Divitia / Deutz-castle?

[Virilis]

Howdy rangers!

I was thinking about bigger roman forts and I remembered that Divitia / Deutz- fort was claimed somewhere to have these massive 20 m high walls. This is the only info I found:

http://www.livius.org/cn-cs/cologne/deutz.html

Is there more info about this huge castle and perhaps reconstruction pics etc. ? Thanks in advance !

[mcbishop]

I was thinking about bigger roman forts and I remembered that Divitia / Deutz- fort was claimed somewhere to have these massive 20 m high walls. This is the only info I found:

http://www.livius.org/cn-cs/cologne/deutz.html

Is there more info about this huge castle and perhaps reconstruction pics etc. ? Thanks in advance !

There is a short paper in English in Roman Frontier Studies 1995* and a longer one in German in Kölner Jahrbuch# basically going over the earlier excavations (by Maureen Carroll, who is now at Sheffield University). Here's a computer reconstruction (although it looks like it's a paper model). Twenty-metre-high walls? I think every generation gets the reconstruction artists they deserve ;-) )

Mike Bishop

# Carroll-Spillecke, M. 1993: ‘Das römische Militärlager Divitia in Köln-Deutz’, Kölner Jahrbuch 26, 321–444
* Carroll-Spillecke, M. 1997: ‘The late Roman frontier fort Divitia in Cologne-Deutz and its garrisons’, in Groenman-van Wateringe, W., van Beek, B.L., Willems, W.J.H., and Wynia, S.L. (eds.), Roman Frontier Studies 1995. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, Oxbow Monograph 91, Oxford, 143–9

[Virilis]

Thanks Mike ! This model looks impressive enough without the suspicious "20m walls". Anyway a massive fort and definitely enough to keep the barbarians and the garrison itself impressed...

[D B Campbell]

I was thinking about bigger roman forts ...

If you're looking for a big fort, you can see Brian Delf's excellent reconstruction of El-Lejjun in the Osprey Roman Legionary Fortresses book (it's on the back cover as well, if you're scrolling through Google Books).

[Virilis]

I was thinking about bigger roman forts ...

If you're looking for a big fort, you can see Brian Delf's excellent reconstruction of El-Lejjun in the Osprey Roman Legionary Fortresses book (it's on the back cover as well, if you're scrolling through Google Books).

Thanks Duncan, I will check it out !

[Sascha]

If you are interested in later fortification in the surrounding of cologne, you should visiting Haus Bürgel in Monheim some kilometres north of cologne:

http://www.hausbuergel.de/museum/ausste ... glisch.pdf
http://www.hausbuergel.de/museum/index.html
The only burghus which changed the Rhine site in his history...the basics from the nowadays building are roman.

[Virilis]

If you are interested in later fortification in the surrounding of cologne, you should visiting Haus Bürgel in Monheim some kilometres north of cologne:

http://www.hausbuergel.de/museum/ausste ... glisch.pdf
http://www.hausbuergel.de/museum/index.html
The only burghus which changed the Rhine site in his history...the basics from the nowadays building are roman.

Thanks Sascha !