The military sites directly along the Danube River at the so-called Roman Limes are the subject of ongoing scientific research regularly. However, the sites of the rural hinterland, mainly in today's Lower Austria, are much less known. To address this unsatisfactory imbalance in the state of research, the archaeological settlement activities in a study area between the military centers on the Roman Danube frontier (Arelape/Pöchlarn, Favianis/Mautern an der Donau, Augustianis/Traismauer) and the ancient municipium Aelium Cetium/St. Pölten were treated in detail regarding landscape and settlement archaeology during the dissertation "Roman Rural Landscapes in Noricum." Selected results of the project, completed in 2021, and findings directly connected to it are presented in this article, thus providing new insights into the rural settlement in the Limes hinterland.