Archaeological Open Air Museum Oerlinghausen
 Viking festival in a Bronze Age stable house |
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| place | Oerlinghausen |
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| opening | 1936 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 30,000 |
| management |
Karl Banghard junior
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-174512 |
The Archaeological Open-Air Museum Oerlinghausen (short: AFM Oerlinghausen ) is an archaeological open-air museum in Oerlinghausen in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Lippe in Germany .
The museum was founded in 1936 by Hans Reinerth on the wooded Barkhauser Berg between the Senne and the Teutoburg Forest as a "Germanic homestead". It is operated by an association supported by the city of Oerlinghausen and the Lippe regional association .
Exhibition areas
On an area of about 1.5 hectares, reconstructed structures of human life and living from the Paleolithic to the early Middle Ages are shown based on archaeological findings . The reconstructions include, among other camps, ice age reindeer hunters around 10,000 BC. BC, Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age residential stables .
The showpiece of the museum is the reconstruction of a Saxon nave based on findings from the 7th century AD, which was completed in 2008. Some of the buildings, some of which were reconstructed several decades ago, no longer reflect the current state of research due to their age. In the case of renovation work and new buildings, however, the latest research results were used again and again in order to adapt the appearance of the building to the more current state of knowledge. Some of the buildings have long exceeded their lifespan assumed by ancient science and suggest that the useful lives of prehistoric buildings could be longer than previously assumed.
Since 1986, the museum has endeavored to cultivate the typical natural vegetation and corresponding useful plants in the individual periods of time . A small attraction are the breeding of medieval pasture pigs , which are kept in enclosures adapted to the historical conditions.
history
The archaeological open-air museum in Oerlinghausen goes back to a "German homestead", which was built in 1932 after the Oerlinghausen historian Hermann Diekmann found part of a settlement from the time of the birth of Christ. The settlement was to be rebuilt for the city's 900th anniversary in 1936. In 1936, Hans Reinerth was won over as scientific director of the facility . The restoration of the homestead, consisting of a residential house and a wallless roof house, which served as a forge and pottery workshop, was taken over by Christian Murr. The facility was destroyed by fire after the end of the war and then demolished by local authorities in 1946. In 1961, the reconstruction was made possible by the same actors (in charge of Hermann Diekmann). The homestead was now known as the "Germanic homestead", which refers to the house's occupation with the Germanic tribes. The reconstruction site is only approx. 400 m away from the site of the first homestead, which was built in 1936. Now eight instead of two buildings were erected: a manor house, a retirement home, a guest house, a workshop with a pottery and blacksmith's shop, a weaving house and a shepherd's hut as well as a cow and goat barn. This reconstruction was not supported by archaeological finds and was based on the image of the German farmer from the 19th century. In 1974 the Cheruscan farm burned down. The museum was then rebuilt until 1979. It dates back to the beginning of 1936 and is therefore the oldest open-air museum in Germany, which deals with the history of the Teutons.
society
The museum is run by the Oerlinghausen Archaeological Open-Air Museum e. V. It is financially supported by the city of Oerlinghausen and the Lippe regional association to the amount of 190,000 euros annually (2012). The regional association Lippe terminated the cooperation association at the end of 2014 with the aim of reducing its grant.
management
The director of the museum, Karl Banghard , is the son of local history researcher and journalist Karl Banghard (senior) from Flehingen.
Banghard was actively involved in the context of the dispute over the re-enactment group Ulfhednar . In 2007 there was considerable criticism of the group's frequent involvement by archaeological museums and institutions, among other things because of exaggerated and ahistorical wolf fishing and swastika representations and a distorted view of history that was conveyed in this way. Banghard contributed to the incident under the somewhat ironic title "Under the Crochet Cross" and also made it a subject of panel discussions and events.
According to Banghard, most visitors to the museum are not necessarily looking for specialist information. A possible motivation to visit a museum, there would be a feature of Germany radios According in counter-world needs, motivated by a mixture of esotericism and interest in a mythical past. According to Banghard, open-air museums are service providers in the education and entertainment market that have to finance themselves. His museum work is about everyday life and the environment of people and also about showing how identities are cobbled together.
Banghard was released from early October 2013 to early June 2016 for a research assignment to develop a new concept for the archaeological open-air museum. During this time he was represented by Roeland Paardekooper for the daily management of the museum.
Jutta Deitermann was in charge of museum education until 2016 and Marcus Coesfeld from 2017 to 2018 .
deals
The museum's offerings are focused on children and young people. Appropriate museum educational experience and action support are offered. A wide range of historical information is available for adults. The AFM Oerlinghausen is also known for its extensive seminar program, e.g. B. on the topics of "bow making" or "dyeing with vegetable dyes " and through various events such as the " Stone Age days ", " Franconia and Saxony ", " Romans and Germanic peoples " or "The Vikings are coming". A Long Museum Night has also been held every year since 2018.
See also
literature
- Claus Ahrens: Reconstructed prehistoric times. Archaeological open-air museums in Europe , Neumünster 1990, ISBN 978-3529018381 .
- Karl Banghard junior: Oerlinghausen archaeological open-air museum - compact. Archaeological Open Air Museum, Oerlinghausen 2006, ISBN 978-3-926933-02-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ahrens, Claus: Reconstructed prehistory. Archaeological open-air museums in Europe, Neumünster 1990, p. 21.
- ↑ Ahrens, Claus: Reconstructed prehistory. Archaeological open-air museums in Europe, Neumünster 1990, p. 21.
- ↑ Ahrens, Claus: Reconstructed prehistory. Archaeological open-air museums in Europe, Neumünster 1990, p. 22.
- ↑ Lippische Landes-Zeitung of December 14, 2012: Archaeological Open-Air Museum: State association terminates agreement , accessed on October 20, 2013
- ↑ a b c July 2, 2008. Germans, gods and scholars. Living history and the search for identity. Germany radio. By Rolf Cantzen
- ↑ Karl Banghard, Under the Crochet Cross, Germanic Living History and Right Affects: A Historical Overview in Three Highlights , in Hans-Peter Killguss: The Invention of the Germans. Reception of the Varus Battle and the mystification of the Germanic peoples, Publishing House NS Documentation Center, Cologne 2009, 56 pages; ISBN 978-3-938636-12-1 . With contributions from Professor Reinhard Wolters, Dr. Tilmann Bendikowski, Dirk Mellies, Michael Fehrenschild, Karl Banghard, Alexander Häusler, Jan Raabe, Dr. Michael cell.
- ↑ Neue Westfälische Zeitung of May 10, 2016: From June, Karl Banghard will again be in charge of the Archaeological Open-Air Museum , accessed on August 4, 2016
- ↑ Gunter Held: Marcus Coesfeld is the new museum educator . In: Oerlinghausen . ( nw.de [accessed March 7, 2018]).
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 3 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 50 ″ E