Oberaden Roman Fort

The Oberaden Roman camp is an approx. 56 hectare Roman military camp. The camp from around 11 BC BC belongs to the context of the Drusus campaigns (12 to 8 BC) in Germania .

The inner surface of the camp was built on according to a rectangular scheme. The buildings consisted of a half-timbered construction with clay plastering. The houses of the centurions and the team barracks were located near the wood-earth wall.

A complex building structure was discovered in the area between the praetorium (commanders' house) north of the camp center and the south gate. The praetorium had a size of about 41 × 59 meters. To the south, separated by the 42-meter-wide Via principalis (main street of the camp), the staff building, the approximately 94 × 103-meter-large Principia, followed . There were five villa-like houses with attached peristyle courtyards between the staff building and the south gate.

Due to the special nature of the soil in the vicinity of the camp (clay), wooden objects could also be found again and again. The rainwater in the larger streets of the camp was collected and drained off in canals lined with wood.

Over 40 wells with wooden casing were also found. For the latter - an early form of recyclable materials - wooden transport barrels were used. The wooden finds also include several pila muralia , i.e. bulwarks, some of which are inscribed with centurions. The excavators also found a wooden practice sword.

The finds, which were rather sparse compared to the Roman camp in Haltern , also included tent pegs , pila , dagger blades, sling balls , arrowheads, several phalerae and coins.

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