Experience culture

Lectures in the accompanying program

The Limes exhibition will also be accompanied by interesting lectures.

Audience seated behind a bar table in the background — Lectures

Lectures in the accompanying program

Every Tuesday, 6 pm, admission free

May 6, 2025
Dr. Jennifer Schamper
Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate, Directorate of State Archaeology Koblenz
"Towers, routes and theaters. Old, new and unexpected at the Upper Germanic Limes in Rhineland-Palatinate"

Doll with Roman armor in the exhibition — View of the special exhibition

"RATIONEM REDDERE: Service and documentation in the Roman army of the early and high imperial period"

May 27, 2025
Dr. Konrad Stauner, Open University of Hagen

The performance of the Roman army in war and peace was based on the efficient use of limited human and material resources. The basis for this was a military administration that kept detailed records of the number and distribution of troops and soldiers as well as their deployment and requirements for provisions, material and pay. Using illustrative documents from the Roman army administration, these areas of regulation are presented and the basic principles of military administration are demonstrated.

Drawing of a Roman village — Ideal reconstruction of a civilian settlement on the Limes (vicus)

"Here's to good neighborliness! Life in a fort vicus on the Upper German-Raetian Limes"

June 17, 2025
Simon Sulk, RömerMuseum Weißenburg

A civilian settlement always developed at the same time as the forts on the Limes, where soldiers, craftsmen and traders lived and various services were offered. The inhabitants often came from many different parts of the empire, just like the troops. In the beginning, Limes research was strongly influenced by the military, so the focus was almost exclusively on the forts. The fort villages were only studied in part. This has changed fundamentally in recent decades. Even though the northern border of the Roman Empire was characterized by the military stationed there, it should not be forgotten that a large part of the population consisted of civilians. How did these people live on the edge of the empire? How did they earn their living and how dependent were they on the army stationed there? The lecture shows how one can imagine life on the Limes and which questions are still unanswered today.

July 1, 2025
Dr. Boris Burandt, Museum Burg Linn
"The soldiers of Rome - a tour through the history of imperial military equipment"