Stockstadt am Main

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Stockstadt am Main, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1... / CC BY SA 3.0 • #Municipalities_in_Bavaria • #Aschaffenburg_(district) • Constituent communities Stockstadt am Main （officially: Stockstadt a.Main） is a market community in the Aschaffenburg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia （Unterfranken） in Bavaria, Germany. • The settlement was established by the Romans who built a fort here in the 1st century AD. Stockstadt has a population of around 8,000 （2020）. • Stockstadt am Main lies on Aschaffenburg’s western town limit on the Main’s left bank. • To Stockstadt’s west and northwest runs the boundary with Hesse, and southwest of Stockstadt lies the Bachgau. • To the south is the community of Großostheim, and to the southwest, beyond the state boundary, in Hesse, lies Babenhausen; northwest lie Mainhausen and Seligenstadt. • The nearest neighbouring communities are Kleinostheim to the north and Mainaschaff to the east. • Stockstadt am Main The Romans built a castrum at Stockstadt, as part of the Limes Germanicus. • In the 1st century AD a small earthen fortification was erected. • Around the year 100 it was replaced by a full cohort fort further to the southeast. • This castrum had a size of 3. • 2 ha. • Over time, it was occupied by the cohorts III Aquitanorum, II Hispanorum and I Aquitanorum. • Stockstadt was also the site of a de:Benefiziarer station （i.e. a road house）. • After the withdrawal of the Romans from the area, the regional population declined. • Burgundians and Alemanni moved through the lower Main region, but it was only under the Franks （after 500 AD） that the population density again rose noticeably. • Their settlements often did not simply grow out of the formerly Roman cores but included separate newly established sites. • At Stockstadt, a Frankish graveyard was discovered to the northwest of the Roman structures. • The Frankish settlement was likely located nearby, on the right bank of the Gersprenz, north of the former Roman structures. • The ini...

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