Berndmark Heukemes

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Berndmark Heukemes in the church window of St. Gallus

Berndmark Heukemes (born February 26, 1924 in Aachen , † January 16, 2009 in Heidelberg ) was a German archaeologist.

Life

Lobdengau Museum in Ladenburg
Jupiter giant column in front of the museum

After attending school in Aachen , Heukemes took part in the Second World War. He was wounded six times, including one so badly that he was momentarily blind. After the war, from 1945 to 1951, he studied architecture and building history at the Technical University in Karlsruhe and art history, archeology and early history at the University of Heidelberg .

While still a student, Heukemes began researching in Ladenburg ( Lopodunum ) in 1948 , with which his important research began in the Rhine-Neckar region , but above all in Ladenburg and Heidelberg . As one of the pioneers of aerial archeology in post-war Germany, he began reconnaissance flights in the Rhine-Neckar area in 1952 with the help of an American military aircraft and found 17 Roman villae rusticae . In 1960 Heukemes received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg on the subject of "Heidelberg Ceramics of the Roman Age". From 1962 to 1992 he was head of the archaeological department of the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg .

In addition, Heukemes has been involved on a voluntary basis for decades. From 1949 he was the official preservationist for Heidelberg and the district of Heidelberg . From 1959 he lived in Ladenburg in the Bischofshof, where the Lobdengau Museum , which he supervised scientifically, opened the following year . He was involved in numerous excavations in the city. He was also committed to the proper restoration of the historic old town of Ladenburg, which was threatened with decay, disfigurement and destruction. In 1973 he was co-founder of the Heiligenberg Protection Association in Heidelberg , which he chaired until 1997.

The most important finds of Heukeme include the Neckarsueben burial ground in Ladenburg, the Sol Mithras relief, the theater, the grave of Bishop Ludwig Anton von Pfalz-Neuburg in the Sebastian Chapel , the Jupiter giant column , the 54-piece bronze treasure, the Burgus and the Celtic square -Schanze and in Heidelberg the grave of Elector Friedrich the Victorious in the Jesuit Church and the largest contiguous grave field in southern Germany with 1400 graves (until 1970 as head of the excavation).

Heukemes has received many awards. In 1952 he received the medal of the University Prize of Heidelberg University, Ladenburg made him an honorary citizen in 1984 , in 1985 he received the medal of the Dombauhütte Speyer , in 1986 the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon , in 1989 the home medal of the state of Baden-Württemberg , in 1990 the Upper Rhine Culture Prize of the Goethe Foundation Basel and in 1994 the citizen medal of the city of Heidelberg. In December 2012, Dr. Berndmark Heukemes plant near the Lobdengau Museum in Ladenburg opened as a memorial for the former museum director, archaeologist and Ladenburg honorary citizen and a memorial plaque was unveiled.

literature

  • Bernd Burger: Dr. Berndmark Heukemes , in: Yearbook of the Handschuhsheim district association 2009, pp. 99–100.
  • Ladenburg Lexicon . Norderstedt 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-6799-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The area at the Lobdengau Museum in Ladenburg now bears the name Dr. Berndmark Heukemes plant
personal data
SURNAME Heukemes, Berndmark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2009
Place of death Ladenburg