Perfect timing. I’m in Frankfurt for business, all the way from Eastern Arabia, Abu Dhabi to be precise, and though I pride myself as a History-buff, I’ve never heard of the place, before watching this awesome video of yours. Thanks Ryan! Will be checking it out first thing tomorrow!
Update: Thank you again. Definitely worth the visit. I spent three hours taking every minuscule detail in. The perfect ending to my business trip, and all thanks to you Dr. Ryan 🫡 Highly recommended everyone, and try imagining you’re a Centurion, or better yet, a legionnaire on the verge of completing his 25 years of service in a few months’ time. I did that, and was like “Alright, a few months, and I’m back to Arabia Petraea, Jupiter willing.” 😛
So not only a military fortress/outpost but also administrative for locals and Romans alike. Larger than say a fort on the Hadrian wall, Damn cool Dr. Ryan! ❤
As a student of roman provincial archeology at the university in Frankfurt I have been there many times. And it is amazing every single time. The attempted reconstructions of Roman war machines from the last century are both interesting and hilariously inaccurate. Ps: the Roman style food you can eat there is very good Would have loved to meet you
Lovely Kastel/fort I love to come back to every now and then. Interesting reconstructions and exhibition pieces. On Pentecost weekends (next weekend!) they usually do little events like "show baking and cooking", all around roman eating culture. They also have a restaurant that serves roman food and drink. And you can take a stroll along the Limes, the ancient demarkation line / border wall.
That strongly reminds me of the Roman fort reproductions in Assassin's Creed: Origins. Even if you hate video games you can walk through the world in "tour mode."
@@dylanlloyd349 It is! And incredibly photo realistic! The deserts are amazing, and the structures look like the old water colors made by early researchers from Europe including Napoleon's "savants." Someone told me it looked better than Odyssey before I bought it, and they were so right.
Great to see a video in which you are walking us through the Saalburg. I am living nearby in Frankfurt and will take the next possible oportunity for a visit. This time walking in your foodsteps - a totally new perspective! 😄 In watching your video I realized the layout of buildings looks as a blueprint for cloisters in the times after the Romans in Europe for me.
Did it have a small bathhouse and heated room for the commander as well? I visited a reconstructed Roman fort in Germany somewhere between 25-30 years ago, but can’t remember where anymore. They used their under-floor and wall heating methods to give the commander a (relatively small) warm room in which to work in the winter. My memory of that trip is a bit fuzzy… we saw several Roman bathhouse ruins during the trip, but I can’t recall whether the fort had one as well. I think the reconstruction was possibly newer than this one - they found the fort based on areal photography during a drought… I can see the enlarged photo reproductions in my mind’s eye, but can’t remember when they were taken.
Oh awesome, thank you for reminding me this still exists. Been there a couple of times as a kid, will try and go there again soon :-) It is a great place, feeling a bit like a portal into another time btw dude, you might want to invest into a lavalier microphone. This would greatly improve your audio, as some sequences now are hard to understand due to the wind
Nice wish I had known about it when I lived over there. I notice not too many visitors either, sad to say. Visit Trier for a full Roman flavor! While in the military I was given a full guided tour of Trier, paid for by the US Air Force for some reason.
It’s hard in my head to say “Roman” simply because it looks so pristine as a reconstruction. We are so used to structures of the past being degraded with time
