page_title: Niedernhausen
section_title: Beginnings and Roman border area (1st century AD)
hierarchical_section_title: Niedernhausen / History / Beginnings and Roman border area (1st century AD)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Anlässlich des Hessentages 2002 in Idstein nachgebauter römischer Wachturm am Limes auf der Dasbacher Höhe zwischen Niedernhausen und Idstein im Taunus.
context_page_description: Niedernhausen im Taunus is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, with almost 15,000 inhabitants.
context_section_description: In 1974, a stone hatchet was found near Oberjosbach that was dated to the time of the “Beaker Cultures” of the New Stone Age (2300-1600 BC). There is no hint as to whether the area was settled, although it does prove a human presence.
  About the beginning of the Christian Era, the Romans came into what is now the Niedernhausen municipal area. Beginning in AD 86 they began work on the Limes between the places now known as Oberseelbach and Idstein; on 15 July 2005, UNESCO proclaimed it a World Heritage Site. The Niedernhausen area lay on the Roman side of the frontier, and what would later become Idstein on the Germanic side. On the Dasbach Heights, on the highway between Niedernhausen and Idstein, a replica of a Roman watchtower was built right near Niedernhausen municipal limits on the occasion of the 2002 Hessentag, state festival in Idstein. Some 2 km north of Oberseelbach, near Idstein-Heftrich, was the Roman castrum of Alteburg.
caption: Reconstructed Roman watchtower on the Dasbach Heights between Idstein and Oberseelbach
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