Römerbad Jagsthausen

The Römerbad Jagsthausen is a small open-air museum in the village of Jagsthausen, set among the parkland of the White Castle and the local parish church. It stands on the reconstructed foundations of a Roman bath-house first built about 155 CE and later enlarged under Septimius Severus around 200 CE. The site lies close to the former Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, the northern frontier of the Roman Empire. The bath-house is important because it was used by soldiers of the Twenty-Second Legion Primigenia Pia Fidelis, whose stamped bricks have been found nearby. Excavations in the 19th century uncovered the small bathing building, and in 1908–13 a nearby cemetery held about 200 cremation urns. Systematic recording in 1992 showed the bath-house stretched for roughly 40 metres, with walls reaching the present main street where the main entrance once stood. Today visitors walk over the preserved foundations and see an ideal reconstruction of the modest military bath-house. Information boards explain the finds on display, including copies of altars, a veterans’ stone and a weekly deities stone. The surrounding parkland, once part of the larger vicus outside the cohort fort, offers quiet places to pause while imagining the legionaries who once bathed here.