Archaeological Museum Essenbach

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The Archaeological Museum Essenbach is a small archaeological museum in Markt Essenbach in Lower Bavaria in the Landshut district . The museum focuses on the settlement history of the middle Isar valley and is housed in two attic rooms of the Heimathaus . It was designed in cooperation with the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments , the State Office for the Non- State Museums in Bavaria , the Prehistoric State Collection and the municipal administration and was opened in July 1997. The museum displays more than three hundredFinds that all come from 193 different sites in the Essenbach municipality. The oldest exhibits include finds from the nearby town of Altheim , which gave its name to the Altheim group in the 1910s . Among other things, the museum shows finds from a Bavarian row burial ground and it illustrates the difficult salvage work of a 55 t Roman brick kiln in the winter of 1994.

literature

  • Dannhorn, Th. 55 tons of eventful history: the Roman brick kiln of Essenbach, district of Landshut. Arch. Year Bavaria 1994, 124ff.
  • Ders., The Archaeological Museum Essenbach, Lkr. Landshut. Arch. Year Bavaria 1997, 94ff.
  • Emmi Federhofer: The Roman brick kiln from Essenbach, district of Landshut. Publishing house Marie Leidorf , Rahden Westf. 2007 ISBN 978-3-89646-178-0
  • Barbara Kaffl: Pathological bone changes in the human skeleton finds from the Bavarian row grave field of Essenbach / Altheim (Landshut district). Dissertation. Technical University of Munich 1992

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Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '43.7 "  N , 12 ° 12' 59.8"  E