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5. Visegrád – Sibrik-domb
KÖH id. nr.: 32382
Pone Navata?
This fortress located on the top of a hill
rising above the Danube was excavated by
Sándor Soproni and his colleagues in the 1950s.
The fortress is triangular, or rather bellshaped,
with dimensions of 117×130 m. The
walls are 1.05-1.15 m thick, and there are Ushaped
wall towers and fan shaped corner
towers. We know of two interior buildings
constructed on the inner side of the walls.
The entrance to the fortress was around the
middle of the Danube façade, where a horseshoe
shaped tower was found. In its second period a
double gated entryway was constructed on the
site of gate towers that had presumably been
demolished. In its third period a 14.2×12.9 m
tower with a round pillar holding up the floor of
the upper story was built on this same site. The
second period of construction can be placed at
the time of Constantine II or Valentinian I, while
the third period was at the turn of the 5 th century.
During its final period the soldiers were only
garrisoned and lived in this third-period tower. In
the first third of the 5 th century the Romans
completely abandoned the fortress, however its
walls withstood time and were still in good
enough shape that in the 10 th -11 th century the
seat of a new county was established here.
The southeastern corner and southern wall
of the fortress, as well as the later watch-tower
on the western side can be seen, but the other
parts have been covered up. A paved road leads
to the fortress.
Boundaries of core and buffer zones:
The border of the core zone runs along the
boundary of the property that contains the
fortress. Included in the buffer zone are two
neighboring lots, as well as two land registry lot
numbers for the road running in a semicircular
arch below the fortress, land registry lot number
101 to the east and number 099 to the
northeastern corner of the lot.
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Bibliography:
SOPRONI 1954, 49-54.
SOPRONI 1978, 55-59.
SOPRONI 1985, 44-52.
VISY 2003a, 52.
11. The fortress from the air
(Photo: Máté Szabó)
12. The exhibited remains of the late Roman watch-tower
(Photo: Gábor Varga)
13. The ground plan of the the fortress
(Source: SOPRONI 1978, Taf. 61.)