Obernburg

Obernburg is a town inside the Miltenberg district inside the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany. It has a populace of around 8,500. Between 83 and 85, the Romans constructed the Obernburg castrum, named Nemaninga, to protect the Limes Germanicus which followed the Main river right here. It was at the beginning built from wooden however within the middle of the 2^nd century AD changed by means of a stone fortress. The castrum become the garrison of the Cohors IIII Aquitanorum equitata.

The stone citadel, with a place of 2.9 ha and an almost square ground plan changed into orientated to the river Main. Obernburg's antique metropolis nevertheless really corresponds to the castrum’s footprint, with some of the thoroughfares corresponding to Roman streets, together with state-of-the-art Romerstrasse which follows the course of the fort's through principalis. A beneficiarii station has been proven to have existed at the Limes road south of the castrum, from which severa determination stones were secured. In the Alamannic invasion of 259 and 260, the castrum fell, but turned into resettled in a while. In the 4^th and 5^th centuries the Franks settled the area.