Roman Fort Irgenhausen Switzerland🇨🇭/HD/4K/Maluphotography16/Aerial-Shots/Cinematic/Drone/DJI/

The small fort Irgenhausen is a Roman fortification in the area of ​​Irgenhausen, an outpost of the municipality of Pfäffikon in the Swiss canton of Zurich.
The fort is a large square. The complex with side lengths of approx. 60 m, four corner towers (8 x 8 m) and three central towers on the north, west and south front (6 x 6 m). The main access was, probably through a gate tower, in the middle of the east front. The fort once secured a connecting road that led from Kempraten near Rapperswil-Jona to Vitudurum (Oberwinterthur). It was part of the rear line of the late antique Donau-Iller-Rhein-Limes. Its fortifications were built during the final phase of Roman rule over the provinces along the Rhine, Iller and Danube. Built in the 4th century, the fort was probably abandoned again at the beginning of the 5th century. Later, the north wall was used to collect material for the construction of a factory, until the site could be acquired by the Antiquarian Society in Zurich, which put a stop to the stone robbery. At the end of the 19th century, she carried out extensive excavations and restored or supplemented some of the existing walls. Among other things, the hypocaust of a manor (villa rustica) from the 1st to 3rd centuries was discovered under the southern corner tower. Today the complex is one of the best-preserved forts in eastern Switzerland.
Research assumes that the fort served to protect the traffic and supply routes to the Roman Rhine border. Other tasks of the crews were probably the monitoring of road traffic, possibly the interim storage of supplies, the transmission of messages and the blockade of the road in barbarian raids. A roadblock could also be managed with a small troop, since the lake still covered the entire Irgenhausener-Ried at that time.
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