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New work on the fort at Breisach on the Upper Rhine - MARCUS ZAGERMANN, mit einem Beitrag von Lothar Bakker, DER MÜNSTERBERG IN BREISACH III. DIE RÖMERZEITLICHEN BEFUNDE UND FUNDE DER AUSGRABUNGEN KAPUZINERGASSE (1980-1983), RATHAUSERWEITERUNG/TIEFGARAGENNEUBAU (1984-1986) UND DER BAUBEGLEITENDEN UNTERSUCHUNGEN AM MÜNSTERPLATZ (2005-2007) (Münchner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte Band 60; Veröffentlichung der Kommission zur vergleichenden Archäologie römischer Alpen- und Donauländer der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; Verlag C. H. Beck, München 2010). S. 497, Abb. 104, Taf. 129, Beilagen 3. ISSN 1435-; ISBN 978-3-406-10761-0. EUR. 88.-
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1 Bender, H. und Pohl, G., Der Münsterberg in Breisach I: Römische Zeit und Frühmittelalter. Karolingisch - vorstaufische Zeit (Münchner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte 39; 2005)Google Scholar.
2 This era has been covered in a dissertation at Tübingen by Wendling, H.: Der Münsterberg von Breisach in der Spätlatènezeit. Siedlungsarchäologische Untersuchungen am Oberrhein (Materialhefte zur Archäologie in Baden-Württemberg 94; 2012)Google Scholar.
3 This parallel was already noted in a preliminary report not cited by Zagermann: Klein, M., Fundberichte Baden-Württemberg 14 (1989) 388 f.Google Scholar
4 Only 10% at most of the hypothetical total surface area of the settlement has been excavated, and some of the features and finds had been severely disturbed or partly destroyed by later building.
5 “As the filled-in foundation trench of a robbed defensive wall”.
6 “An infrastructure to ensure the provision and transport of the building materials”.
7 “At the same time, it may be confirmed that there was no Roman defensive wall at this site”.
8 “And what happened to the part of the old defensive wall that encircled the southern part of the Münsterberg? … Very probably, this part of the earlier wall still existed intact. Then only a junction with the northern fortress wall needed to be built. That spared the effort of building 500 m of new walls”.
9 Bender and Pohl (supra n.1) 61 ff.
10 This finding has been known since the 1985 excavation, having been published in preliminary reports: see M. Klein, Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 1986, 181 f. with fig. 135, and M. Schmaedecke, “Der Breisacher Münsterberg. Topographie und Entwicklung,” Forschungen und Berichte der Archäologie des Mittelalters in Baden-Württemberg 11 (1992) 24 f. with fig. 5 (not cited by the author).
11 Only someone familiar with Breisach will know where to find the claim Zagermann criticizes: Bücker, Ch., Der Breisacher Münsterberg. Ein Zentralort im frühen Mittelalter (Freiburger Beiträge zur Archäologie und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends 11; 2007) 36, 145 f. with n.627, 157 fig. 108, and Beilage 1Google Scholar.
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13 Bender und Pohl (supra n.1) 97 ff. and 316.
14 Ibid. 100.
15 G. Wesch-Klein in op. cit. (supra n.3) 387-426, with a contribution by M. Klein.
16 It is described in the catalogue on 364 f. Relating it (with the help of a magnifying glass) to the overall plan (Beilage 3) is possible only with the help of fig. 79 and fig. 3.
17 Schmaedecke (supra n.10) 82 ff.