Lauriacum (Germania Inferior)
Lauriacum was an important Roman legion, legionary civitas, Roman town on the Danube Limes in Austria. History Roman era Initially only a small Roman settlement was located at a ford over the Enns. The Legio II Italica built a legion camp around 200 Anno Domini, AD, after the abandonment of an older site in Albin next to Virunum (In the area of today's Zollfeld at Maria Saal) and Ovilava (Wels) as administrative center for the Roman province of Noricum. The legionary camp was subsequently also part of the fortifications of the Limes (Roman Empire), limes and probably from the 3rd to the 5th century continuously occupied with Roman troops. In the north and south-west was an extensive civilian settlement, which was probably raised to the municipality in the early third century and rose to the bishop's seat of the northern Noricum in the 5th century. Grave fields could also be found at numerous places inside and outside the settlement area. In the late period, it became the base ...
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