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Introduction The settlement The baths Commerce |
The writing tablets Religion The fortress Burials |
At the west end of the Bodensee, also called Untersee, a settlement was found in Eschenz and a fortress in Stein am Rhein. Stein am Rhein, partly on the south and partly on the north shore, is in the canton Schaffhausen. Eschenz, directly to the east on the south shore, belongs to the canton Thurgau.
The Untersee seen from the south. To the left is Stein am Rhein, to the right is Eschenz.
Photo: Höneisen 1993, Abb. 1.In the Roman period the place was called Tasgetium. The geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus, who wrote in middle of the second century, speaks of Taxgaition (Ταξγαιτιον), which he incorrectly locates in the area where the river Rhine originates (Geography 2,12,3). The beginning of the Latin name is preserved in two or perhaps three inscriptions (EDCS-10800659, 10800662, 75200020). The Celtic male name Tasgetius is documented, for example in Caesar's Gallic War (V,25), and we may assume that Tasgetium was originally the property of a Tasgetius. Over the centuries the name evolved into Eschenz.
Reconstruction of the settlement in Eschenz by Roland Gäfgen.
Introduction
The settlement
The baths
CommerceThe writing tablets
Religion
The fortress
Burials
Literature
Keller 1860, 274-280; Müller 1875; Müller 1876; Christinger 1877; Rippmann 1900; Meinecke 1903; Urner-Astholz 1939; Urner-Astholz 1942; Drack 1950, 78-79; Von Gonzenbach 1961, 105-106; Urner-Astholz 1961; Urner-Astholz 1974; Guyan 1975; Bürgi 1975; Bürgi 1978; Schaffhauser Beiträge zur Geschichte 61 (1984), 315-319; Bürgi 1987; Bänteli-Ruckstuhl 1987; Brem-Bolliger-Primas 1987; Drack-Fellmann 1988, 515-519; Drack-Fellmann 1991, 113-114, 254-255; Frei-Stolba 1993; Höneisen 1993; Jauch 1994; Jauch 1997; Hedinger-Jauch 1997; Brem-Steiner-Kesselring 1999; Brem-Hedinger-Leuzinger 2003; Brem-Leuzinger 2005; Belz et al. 2008; Brem et al. 2010, 283-290; Brem et al. 2011; Brem et al. 2012; Hartmann 2012; Brem et al. 2014; Hartmann 2014; Streit 2014; Lehar 2019.
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