Vitudurum (sometimes
Vitodorum) is the name of a Roman
vicus, whose remains are located in
Oberwinterthur 
, a locality of the municipality of
Winterthur 
in the canton of Zürich in
Switzerland 
.
Geography
The majority of the remains of commercial, residential, religious and public buildings are situated in Oberwinterthur, a locality of the municipality of Winterthur, around the St. Arbogast church, at Unterer Bühl, Kastellweg and Bätmur Flur.
Location
Vitudurum was established nearby productive resources and a prehistorican route from
Lake Geneva 
to
Lake Constance 
(
Arbor Felix, Brigantium) in the late first century BC or early first century AD. It was located at the probably route leading to the north (Ad Fines, Tasgetium), presumably also towards Turicum, and towards the
Irgenhausen Castrum 
and
Centum Prata 
(
Kempraten 
), and on the water transport route Obersee–Linth–
Walensee 
on the
Gotthard Pass 
route towards the Roman heartland in Italy.
History
The Roman timber buildings were dendrochronologically dated around 4 BC. In AD 7 the Romans rebuilt the passageway in the Oberwinterthur area into a road. Starting from the village's center on the church hill (St.