Favianis – Das "römische Mautern": Ausstellung im Rathaus Mautern von 2023 bis 2025 (original) (raw)

2023

Exhibition in the Municipal Office of the Municipality of Mautern an der Donau: Exhibition in the Municipal Office of the Municipality of Mautern an der Donau: Due to renovation work and an associated redesign of the "Römermuseum," the exhibition at the old location was dissolved in 2022 and is expected to be reopened in 2025. In the meantime, a temporary exhibition will present the most important finds and findings from Favianis in its place from the end of 2022 to 2025 in the municipal office of the municipality of Mautern an der Donau. The present-day town of Mautern was built on the remains of the Roman fort "Favianis," the associated camp village, and its burial grounds. Since 2021, the military camp has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Danube Limes." From the second half of the 1st century AD until the end of the 5th century AD, soldiers and their families, merchants, artisans, workers, enslaved people, and many others settled in and around Favianis. Even today, the massive late antique fortifications of the Roman camp in the town can still be visited. "Roman Mautern" was located in the ancient Roman province of Noricum (or, in late antiquity, Noricum ripense) and thus on the northern border of the Roman Empire, today's Danube Limes. This flourishing border area is less understood as some "Cold War's Iron Curtain" but instead as a militarily and economically critical zone of interaction between the Roman Empire and the inhabitants of the lands to the north of it (the so-called Barbaricum). Along the Limes, Favianis was part of an extensive chain of different military stations (legionary camps for about 5000 soldiers, forts for about 500 to 1000 men, and watchtowers manned by a handful of soldiers) that were connected by roads. Late antiquity and early Christianity are of particular importance in Mautern. One of the most important written sources of this period, the "Vita Sancti Severini" by Eugippius, describes the life and work of St. Severin, an early Christian missionary. He founded a monastery in Mautern and tried to alleviate the people's sufferings throughout northern Noricum during this crisis-ridden period characterized by poverty, war, hunger, and hardship.