Villa Rustica

One of the largest Roman estates in the western Palatinate was excavated here between 1967 and 1973. The NE-facing show side was a good 65 m wide and was given an impressive effect by a columned porch (porticus) when you approached the manor house from the valley. The farm area was more than 200 hectares. The finds date the manor to the 2nd to 4th centuries AD.Large wing buildings (risalite) attached to both sides of the rather small residential wing, which probably functioned as storerooms. A total of 10 rooms were grouped around the representative central room, five of which belonged to a bathing complex. The warm bath with seating area, cold pool and sweat room with floor heating were fed by pipes from a source above the main building. Such a thermal bath was part of every larger Roman estate.The excavations also uncovered an imposing cellar (room Vlll}, which received light through two windows and had four beautiful round-arched niches. Several sewers below the foundations testify to a well-functioning water supply.Walls bordered on both sides of the risalit buildings, which presumably enclosed the entire courtyard. Two rectangular outbuildings are shown north of the main house in the aerial photo. Katzenbach's villa rustica perished in a catastrophic fire in the 4th century.
Source: vici.org/vici/Villa_Rustica_(Katzenbach)/?lang=de

Unfortunately only a few foundation walls can be seen.

Cute shelter on the remains of the Roman estate