Cambodunum (Kempten) - Forum/Basilika
N 47° 43.608 E 010° 19.551
32T E 599422 N 5286787
In 15BC troops lead by Nero Claudius Drusus and his brother Tiberius conquered and destroyed an existing Celtic city. Later the settlement was named Cambodunum which became the German city of Kempten.
Waymark Code: WM1BHC
Location: Bayern, Germany
Date Posted: 03/25/2007
Views: 83
In the consecutive years the city, which was originally the capital of the province of Raetia, was rebuilt modeled on a classical Roman city with Roman Baths, forum and temples. This location indicates the site of the ancient forum. The ruins of a basilica in the forum are indicated by the excavated and reconstructed bits of wall which form the outline. At one end is a reconstructed podium.
The Roman capital of Raetia was later moved to what is now Augsburg.
Initially built in wood, the city again was rebuilt in stone after a devastating fire that destroyed almost the entire city in the year 69. Extensive archeological excavations at the end of the 19th century and again during the 1950s at what were then the outskirts of Kempten unearthed the extensive stuctural foundations. The city is again destroyed in 233 by Alemans, a Suebic tribe, who invaded the Western part of the Roman Empire. The original site of Cambodunum then was abandoned and was moved to a strategically safer location on the Burghalde hill overlooking the river Iller. Only in 488 the last Roman troops leave the area and the city was entirely overtaken by the Alemans.
Most Relevant Historical Period: Roman Empire > 27 B.C.
Admission Fee: Free
Opening days/times:
24 x 7
Web Site: [Web Link]
Condition: Partly intact or reconstructed
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