The rectangular temple structure measured roughly 16 feet in length. At its centre lay a smaller chamber with three walls, believed to have served as the location for religious ceremonies.
The fort housed approximately 160 soldiers from the Numerus Nidensium, a military unit whose name derives from Nida, a Roman settlement now located in Heddernheim, a Frankfurt district. The civilian settlement, or vicus, adjacent to the fort may have accommodated as many as 700 residents, including craftspeople and others supporting the military presence.
The Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes extends roughly 342 miles from the Rhine to the Danube and received a Unesco World Heritage designation in 2005.
Discoveries at the temple area included an antique fibula, a type of clothing brooch, along with pieces of handmade pottery. Archaeologists identified these artefacts as the first physical proof that the location continued to be inhabited following the Roman military’s departure.
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