Kempten

Kempten is the largest metropolis of Allgau, in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. The population became approximately 68,000 in 2016. The place was probably settled initially by using Celts, but turned into later taken over by the Romans, who called the town Cambodunum. Kempten is the oldest city agreement in Germany. The Greek geographer Strabo mentions in 50 BC a metropolis of the Celtic Estiones named Kambodunon. This is taken into consideration the oldest written reference of any German metropolis. So, no archaeological evidence may be observed that this Celtic agreement genuinely existed. In 15 BC Roman troops led via Nero Claudius Drusus and his brother Tiberius conquered and destroyed an current Celtic settlement.

Later the settlement changed into named Cambodunum. In the following years the town turned into rebuilt on a classical Roman metropolis plan with baths, forum and temples. Initially in timber, the town was later rebuilt in stone after a devastating fireplace that destroyed nearly the whole city within the year 69 AD. The city probable served as provincial capital of Raetia for the duration of the primary century earlier than Augsburg took over this position. Extensive archaeological excavations on the cease of the 19^th century and again all through the 1950s at what were then the outskirts of Kempten unearthed the large structural foundations.