of the Lippe,note where a camp was built at Anreppen.

The site measured 750 x 330 meters (23 hectares) and was therefore a bit larger than the contemporary legionary base at Haltern (19 hectares). Excavations are still going on, but it is already known from dendrochronological evidence that Anreppen was occupied in the first decade of the first century, and was evacuated when the Roman governor, Publius Quinctilius Varus, was defeated in the Teutoburg Forest (in 9).

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