The Roman camp Anreppen is located in the district Anreppen the city of Delbrück, Paderborn.
It was discovered in 1968 by Anton Doms of the Westphalian Museum of Archeology - Office of Bodensekmalpflege, Branch Office Bielefeld. In 1967, a yellow shard had been found by a farmer creating a Runkel rental.
With the excavations, the Doms carried out from 1968 to 1982, the course of the defense and thus the size of the camp could be determined. The camp is in the shape of an irregular, 23-acre longitudinal oval and is located directly on today's southern shore of the Lippe. It is built as a so-called wood-earth camp, as well as the other lying on the lip Roman camp Holsterhausen, Haltern, Olfen, Beckinghausen and Oberaden. The fortification consisted of a wood-earth wall with two upstream trenches. The interior of the camp was initially unexplored by Anton Doms.
In the years 1988 to 2004 the Westphalian Museum of Archeology - Office for Bodensekmalpflege under the direction of Johann-Sebastian Kühlborn dug large areas inside the camp. Proven now are the 47.5 × 71 m large Kommandeurshaus (praetorium), more, some representative residential buildings, a thermal building with multi-renewed furnace, a 56 × 68 m large storage (horreum) at the south gate and within a separate demarcated area more, however smaller store near the east gate. Crew quarters were detected at the southern via sagularis (Wallstrasse) and at the via praetoria, at the south gate and at the east gate. Because of the unusually large supply of storage Anreppen will have served as a supply base for the troops operating further east, among other things.
About 500 meters east of the camp two parts of a dirt Roman road were detected. For a zweiperiodige use of the place speaks an older Roman Spitzgraben in the eastern part of the camp.
The founding date of the Roman camp Anreppen can be determined relatively well. The Roman historian Velleius Paterculus (2, 105) reports on a campaign by Tiberius in the year 4 AD in the course of the immensum War of building a winter camp at the sources of the lip. In addition a lumber dating from the year 5 AD fits from a team latrine. It is less precise to set the end date of the use of stimulus. The find material belongs to the first decade AD, possibly the end of Anreppen with the consequences of the clades Variana (the defeat of Varus in the Varus battle 9 AD) to connect. Despite this obviously very short usage time, there were various modifications and repair measures in the warehouse.
Only 3.5 km south of the Roman camp in 1975, the residence of Thüle was discovered.
Walk in the footsteps of the ancient Romans. There are many boards along the way and provide information about the area and the excavations in the area.