Villa rustica


Villa rustica was the term used by the ancient Romans to denote a farmhouse or villa set in the countryside and with an agricultural section, which applies to the vast majority of Roman villas. In some cases they were at the centre of a large agricultural estate, sometimes called a latifundium. The adjective rustica was used only to distinguish it from a much rarer sub-urban resort villa, or otium villa built for purely leisure and luxury, and typically located in the Bay of Naples. The villa rustica would thus serve both as a residence of the landowner and his family and also as a farm management centre. It would often comprise separate buildings to accommodate farm labourers and sheds and barns for animals and crops.
The villa rustica's design differed, but usually it consisted of two parts; the pars urbana, and the pars rustica.

List of villae rusticae

Austria

Baden-Württemberg
  • Villa Rustica, Baden-Baden-Haueneberstein, Roman settlement at Wohlfahrtsberg
  • Villa Rustica at Bondorf, Böblingen
  • , Konstanz
  • , Lörrach
  • Villa Rustica at Eigeltingen
  • Villa Rustica at Gaggenau-Bad Rotenfels / Oberweier
  • Villa urbana at Grenzach-Wyhlen
  • , Zollernalbkreis
  • Villa urbana at Heitersheim
  • , Sigmaringen
  • Villa Rustica at Hirschberg
  • , Sigmaringen
  • Villa Rustica at Karlsruhe-Durlach
  • Villa Rustica at Langenau
  • , Sigmaringen
  • , Heilbronn
  • Villa Rustica at Mühlacker
  • Villa Rustica at Nagold
  • Villa Rustica at Oberndorf-Bochingen
  • , Rems-Murr-Kreis
  • , Heilbronn
  • , Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
  • , Tuttlingen
  • , Heilbronn
  • Villa Rustica Bietigheim-Weilerlen at Bietigheim-Bissingen, Ludwigsburg
Bavaria
  • , Stadt München
  • Villa Rustica at Großberghofen, Dachau
  • , Donau-Ries
  • Villa Rustica at Hüssingen
  • Villa Rustica Kohlhunden, Ostallgäu
  • , Stadt Starnberg
  • Villa Rustica, Eichstätt
  • , Freising
  • , Ingolstadt
  • Villa Rustica, Weilheim-Schongau
  • , Oberallgäu
Hesse
  • Groß-Umstadt-Heubach,
  • , Odenwald
  • Rodau, Zwingenberg, "Kleine Weide"
Northrhine-Westphalia
  • Villae Rusticae at Eschweiler, Aachen
  • , Eschweiler, Aachen
  • Villae Rusticae near Hambach surface mine, Düren
  • at Sollig, Nettersheim-Roderath, Euskirchen
Rheinland-Palatine
Saarland
Aargau
Basel-Landschaft
Genf
Jura
Solothurn
Waadt
Zürich
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