Stockstadt am Main
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#Municipalities_in_Bavaria
#Aschaffenburg_(district)
Constituent communities Stockstadt am Main （officially: Stockstadt a.Main） is a market community in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia （Unterfranken） in Bavaria, Germany.
The settlement was established by the Romans who built a fort here in the 1st century AD. Stockstadt has a population of around 8,000 （2020）.
Stockstadt am Main lies on Aschaffenburg’s western town limit on the Main’s left bank.
To Stockstadt’s west and northwest runs the boundary with Hesse, and southwest of Stockstadt lies the Bachgau.
To the south is the community of Großostheim, and to the southwest, beyond the state boundary, in Hesse, lies Babenhausen; northwest lie Mainhausen and Seligenstadt.
The nearest neighbouring communities are Kleinostheim to the north and Mainaschaff to the east.
Stockstadt am Main The Romans built a castrum at Stockstadt, as part of the Limes Germanicus.
In the 1st century AD a small earthen fortification was erected.
Around the year 100 it was replaced by a full cohort fort further to the southeast.
This castrum had a size of 3.
2 ha.
Over time, it was occupied by the cohorts III Aquitanorum, II Hispanorum and I Aquitanorum.
Stockstadt was also the site of a "de:Benefiziarer station" （i.e. a road house）.
After the withdrawal of the Romans from the area, the regional population declined.
Burgundians and Alemanni moved through the lower Main region, but it was only under the Franks （after 500 AD） that the population density again rose noticeably.
Their settlements often did not simply grow out of the formerly Roman cores but included separate newly established sites.
At Stockstadt, a Frankish graveyard was discovered to the northwest of the Roman structures.
The Frankish settlement was likely located nearby, on the right bank of the Gersprenz, north of the former Roman structures.
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