The location alone is special: Away from the village in the Altmühl valley, the gleaming white medieval church is located on a roughly rectangular embankment. Beneath it is a former Roman fort that has been extensively explored and about which you can find out a lot on Wikipedia. It is interesting that you can still see the line of sight to a (reconstructed) Roman watchtower on the Limes on the heights beyond the Altmühl: from there, the small garrison was alerted when it was necessary to move out.

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Stefan V.

October 20, 2019

The Böhming fort was a Roman fort that was built near the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes and is located west of the village of Böhming in the Eichstätt district of Bavaria. The fortification, which was most likely built for a 150 to 200-man border guard command (numerus), was destroyed at the latest with the fall of the Limes in 259/260 AD.

Source / more information:

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kastell_Böhming

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uta_is_hiking

December 2, 2024

The church of St. John the Baptist of Böhming stands on parts of the principa of the former fort.

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