Monument Atlas of Lower Saxony

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The Lower Saxony Monument Atlas is an internet portal that presents cultural monuments from the preservation of architectural and art monuments as well as surface archaeological ground monuments in Lower Saxony . The monument Atlas, the listed structures on an interactive map with stored detailed information. In January 2020 the in went online publicly accessible information system in a beta version online , and will include more than 120,000 monuments for a gradual expansion in 2023. It was realized by the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation .

Presentation of the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas by the President of the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation Christina Krafczyk , 2020

Emergence

According to the Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act, which came into force in 1979, the tasks of the Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments include the registration and listing of cultural monuments in Lower Saxony. For this purpose, the authority creates a directory ( list of monuments ) and updates it, which has recently been done digitally. The creation of a digital monument atlas was agreed in the coalition agreement by the Lower Saxony SPD and the CDU in Lower Saxony after the Lower Saxony state election in 2017 with the wording "We will create a digital atlas for all monuments in Lower Saxony" . The project will be implemented in accordance with the digitalization master plan that the Lower Saxony state government decided on August 21, 2018. Funding of 6.5 million euros will be used to create the monument atlas. They come from a payment by Volkswagen of over one billion euros to the state of Lower Saxony in the diesel scandal . According to the digitalization master plan , citizens should have contemporary digital access to cultural offerings in Lower Saxony, including through a digital monument atlas. To implement this, the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation set up the cross- departmental inventory / digital atlas under the direction of the archaeologist Utz Böhner . The technical basis of the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas is operated by the GBV (VZG) network headquarters in Göttingen .

Content

The monument atlas makes the monument inventory in Lower Saxony publicly accessible in its entirety for the first time. The basis is an interactive monument map based on maps from the State Office for Geoinformation and Land Surveying Lower Saxony . Using search options, it is possible to search for locations, addresses and other features in an online database . A data sheet is issued with information on the object name and type, photos, names of the architects and artists involved, a brief description and the reason for the property of the monument. More detailed information is available as Linked Open Data through references to other portals and databases. These include the German National Library , the online encyclopedia Wikipedia , the database "EBIDAT" of the European Castle Institute and digital copies from the book series Architectural Monuments in Lower Saxony . In addition, the Monument Atlas provides lists of monuments in PDF format, which give an overview of the key data on the inventory of monuments.

In the first stage of expansion from the beginning of 2020, the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas contains the architectural monuments in Buxtehude , Wolfsburg , Nordhorn and Northeim as well as the archaeological monuments visible above ground in Celle , Cloppenburg , Gifhorn and Holzminden .

Of the archaeological soil monuments, only those visible above ground, such as large stone graves , are published online. Because of the risk of robbery excavations , the monuments hidden in the ground are not published.

Even if the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas is based on data from ADABweb , it must be distinguished from it. This database is a non-public information system of the state preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg and Lower Saxony. Authorized institutions for the preservation of historical monuments are provided with technical data.

particularities

The online offer of the Monument Atlas in the monument.themen area includes presentations on special topics of monument preservation in Lower Saxony, which are presented in explanatory essays as well as lists and maps. New topics are to be published every two weeks. Planned and partially implemented topics are:

Research projects from archeology and the project “Jewish Topography Lower Saxony” on sites of Jewish culture and history are still in the planning stage .

The denkmal.resourcen area presents digitized publications from the Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, such as workbooks on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , news from Lower Saxony's prehistory , Lower Saxony find history and research on prehistory from the Schöningen opencast mine .

Furthermore, the area contains the state office's scientific holdings, some of which are reproduced via the Lower Saxony cultural heritage partner platform . These include, for example, Conrad Wilhelm Hase's collection of plans , photographs of farmhouses in the 1940s in the counties of Hoya and Diepholz, and the virtual exhibition The Awakening of Modernity. Architecture before and after the First World War in Lower Saxony by the State Office from 2019.

use

The monument atlas is aimed particularly at interested citizens and offers owners, preservationists and building planners reliable information on how to deal with monuments. Two forms of use are possible:

  • Object data such as address, name, type and further information are publicly accessible. Use via a mobile app is in preparation .
  • A restricted area leads to ADABweb with more detailed property data for authorities and experts

See also

literature

  • Jan Lubitz: Project “Monument Atlas Lower Saxony” in: Reports on Monument Preservation in Lower Saxony 1/2020, pp. 54–55.
  • Hildegard Nelson, Utz Böhner: New staff in the archeology department as part of the Monument Atlas project in: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony 1/2020, pp. 56–57.

Web links

Commons : Monument Atlas Lower Saxony  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument protection plaque will in future bear Lower Saxony's coat of arms , press release from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture from December 22, 2017
  2. ↑ Christian Bohnenkamp: Lower Saxony's monuments go online in Neue Presse on January 7, 2019
  3. ↑ Patrick Tarkowski: 350 million for digitization - Lower Saxony invests VW penalty payment in digital-magazin.de from June 2, 2018
  4. ↑ Digitization in Culture: Opportunity and Challenge at the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture
  5. ^ Staff unit inventory / digital atlas at the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation
  6. ↑ Small question from the MPs Susanne Victoria Schütz, Björn Försterling and Sylvia Bruns (FDP) with the answer from the state government of December 2, 2019, printed matter 18/5246