Bodobrica

Vicus Baudobriga (Bodobriga/Bontobrica) was founded during the Roman conquest and settlement of Gaul along the left bank of the Rhine, on a route into the Mühltal. Its Celtic name suggests an earlier or contemporaneous Celtic presence. As the Roman frontier expanded, the Middle Rhine lost military importance but gained significance as a trade and supply route. After the mid-3rd century, the Rhine again became the imperial border. In the mid-4th century, emperors Julian and Valentinian I secured the region and a late Roman fort was built at Boppard. Roman troops were withdrawn around 405, and the site reappears in written sources only in 643 as a Frankish royal estate and administrative centre.

Mithraic monuments of Bodobrica