Hiking Highlight
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In the area of Lindwald and Lindfeld in the area of motorway feeders and
Railway line was a stately settlement in the times of the ancient Romans,
evidenced by various excavations and numerous finds of walls,
Graves and objects since the early 19th century, and of course that
Roman theater. What is missing besides the temple is the name: «Vicus
Lentia »is at most a working title (vicus: Latin settlement, district). The
only attribution found on a pottery shard shows
to a potter named VATTO.
Small buildings and representative houses stood side by side in the street village, in which sales shops and handicrafts were operated: iron processing, millstone production and pottery. This first in
Connection with the supply of the legion camp in Vindonissa.
There was probably also a military post in the vicus.
Its foundation goes back to the second quarter of the 1st century AD
estimated. Initially, only wooden houses existed, which end of the
Century burned down. The reconstruction took place on new parcels in
Stone or truss. In the heyday, the settlement should be 400 to 600
Inhabitants, the Vicus was in the second half of the 3rd
Century. Roman Lenzburg was probably an important social and religious center for a larger region.
August 1, 2020
Very nice relics from the old days. Unfortunately, the information board is badly weathered and illegible in Roman times.
September 5, 2020
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