!!!Lauriacum

Lauriacum, important Roman settlement in the area of  Lorch, mentioned 
in several Antique sources (Tabula Peutingeriana, Itinerarium 
Antonini, Notitia Dignitatum, Ammianus Marcellinus, Codex 
Theodosianus, Codex Iustinianus, Passio Floriani, Martyrologium 
Hieronymianum, Vita Severini). First report of inscriptions on a stone 
in 1321, a Roman mosaic floor was found in 1765; excavations since the 
2%%sup nd/%  half of the 19%%sup th/%  century. Archaeological finds 
in the Museum Lauriacum in Enns.

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A small settlement already existed in the 1%%sup st/%  century. 
Contains the only remaining Roman ceiling fresco in Austria, which 
dates back to the middle of the 2%%sup nd/%  century. Around 200 A.D. 
the 2%%sup nd/%  Italic legion established a 539 m long and 398 m 
large camp. Parts of the trench which was in front of the camp have 
been conserved. In late Antiquity it was the head office of the 
commander of the 2%%sup nd/%  Italic legion (praefectus legionis 
secundae Italicae) and of a fleet commander (praefectus classis 
Lauriacensis). A planned settlement, which became an independent town 
(municipium) in 212, emerged west of the camp. In 341 Emperor 
Constantius was in Lauriacum

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St.  Florian, the only early Christian martyr of Austria known by 
name, was thrown into the River Enns on May 4, 304. A small early 
Christian church in the former hospital of the camp was turned into 
the church Maria am Anger in the Middle Ages, which but was demolished 
in 1792. Underneath the modern St. Laurenz basilica of Lorch, evidence 
of an early Christian church inside an antique building where the 
relics of the companions of St. Florian were venerated. Constantius, 
the only bishop of Lauriacum who was known by name, is mentioned in 
the  Vita Severini. The name "Lauriacum" is of Celtic origin. Later it 
became "Lorahha" and "Loriaca" (791) and today it is "Lorch".

!Literature
H. Vetters, L., 1977; G. Winkler, Lorch in der Roemerzeit, 
1981; Severin zwischen Roemerzeit und Voelkerwanderung, exhibition 
catalogue, Enns 1982; regular reports in the information leaflets of 
the Lauriacum museum association.


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