page_title: Saalburg
section_title: History of research
hierarchical_section_title: Saalburg / History of research
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Haupteingang (Teilansicht) des Römerkastells Saalburg bei Bad Homburg Latina: Statua Antonini Pii ad portam praetoriam castelli Saalaburgensis. Inscriptio est: GUILELMUS II FRIDERICI III FILIUS GUILELMI MAGNI NEPOS ANNO REGNI XV IN MEMORIAM ET HONOREM PARENTUM CASTELLUM LIMITIS ROMANI SAALABURGENSE RESTITUIT. Et: IMPERATORI ROMANORUM TITO AELIO HADRIANO ANTONINO AUGUSTO PIO GUILELMUS II IMPERATOR GERMANORUM English: Statue of Antoninus Pius at the entrance of Saalburg. The inscription on the plaque reads: Wilhelm II, son of Friedrich III, grandson of Wilhelm the Great, in the 15th year of his reign, in memory and honor of his parents (or forefathers?), restored the Roman limes (border) fort of Saalsburg. The inscription on the base of the statue reads: To Emperor of the Romans, Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, [from] Wilhelm II, Emperor of the Germans.
context_page_description: The Saalburg is a Roman fort located on the main ridge of the Taunus, northwest of Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany. It is a cohort fort, part of the Limes Germanicus, the Roman linear border fortification of the German provinces. The Saalburg, located just off the main road roughly halfway between Bad Homburg and Wehrheim is the most completely reconstructed Roman fort in Germany. Since 2005, as part of the Upper German limes, it forms part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. In the modern numbering system for the limes, it is ORL 11.
context_section_description: The earliest examinations of the site were undertaken from 1853 to 1862  by the Nassau Antiquarian Society under the direction of Friedrich Gustav Habel (1793–1867). But the great impulse to provincial Roman archaeology in Germany came in 1892, when the Reichs-Limes-Kommission (the Imperial Commission for the Roman borders), then chaired by Theodor Mommsen began to research the course of the Limes Germanicus in its entirety, as well as the location of all its forts. In the course of this enormous project, not completed for decades, intensive exploration of the Saalburg and its surroundings was pursued by the archaeologists charged with this stretch of the limes, Louis Jacobi (1836–1910) and his son and successor Heinrich Jacobi (1855–1946). In 1897, Kaiser Wilhelm II, following a suggestion by L. Jacobi, ordered the reconstruction of the Saalburg fort according to the detailed results of its excavation. As  a result, the Saalburg became the most completely reconstructed fort on the entire limes. It also houses the Saalburg Museum, one of the two most important institutions dedicated to the study of the German Limes (the other being the Limesmuseum of Aalen). From 1967 to 1993, the museum was directed by the well-known archaeologist Dietwulf Baatz, whose many publications fostered a broad interest in provincial Roman archaeology well beyond specialist circles.
caption: Main Gate: Statue of Antoninus Pius by Johannes Götz and inscription referring to Wilhelm II.
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