About 8 km from the Roman military encampment Lopodunum (which later became Ladenburg, a town halfway between Mannheim and Heidelberg in the Upper Rhine Valley) one of the Romans decided to built a villa rustica.
This is the view due south, Lopodunum would be a tad more to the west.
Turn about by 180°, now facing north this would have been the main building of the villa. The foundations of the building were only discovered in the 1980s through aerial photographs. They were excavated and walls built up to an extent.
Looking to the west was the house temple.
The view from the temple to the east, this would have been inside the villa 2000 years ago, but today the hills of the Odenwald can be seen behind the two pine trees.
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What an excellent, informative post, thank you. Love that shot of the wheat field
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All that excavation for nought 😉 I like that villa – it wasn’t there when I was a kid, or rather it was hidden, and they found it when I lived away and I was very suprised to find it when I returned to the area in 2013. Glas you like the information.
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