Lahnau

Lahnau is a municipality consisting of three districts, Waldgirmes, Dorlar and Atzbach in the Lahn Dill district in Hesse. It lies approximately in the middle between the cities Wetzlar and casting. The center of Lahnau is in Dorlar. At the Eberacker near Dorlar archaeological excavations of the Roman Germanic Commission in 1991 and 1992, the Roman camp Lahnau-Dorlar, a legion strong Roman camp at the time of the Drusus campaigns around 10 BC. Be detected.

Archaeological excavations carried out since 1995 on the western outskirts of today's Waldgirm have provided proof of a civilian Roman town in Germania magna. The use of the plant could be dated by coin finds with imprints of the Varus: it was probably a few years before the birth of Christ and was abandoned after the defeat of the Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in the second half of the year 9 AD. Ceramic finds here prove the peaceful coexistence of Romans and Teutons.