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The roman name of the fort is unsaved. It is presumed, that the easternmost camp in Noricum was Cannabiaca, which is mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum.
A first timber-turf-fort was built in the last decades of the 1st century AD. The conversion in stone was completed around the middle of the 2nd century.
All today visible buildings come from conversions of the late 3rd and 4th century AD. In this time the angle towers were altered into fan towers and the side towers in horseshoe towers.
To the middle of the 4th century was built a tower-like rest fort in the northwest corner. The rest of the fort surface was used by the civilian population.
The vicus (camp village) was west and south of the fort.
At the end of the 5th century the place was abandoned and presumable settled again around AD 790.
The
rest fort is to the part preserved still meter-highly. Wall rests of the northeast
fan tower are also to see. The Koernerkasten is a question of the former porta
principalis dextra (right camp gate). Under the school building the remains of a horseshoe tower of the southern wall
are preserved furthermore.
Under the parish church were found parts of the principia. This excavation seems not to be accessible however yet.