Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum

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The Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) is the authority responsible for overarching monument preservation tasks in the state of Brandenburg . It is subordinate to the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture as a higher monument authority. The head office is in Zossen , Wünsdorf district , with branches in Cottbus and Calau and the State Archaeological Museum in Brandenburg an der Havel .

history

Preservation of monuments in Brandenburg

The beginnings of monument preservation in Brandenburg go back over 200 years. In 1815 the Prussian Province of Brandenburg was formed. At the same time, the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel , who worked for the highest building authority in Prussia, demanded in a memorandum, among other things, the establishment of authorities for the “preservation of all monuments and antiquities of our country” and the creation of a list of monuments. The appointment of the architect Ferdinand von Quast as the first Prussian state curator in 1843 and the first printed inventory of architectural and art monuments in the Province of Brandenburg from 1885 are further important milestones for the institutionalization of monument preservation in Prussia. In 1891 the establishment of the “Provincial Commission for the Study and Conservation of Monuments in the Province” led to the creation of the office of Provincial Curator. The architect Karl Gustav Bluth was appointed the first provincial curator of the province of Brandenburg in 1892.

The Prussian Excavation Act of 1914, which provided for excavations to be subject to approval and findings to be taxed, formed the basis for the protection of soil monuments. However, due to the First World War , the law did not come into force until 1920. For the protection of the archaeological monuments, a “state steward for the cultural and historical soil antiquities” was appointed for each province, who essentially performed the tasks of today's state archaeologist. In 1922, the prehistorian Alfred Götze was appointed the first shop steward in the province of Brandenburg . In 1939, Brandenburg received its first independent State Archaeological Office: the newly founded Brandenburg State Office for Prehistory and Early History focused on research, public education and the establishment of an archaeological finds.

Despite many bills, Prussia never passed a comprehensive and generally applicable monument protection law. After the Second World War , the existing monument protection regulations of the federal states remained in place for the time being. The administrative reform of 1952 resulted in the dissolution of the states and thus the integration of the state offices for monument preservation located in the GDR into the newly created Institute for the preservation of monuments of the GDR. The monument in the GDR was henceforth organized centrally, but this affected only the architectural conservation. The tasks relating to the preservation of monuments were entrusted to the Museum of Prehistory in Potsdam, which was founded in 1953. The ordinance published in 1954 for the protection and preservation of the prehistoric and early historical soil antiquities finally replaced the Prussian excavation law of 1914.

The protection of architectural and art monuments was regulated by the GDR's Monument Preservation Act from 1975. Its binding force only ended in 1991 with the passage of the new Brandenburg Monument Protection Act . The specialist authorities created in this context, the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the Brandenburg State Museum for Prehistory and Early History, merged in 1999 to form the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM). The headquarters in the Zossen district of Wünsdorf is located in a building complex from 1934/35, which once served as a barracks and crew building and is now a listed building.

Provincial and State Conservators

Shop stewards for cultural and historical soil antiquities and state archaeologists

Directors

tasks

The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeological State Museum is responsible for both the preservation of historical monuments and the preservation of archaeological monuments . The Brandenburg Monument Protection Act , which came into force in 1991 and was amended in 2004, forms the basis for the work of the State Office. In addition to the systematic recording, scientific research and the preservation of soil monuments , architectural monuments , garden monuments and industrial monuments, the focus is on professional advice and information for monument owners, institutions and the public. The monument inventory of the state of Brandenburg has been recorded in the publicly accessible list of monuments since 2004 and is continuously updated. Extensive specialist collections are z. B. in the state fund magazine , in the measurement image archive or in the plan collection for research and exhibition purposes, processed and made available. In addition, the State Office, in cooperation with the Archaeological Society in Berlin and Brandenburg, organizes courses for the training of voluntary soil conservationists.

organization

The state office is divided into the departments of archeology, building and monument preservation, and central services. The public relations and editing department reports directly to the management of the authorities.

The Archeology Department consists of the Archaeological Preservation and State Archaeological Museum departments. The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation is the sponsor of the Brandenburg State Archaeological Museum .

The Department of Building and Art Monument Preservation consists of the Practical Monument Preservation Department and the Inventory and Documentation Department .

The Central Services department manages the agency internally.

Publications

The State Office issues several subject-specific series as well as individual publications (selection):

Building and art monument maintenance

  • Brandenburg Monument Preservation, has been published every six months since 1992
  • Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Brandenburg, so far 14 volumes (as of 2020)
  • Workbooks, so far 56 volumes (as of 2020)
  • Working materials, so far 3 volumes (as of 2020)
  • Research and contributions, so far 17 volumes (as of 2020)

archeology

  • Research on archeology in the state of Brandenburg, so far 21 volumes (as of 2020)
  • Publications of the Brandenburg State Archeology, so far 48 volumes (as of 2020)
  • Working reports on Brandenburg State Archeology
  • Archeology in Berlin and Brandenburg, published annually since 1995 (retrospectively to 1990)
  • Materials on archeology in Brandenburg, so far 34 volumes (as of 2020)

Events and promotions

In addition to organizing meetings, conferences and trade fairs aimed at a specialist audience, the State Office organizes various event formats for the interested public, e.g. For example, the Brandenburg Heritage Day, which has been held annually since 1993, and the series of events “Local Talks” (in cooperation with the Brandenburg Chamber of Architects, the Brandenburg Chamber of Engineers and the Association of Consulting Engineers Berlin-Brandenburg). Together with the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and the Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg eV, the State Office organizes the fundraising campaign “Forgotten works of art need help” for sacred art in Brandenburg churches.

See also

literature

  • Preservation of monuments in the state of Brandenburg 1990-2000. Report of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum , 2 volumes, Wernersche Verlagsanstalt, Worms 2001, ISBN 3-88462-174-2 .
  • Andreas Meinecke: Prussian preservation of monuments in the empire. The Province of Brandenburg and Berlin 1860-1918 , Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7861-2807-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Friedrich Schinkel: "Preservation of all monuments and antiquities of our country". 08/17/1815. Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
  2. ^ Sieglind Kramer: The development of the soil monument preservation in Brandenburg, in: Publications of the Museum for Pre- and Early History Potsdam, Vol. 1, 1965, pp. 5-15.