Bodo Zehm

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Bodo Zehm, 2016

Bodo Zehm (* 1951 in Engter ) is a German prehistorian and archaeologist who worked at the Osnabrück City and District Archeology from 1981 and headed it from 2002 until his retirement in 2017.

Career

Bodo Zehm studied education and media sciences at the University of Osnabrück and from 1977 worked as a museum educator at the Osnabrück Cultural History Museum . In 1981 he switched to the city and district archeology of Osnabrück as an excavation photographer, where he was involved in various excavations, including the Marienkirche and the Osnabrück town hall . From 1986 he led excavations and projects in Osnabrück and the district of Osnabrück . This included the research project "Eschprospektion" in the Osnabrücker Land, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, to research the Plaggeneschboden , the excavations in front of the former Osnabrück Dominican monastery and the investigation of the prehistoric burial ground on the Bornhügel in Gretesch . In the 1990s he led excavations at the Osnabrück Cathedral and the buried bridge of the former city fortifications of Osnabrück in front of the Heger Tor at the Felix Nussbaum House .

In 1992 Bodo Zehm became deputy head of the “Archaeological Monument Preservation” department in Osnabrück, in whose development he was involved. At the beginning of 2003 he took over the management of the specialist service as successor to Wolfgang Schlueter . Zehm curated exhibitions such as “Castles and Fortifications - 25 Years of City and District Archeology Osnabrück” and the exhibition project for the 500th anniversary of the Osnabrück town hall.

Bodo Zehm during the interview on the copper treasure from Osnabrück , right in the showcase, 2016

The end of his professional career was the excavation and investigation of the copper treasure of Osnabrück . A probe worker discovered the Neolithic hoard in 2016 on the site of a rainwater retention basin in the Lüstringen district . In 2017, Bodo Zehm retired after 36 years of archaeological activity and handed over the management of the Osnabrück city and district archeology to his long-time deputy, Axel Friederichs . Since then, Zehm has been committed to the preservation of megalithic tombs and is managing director of the European cultural route project "Megalithic Routes", a project similar to the German megalithic route .

Writings and contributions (selection)

  • with Michael Haverkamp, ​​Wolfgang Schlüter: Cholera in Osnabrück. On the problem of urban services of general interest in the industrial age. Rasch, Bramsche 1995, ISBN 3-930595-26-5 .
  • Of treasures and broken pieces. Archaeological sites in Bramsche (= Bramscher Schriften. 1). Rasch, Bramsche 1997, ISBN 3-932147-11-1 .
  • Between animation and research. In: Archeology in Lower Saxony . Vol. 5, 2002, pp. 123-126.
  • with Jan-Eggerik Delbanco: Holte and the Holter Castle (= Great Art Guide. 266). Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-2381-0 .
  • The Plaggenesch - an archaeological archive floor is named “Floor of the Year 2013”. In: Archeology in Lower Saxony. Vol. 16, 2013, pp. 154-159.
  • with Hermann Kuhl, Jörg Frenzel, Silke Grade, Dirk Manzke, Helma Pötter: Architecture Guide Osnabrück. DOM Publishers, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86922-278-3 .
  • with Judith Franzen: Discover magical places. German Federal Environment Foundation, Osnabrück 2016, ( online (PDF; 26.37 MB) ).
  • Street of the Megalithic Culture. Megalithic tombs as image carriers for archaeological tourism projects. In: Monument Preservation. Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony . Vol. 37, No. 2, 2017, pp. 121–123.

literature

  • New management of the city and district archeology Osnabrück in: Archeology in Lower Saxony , 2003, p. 147
  • Judith Franzen, Axel Friederichs: change of office. Axel Friederichs follows Bodo Zehm as city and district archaeologist in: Varus-Kurier No. 19, 2017, pp. 31–33 ( online , pdf)

Web links

Commons : Bodo Zehm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urban and district archeology celebrates its 40th birthday in NOZ on June 30, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Zehm, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Narrower