Editing Stuttgart (section)

=== Antiquity ===
Originally, the most important location in the [[Neckar]] river valley was the hilly rim of the [[:de:Stuttgarter Talkessel|Stuttgart basin]] at what is today [[Bad Cannstatt]].<ref name="StadtHist">{{cite web |title=Stuttgarter Stadtgeschichte – kurz gefasst |url=http://www.stuttgart.de/item/show/460856 |publisher=City of Stuttgart |access-date=14 October 2018 |df=dmy-all}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Thus, the first settlement of Stuttgart was a massive [[Roman Empire|Roman]] ''[[Castra]] stativa'' ([[:de:Kastell Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt|Cannstatt Castrum]])<ref name="EBStutt"/> built {{circa|90}} [[Anno Domini|AD]] to protect the Villas and vineyards blanketing the landscape and the road from [[Roman Mogontiacum|Mogontiacum]] (now [[Mainz]]) to [[Augusta Vindelicorum]] (Augsburg). Cannstatt was a part of the Roman [[imperial province]] [[Germania Superior]].

As with many military installations, a settlement sprang up nearby and remained there even after the [[Limes (Roman Empire)|limes]] moved further east. When they did, the town was left in the capable hands of a local [[brickwork]]s that produced sophisticated architectural ceramics and pottery.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brandl |first1=Ulrich |last2=Federhofer |first2=Emmi |title=Ton + Technik. Römische Ziegel |year=2010 |publisher=Theiss |location=Stuttgart |isbn=978-3-8062-2403-0}}</ref> When the Romans were driven back past the [[Rhine]] and [[Danube]] rivers in the third century by the [[Alamanni]],{{sfn|Gühring|2004|p=52}} the settlement temporarily vanished from history until the seventh century.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://driveline-online.de/en/early-history-of-stuttgart/ |title=Early history of Stuttgart |access-date=14 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015003024/https://driveline-online.de/en/early-history-of-stuttgart/ |archive-date=15 October 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>