Danewerkmuseum

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The Danewerk Museum near Schleswig

The Danewerkmuseum ( Danish Danevirke Museum ) is located in the municipality of Dannewerk in the Schleswig-Flensburg district near the city of Schleswig on the main wall of the Danewerk .

The museum

The Danewerkmuseum documents the history of the wall from the Viking Age to the time of the German-Danish Wars . The museum was founded in 1990 in a former farmhouse (the Danevirkegården ≈ Danewerkhof ) directly at the intersection of Danewerk and Ochsenweg in the municipality of Dannewerk near Schleswig and was expanded in 2002. In addition to the exhibition on the Danewerk, there is also an exhibition on the history of the Danish people in southern Schleswig since 1864 under the title Dansk i Sydslesvig (≈ Danish in Southern Schleswig ) . The exhibitions are designed in two languages. The museum has around 20,000 visitors a year. It works together with the Viking Museum Haithabu and the state museums in Gottorf Castle .

Interior pictures

  • Danewerk Museum sept 2014e.jpg
  • Danewerk Museum sept 2014d.jpg
  • Danewerk Museum sept 2014b.jpg
  • Danewerk Museum sept 2014a.jpg

The archaeological park

In addition to the collections inside the house, there is the archaeological park in the outdoor area, where, among other things, the main wall with the Waldemars wall and one of the cannon entrenchments (Schanze 14) from the German-Danish War can be visited. The plateau of the former Thyraburg (Danish: Thyraborg ) is also within walking distance to the east of the museum . Between 2009 and 2014, several excavations by German and Danish archaeologists took place right next to the museum, during which, among other things, the passage of the Ochsenweg through the wall was discovered and assumptions were confirmed that some of the beginnings of the wall date back to the fifth century.

The Danewerk as a Danish border fortification consists of several earth walls, upstream ditches, ramparts and a lake barrier. It connected the Viking settlement of Haithabu on the Schlei with Hollingstedt on the Treene . The Osterwall near Eckernförde also sealed off the Schwansen peninsula . With the Wieglesdor on Ochsenweg, the Danewerk had a gate that was passable for traders and travelers.

Outdoor area

  • Waldemars Wall

  • The Danewerk

  • New excavations (Sept. 2014)

  • Hill 14

Web links

Commons : Danewerk Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sven Windmann: Archaeological sensation: Danewerk is older than expected. In: Schleswiger Nachrichten . Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag , September 27, 2013, accessed on February 11, 2014 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 29 ′ 0.3 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 54.9 ″  E