Archäopark Vogelherd

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Archäopark Vogelherd
Archäopark Vogelherd (May 2013)

Archäopark Vogelherd (May 2013)

place Niederstotzingen , Germany
opening 1st of May 2013
Visitors 30,000 (2012)
surface 3.5 hectares
building-costs 4,055,312 euros
Website www.archaeopark-vogelherd.de
Archäopark Vogelherd (Germany)
Archäopark Vogelherd
Archäopark Vogelherd
Location of the park

Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ′ 29 "  N , 10 ° 11 ′ 47"  E

The Archäopark Vogelherd is an archaeological theme park at the Vogelherd Cave in the Lone Valley on the Swabian Alb near Stetten ob Lontal , a district of Niederstotzingen in the Heidenheim district , Baden-Württemberg .

The groundbreaking ceremony for the area designed by the Munich architecture firm Ritter Jockisch and the landscape architecture firm Keller Damm Kollegen took place on January 12, 2012, and the Archäopark was opened on May 1, 2013.

In addition to an outdoor area with action areas and access to the Vogelherd cave, it includes a visitor and information center , in whose exhibition room two original Vogelherd figures are permanently presented. At the same time, the concept of the facility represents the Vogelherd cave in conjunction with the other archaeologically important Lone Valley caves .

Exhibits

  • Cave lion

  • mammoth

  • The overburden from the 1931 excavation, which from 2006 onwards revealed further Paleolithic artifacts in a reevaluation

  • A reconstructed tent from the Stone Age as a paleolithic outdoor station in the Archaeopark

During archaeological excavations at Vogelherd between 2005 and 2012, numerous other Stone Age artefacts were discovered. A highlight of the museum presentation in the Archäopark is, besides the cave lion, the only 3.8 centimeter tall mammoth figure , which was found in 2006 and made around 40,000 years ago.

The Archäopark is also one of the steps to achieve in the medium term that the Vogelherd Cave is placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List . Caves of the oldest Ice Age art is the title of the cultural site that Germany put on the tentative list in 2015 at the suggestion of the state of Baden-Württemberg . In addition to the Vogelherd cave, there are five other caves in the Swabian Alb, which are important sites for human art. In 2016 the site was nominated for an entry on the World Heritage List by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee .

Visitor and information center

The visitor and information center was built in 2014 on behalf of the city of Niederstotzingen after a competition by the architectural office Ritter Jockisch Architektur / Innenarchitektur from Munich , the interiors were designed in cooperation with Lutzenberger & Lutzenberger in Bad Wörishofen .

The building is located 200 meters from the archaeological site and was embedded in a grassy hill in the valley near the village of Niederstotzingen-Stetten, which cannot be identified as a building from a distance. The rooms can be entered via a narrow entrance, which is designed as a dark corridor lined with concrete walls and is intended to symbolize the cave entrance. Another opening of the building is in the area of ​​the glazed cafeteria with an outdoor area. The back of the arched building is made of light-colored concrete, the front is completely glazed and offers a view of Vogelherdhügel. The design of the interior is restrained, plexiglass boards with information hang from the ceiling, and there are also animated films. Also made of concrete are seating steps with fur pads in the auditorium , where audio stories on Stone Age topics are played.

In a separate area, the “treasure chamber”, two original finds from the cave are shown with a mammoth and a lion figure.

  • Auditorium with fur-laid concrete seats

  • "Treasury" exhibition room

The outdoor area

The goal of the newly created paths in the Archäopark is the cave entrance of the Vogelherd cave

The outdoor area leads from the information center to the Vogelherd cave up a slope, where the visitor is guided along themed paths with themed places for weapons production, javelin throwing and making a fire to the large fire place and the cave entrance.

Research history in the Archäopark

The re-excavation and sponge work at Vogelherd in the excavation excavation from 1931 (here a picture from 2008) again unearthed many artifacts. The Archaeopark also presents this history of finds in detail. In 2013, paths were re-routed in the rising outdoor area for better accessibility, information boards deepen the history of archeology and excavations and now also lead past these remarkable places.

The Vogelherd Archaeological Park secures and presents on site, among other things, the proceeds of over 150 years of archaeological excavation and research history in the Lone Valley, including its side and neighboring valleys.

In the Lone Valley, the archaeological development of the Paleolithic begins as early as the 19th century with Oscar Fraas (1824–1897) and his extensive excavations in 1861 on the Hohlenstein . Fraas was initially so enthusiastic about the approximately 10,000 bones of the cave bears that he had not yet noticed the human remains at the time. It was not until 1866 that he realized that humans and Ice Age animals lived together. He then re-examined the Lone Valley.

The archaeological work in the Lone Valley was continued by Ernst Koken (1860–1912), Robert Rudolf Schmidt (1882–1950) and Gustav Riek (1900–1976). The latter dug out Vogelherd relatively quickly in 1931, after Hermann Mohn (1896–1958) had identified stone artifacts of Paleolithic origin in the ejecta of a roof structure.

Shortly before and after the Second World War, systematic excavations were carried out on the Hohlenfels by the anatomist Robert Wetzel (1898–1962) and his excavation manager Otto Völzing (1910–2001).

Joachim Hahn (1942–1997) succeeded in 1969 in assembling the lion man from the Lone Valley from many individual parts into a sculpture for the first time. Claus-Joachim Kind (* 1953) started new excavations in the Hohlenstein from 2008 to 2013 , which ultimately led to the re-evaluation and recomposition of the lion man, who has a prominent place in the Ulm Museum . In April 1970 , Hansjürgen Müller-Beck (* 1927) carried out successful exploratory excavations in the Spitzbubenhöhle in the neighboring Eselsburger Valley and published an archaeological overview guide to the Lonetal together with Wolfgang Taute (1934–1995) and Hahn with the title: Ice Age Caves in the Lonetal. Archeology of a landscape in the Swabian Alb .

Nicholas Conard (* 1961) began the archaeological excavation of 1931 from the time of Gustav Riek at the Vogelherd cave over several years and systematically silted it up. In doing so, u. a. found other important Aurignacien -small sculptures made of mammoth ivory. After systematic Geländeprospektion and surface inspection about the Linde cave and began in the Lone Valley in 2013 with excavations in other not yet explored caves, Fetzer stockpile cave .

All of these steps contributed to a multi-layered overall picture of the Ice Age and Stone Age, which is now being prepared in the Archäopark Vogelherd museum and made public.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Südwestrundfunk: Archäopark Vogelherd - Big stage for small mammoths . Retrieved May 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ Heidenheimer Zeitung of November 29, 2015: Archäopark was more expensive than planned , accessed on December 13, 2015
  3. ^ Ice Age archeology on the Swabian Alb. The sites in the Ach and Lone Valley and in their surroundings , ed. by Nicholas J. Conard , Michael Bolus, Ewa Dutkiewicz and Sibylle Wolf, Kerns Verlag Tübingen, 2015, p. 249, ISBN 978-3-935751-24-7
  4. ^ Caves with the oldest Ice Age art. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed April 16, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Caves of the oldest Ice Age art nominated for UNESCO World Heritage. In: www.kmk.org. Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, February 1, 2016, accessed on April 16, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e Karin Leydecker : Archäopark Vogelherd. In: Peter Cachola Schmal, Christina Gräwe, Yorck Förster (eds.) Deutsches Architektur Jahrbuch / German Architecture Annual 2014/15. Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, and Prestel, Verlag, Munich, 2014; Pp. 116-121, ISBN 978-3-7913-5393-7 .
  7. ^ Ice Age archeology on the Swabian Alb. The sites in the Ach and Lone Valley and in their surroundings , ed. by Nicholas J. Conard , Michael Bolus, Ewa Dutkiewicz and Sibylle Wolf, Kerns Verlag Tübingen, 2015, p. 189, ISBN 978-3-935751-24-7
  8. ↑ Ice Age Caves in the Lone Valley. Archeology of a landscape in the Swabian Alb. ed. by Joachim Hahn, Hansjürgen Müller-Beck and Wolfgang Taute. Verlag Müller und Gräff, Stuttgart 1973 in the series guides to prehistoric and early historical monuments in Baden-Württemberg. H. 3, ZDB ID 527337-7
  9. ↑ The research history follows the explanations in: Ice Age Archeology on the Swabian Alb. The sites in the Ach and Lone Valley and in their surroundings , ed. by Nicholas J. Conard , Michael Bolus, Ewa Dutkiewicz and Sibylle Wolf, Kerns Verlag Tübingen, 2015, pp. 32–37, ISBN 978-3-935751-24-7

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