Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes

The Limes used either a natural boundary such as a river or typically an earth bank and ditch with a wooden palisade and watchtowers at intervals.

In the Roman limites we have, for the first time in European history, clearly defined territorial borders of a sovereign state that were visible on the ground to friend and foe alike.

Most of the Upper German-Rhaetian Limes did not follow rivers or mountain ranges, which would have formed natural boundaries for the Roman Empire.

The latest research tends to view at least the Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes not as a primarily military demarcation line, but rather a monitored economic boundary for the non-Roman lands.

Only after the foundation of the German Empire could archaeologists begin to study more precisely the route of the limes, about which there had previously only been a rudimentary knowledge.

In 1892, the Imperial Limes Commission (RLK) was established for this purpose in Berlin, under the direction of the ancient historian, Theodor Mommsen.

This division followed the administrative boundaries in 19th-century Germany and not that of ancient Rome: Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes in general Sections

The wooden watchtower reconstructed in 2008 and based on the work of Dietwulf Baatz
The Saalburg . Built 1899–1907, the site is the most significant attempt to reconstruct the archeological past. The southwest corner built by Louis Jacobi in 1885 with merlons at the wider and thus correct intervals, had to be replaced during the full reconstruction, probably at the behest of Emperor William II, with merlons spaced at the medieval interval, which is thus wrong. [ 1 ]
Roman tower ( reconstruction ) - Ober-Mörlen / Taunus (Section 4)
The Limes Gate at Dalkingen (WP 12/81), which was built in five phases of expansion
At WP 12/77, part of the limes wall has been fully reconstructed ( Mahdholz )
A map of the County of Hanau by Friedrich Zollmann in 1728 gives one of the earliest depictions of the limes, described as Reliquiae munimenti Romani sive Lineae adversos Germanos erectae, hodieque Der Pfalgraben, Pfolgraben vel Polgraben dictae