In 1934 the main house of a villa was excavated near Osterfingen, next to Gasthaus-Weingut Bad Osterfingen. The building measured 48 x 27 m. Part of the west facade can still be seen.
The villa during the excavation, seen from the east. Photo: Schib 1937, Taf. I.
Plan of the villa. Schib 1937, 314.
The building stood on a terrace. It had two tower-like projections (B, F), one with three buttresses at the edge of the terrace. In room C and porticus D fragments of wall paintings were found. Objects emerged especially in room L: ceramics, fragments of glass vessels, and tools of iron and bone.
A terra sigillata bowl found in room L. Photo: Schib 1937, Taf. V.In room B a raised floor and heating tubes were found. A drainage channel suggests that it formed part of baths.
The corner of rooms N-D-B. Photo: Schib 1937, Taf. III.The building was destroyed by a fire. The latest coin was from the reign of Maximinus Thrax (235-238 AD).
Literature
Schib 1937; Drack 1950, 107; Drack-Fellmann 1988, 466-467; Drack-Fellmann 1991, 201.
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