German Limes Commission

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The German Limes Commission ( DLK ) is a coordination body for the UNESCO World Heritage Upper German-Raetian Limes .

Emergence

Prior to the registration of the Upper German-Rhaetian Limes World Heritage UNESCO was a coordination of the states required by the operation to be portion of the Roman Limes runs. Due to the cultural sovereignty of the federal states , they prepare the documents for such a registration. The federal government , as responsible for foreign affairs , then formally registers such an application with UNESCO.

The four federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate , Hesse , Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria , cooperating with regard to the application for a World Heritage Site of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes , initially formed an informal working group made up of representatives from the responsible ministries and the state offices for monument preservation .

founding

When it became increasingly clear that the project was not over with the compilation of the registration documents, and that there was a considerable need for coordination even after an entry in the list of World Heritage, the informal working group was established as the German Limes Commission in 2003 through an administrative agreement between the federal states . in order to maintain the uniform line towards UNESCO and to develop transnational concepts for the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes.

The name was chosen based on the former Imperial Limes Commission . The administrative agreement regulates the statutes of the commission and determines their financing, which is carried out by the federal states involved in proportion to the length of the Roman Limes in the respective federal state. The German Limes Commission has given itself rules of procedure.

The founding members were represented by Andreas Thiel , Ulrich Pfeifle, Sebastian Sommer , Reinhard Dietrich, Andreas Baur, Anton Neugebauer, Egon Schallmayer , Rudolf Herrmann, Bernd Steidl, Hans-Helmut Wegner , Hans Ulrich Nuber , Dieter Planck and Siegmar von Schnurbein .

extension

With regard to the registration of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, for which only the route between the Rhine and Danube was intended, initially only the four federal states mentioned above participated in the German Limes Commission. After it became increasingly clear that coordinating the activities along the entire Limes running through Germany was sensible, North Rhine-Westphalia participated in the German Limes Commission, initially with guest status and since 2006 as a full member.

organization

The commission consists of 14 members, one representative each from the responsible state ministry, the monument authority and four institutions that deal with the Limes. These are in detail:

The commission usually meets twice a year. Dieter Planck , President of the State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg, was its chairman until 2009 . Sebastian Sommer has been his successor since 2009. The commission has a manager who has his seat in the office of the commission in Kastell Saalburg .

tasks

The Limes Commission aims to ensure internationally accepted standards in the care, management and placement of Germany's most extensive and best-known cultural monument . She is the technical contact for all questions relating to the Limes in Germany as a whole. Since the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes is part of a transnational world heritage together with Hadrian's Wall and Antonine Wall in Great Britain , Germany and Great Britain have founded the Intergovernmental Committee , which coordinates the world heritage across borders and also processes requests from UNESCO that affect the world heritage as a whole. Representatives of the responsible ministerial administrations and the heritage authorities are represented on the Intergovernmental Committee .

Since the spring of 2007, the German Limes Commission has published a twice-yearly bulletin entitled Der Limes . It includes current research, exhibitions on the Limes theme and book tips. The Limes Commission organizes specialist colloquia on the Limes, most recently in March 2011 in Mainz , in September 2013 in Aalen and 2017 in Wiesbaden, in which almost one hundred scientists took part. The German Limes Commission is also the publisher of the scientific publication series, the reports on the Limes World Heritage Site . In 2010, two grants were awarded for the first time for the processing of old excavations on the Limes, which was expanded by two extraordinary grants. The German Limes Commission, together with the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, organized the 2015 International Limes Congress in Ingolstadt , one of the world's most important archeology congresses.

Publications

  • Since spring 2007 publication of a twice-yearly magazine "Der Limes", with reports on current research on the Limes as well as exhibitions.
  • Scientific series "Reports on the Limes World Heritage Site" (with reports on archaeological conferences and Limes Colloquia)

literature

  • German Limes Commission . In: Monument Protection Information 01/2007
  • S. Matešić, The German Limes Commission and the Upper German-Raetian Limes World Heritage . In: Sonius 19, 2016, 5-7

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