Vitudurum
St. Arbogast church in Oberwinterthur and the foundation walls at the site of the Roman castle
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| Alternate name | Vitodorum |
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| Location | Oberwinterthur |
| Region | former Germania Superior, present municipality of Winterthur, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 47°30′0″N 8°44′00″E / 47.50000°N 8.73333°ECoordinates: 47°30′0″N 8°44′00″E / 47.50000°N 8.73333°E |
| Type | Vicus |
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| Material | stone and wood |
| Founded | around 4 BC |
| Abandoned | Around 401 AD by the Roman army, settlement continued by Gallo-Roman inhabitants |
| Periods | Roman Republic to Roman Empire |
| Cultures | Gallo-Roman |
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| Condition | aeaorchological access |
| Ownership | City of Winterthur |
| Management | Canton of Zürich |
| Public access | Foundation walls at the St. Arbogast church |
Vitudurum (sometimes Vitodorum) is the name of a Roman Vicus, those remains are located in Oberwinterthur, a locality of the municipality of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
The majority of the remains of commercial, residential, religious and public buildings are situated in Oberwinterthur, a locality of the municipality of Winterthur, around the St. Arbogast church, at Unterer Bühl, Kastellweg and Bätmur Flur.
Vitudurum was established nearby productive resources and a prehistorican route from Lake Geneva to Lake Constance (Arbor Felix, Brigantium) in the late first century BC or early first century AD. It was located at the probably route leading to the north (Ad Fines, Tasgetium), presumably also towards Turicum, and towards the Irgenhausen Castrum and Centum Prata (Kempraten), and on the water transport route Obersee–Linth–Walensee on the Gotthard Pass route towards the Roman heartland in Italy.
The Roman timber buildings were dendrochronologically dated around 4 BC. In 7 AD the Romans rebuilt the passageway in the Oberwinterthur area into a road. Starting from the village's center on the church hill (St. Arbogast) at the beginning of the 1st century AD, a street village stretched at a length of about 500 metres (1,640 ft) having several insulae (districts). The open settlement had its flowering time in the 1st and 2nd centuries. During the Alamanii invasion, the vicus was replaced respectively fortified by a castrum (fort) on the present St. Arbogast church hill, surrounded by a wall. The date of the construction of the fortification around 294 AD is documented by its inscription stone. At the same place the predecessor building of the St. Arbogast church was erected in the 6th/7th century.
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