page_title: Irgenhausen Castrum
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Irgenhausen Castrum / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Castrum in Irgenhausen (Switzerland) as seen from towards Pfäffikersee (Lake Pfäffikon)
context_page_description: Irgenhausen Castrum is a Roman fort at Irgenhausen, situated on Pfäffikersee lake shore in Switzerland. It was a square fort, measuring 60 metres in square, with four corner towers and three additional towers. The remains of a stone wall in the interior were probably a spa.
context_section_description: The castrum is situated on the Bürglen hill in Irgenhausen, a village of the municipality of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Bürglen (Swiss German: "small castle") is a 25 metres (82 ft) high drumlin, 400 metres (1,312 ft) from the eastern shore of Lake Pfäffikon, situated between Pfäffikon and Kempten, the site of another Roman settlement nearby.
caption: as seen from the south
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