House in Striscia – Wikipedia

A House in Striscia ( Streifenhaus in German) is a type of house characteristic of street In the Roman provinces of the North-West, marked by the Gallo-Roman populations. Their presence is also attested in larger cities.

This type of building was very narrow and extended along the side of the road to ensure as much as possible access to the main street within a street Roman. The associated plots were adapted to the shape of the building. The houses could be up to 40 meters long, but usually they were between 5 and 16 meters wide. The side of the pediment is usually arranged on the road. So far, it has not been possible to identify any specific structure among the Houses in Striscia Examine. The buildings may have been built from wall wall, or shared an external wall. Often a narrow corridor, a so -called circuit , separated the houses. On the opposite side of the road there was often a courtyard with an oven and/or a well. The arrangement of the Houses in Striscia varied. Often there was a narrow space on the street front that occupies the entire wide of the house. Here was probably a shop from which customers could be served on the street. These types of homes dominated the back of the street . In addition, the protruding part of the roof formed a covered pedestrian crossing.

Starting from the middle of the first century, the houses were built with a technology called to grace with wooden foundations. Since the end of the first century, the buildings were built as gracbius houses with stone foundations and from the 2nd century entirely in stone. In the development of stone construction, he reflects the growing prosperity and consolidation of the population of the province in the II and the beginning of the third century. So from the second century, even in Houses in Striscia , a wall plaster with frescoes was increasingly used ^[first] . When the settlements were affected by the Germanic invasions in the second half of the third century, they were usually reconstructed in grace constructions, as evidenced by the example of Iuliacum (Jülich).

In 2009 two were built Houses in Striscia (shop and workshop) on the ground of street di Saalburg ^[2] .

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