Menosgada

Menosgada ("town above the Main valley")[2] was a Celtic metropolis on the Upper Main (river) that was mentioned by the Greek geographer, Ptolemy.

Around 200 BC, the simple Early Celtic fortification was expanded into an oppidum, covering an area of 49 hectares,[2] that was protected by a 2,800-metre-long defensive wall and ditch against the inhabitants of the neighbouring Jura lands.

In the centre of the site is an acropolis measuring 3 hectares in area.

Menosgada met its demise around 50 BC[2] when the Romans tried unsuccessfully to advance eastwards along the Main graben to the Elbe river, but ran into massive opposition from the Germanic tribes.

In 50 AD, Menosgada was at the northernmost point of the area occupied by the Varisci.