page_title: Cronheim
section_title: Romans 90 to 259
hierarchical_section_title: Cronheim / History / Romans 90 to 259
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Wp 14/4 – Auf dem Vorderen Schloßbuck. Rekonstruktion.
context_page_description: Cronheim is a village in the municipality of Gunzenhausen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district which forms part of the Bavarian Government district of Mittelfranken. The hamlet of Filchenhard forms part of Cronheim.
context_section_description: In the year 90 the Romans expelled the Celts, occupied the inhabited areas north of the Donau River and expanded into the area. The Celtic population wasn't banished from the region by the Romans but made tributary to them. To protect and getting control over the borders, the Roman started back in 138 under the Roman Caesar Antoninus Pius to extend the Roman boundary wall, Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, and also included now the area north of Cronheim. Thanks to dendrochronological investigations of the wood used for the construction for the part of the Limes passing Cronheim, we now know that it was cut in 162, at the time when Marcus Aurelius was the Roman emperor, when this particular section of the Limes was built. In the second century two Roman military roads crossed at the location where Cronheim is now situated.
caption: Model of the Roman Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes
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