Irgenhausen Castrum

Irgenhausen Castrum is a Roman fort located on Pfäffikersee lake shore in Switzerland. It changed into a rectangular fortress, measuring 60 metres in rectangular, with four corner towers and three additional towers. The remains of a stone wall inside the interior were probable a spa. In the Roman technology, alongside Pfaffikersee there has been a Roman street from Centum Prata on Obersee–Lake Zurich thru Vitudurum to Tasgetium on the Rhine.

To cozy this vital transport route, the castrum was constructed. The native name of the citadel is unknown: Irgenhausen become noted in AD 811 as Camputuna sive Irincheshusa, so perhaps the castrum's name became Cambodunum, the Roman name of the neighboring village of Kempten. In 1865 Jakob Messikommer succeeded the dating of unearths at Irgenhausen, because of his revel in in the courting of peat and concurrent findings at the Irgenhausen Castrum.

In 1897 stones of the ruined building had been used for the construction of a factory nearby; the dilapidation was stopped by means of the Antiquarische Gesellschaft in Zurich in an effort to start archaeological investigations, carried out among 1898 and 1908, and to keep the walls. The castrum changed into set underneath federal safety as Kastell Irgenhausen in 1909.