The Alemanni

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The Alamannen is the name of a major national exhibition that was held in 1997 and 1998 in three cities in Germany and Switzerland. The subject was the people of the Alemanni .

Exhibition concept

The occasion of the exhibition was the battle of Zülpich , 1500 years ago in 1996/97 , in which the Alemanni were defeated by the Franks and largely lost their independence and a significant part of their country. The first attempts at the exhibition were made in the mid-1970s. On September 21, 1976, the Council of Ministers of the State of Baden-Württemberg decided to finance an exhibition "Alemanni and Franks in Baden-Württemberg". But in 1977 the exhibition “ The time of the Hohenstaufen. History, Art, Culture ”and the year 1980 was considered. During this time, Siegfried Junghans , at the time director of the Württemberg State Museum , developed an initial exhibition concept. However, his retirement and other other exhibitions initially prevented the concept from being pursued. The idea was not taken up again until the early 1990s.

The exhibition covered a period of about 500 years, from the abandonment of the Upper Germanic and Rhaetian Limes by the Romans in the years between 260 and 270 to the year 746, when the Alemannic power was broken by the Franks. The exhibition presented the current state of research at the time. Outstanding, partly unique finds were presented. The exhibition name "The Alemanni " shows the archaeological character of the exhibition, since philologists and historians tend to use the Germanist name Alemanni . Nevertheless, the exhibition also makes use of the knowledge of linguistics and history. This is particularly evident in the extensive catalog manual, which has more than 500 pages and was published by Konrad Theiss Verlag in Stuttgart.

execution

The exhibition had more than 100 lenders, including the Limes Museum Aalen , the Roman Museum of the City of Augsburg , the Roman Museum Augst , the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Berlin, the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , the Moravian State Museum Brno , the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt, and the Electoral Palatinate Museum , the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology in London, the Prehistoric State Collection in Munich, the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg , the Württembergisches Landesmuseum in Stuttgart, the Mainfränkisches Museum in Würzburg, the Swiss National Museum in Zurich and several national monument offices. The main sponsors were SüdwestLB , the Würth Group and the Kulturstiftung der Länder .

The then Federal President Roman Herzog and his Swiss counterpart Arnold Koller took over the patronage of the exhibition . Both, along with the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg , Erwin Teufel and the State's Minister for Science, Research and Culture, Klaus von Trotha , contributed greetings to the catalog. The exhibition took place from June 14, 1997 to September 14, 1997 in the SüdwestLB Forum in Stuttgart , from October 24, 1997 to January 25, 1998 in the Swiss National Museum in Zurich and from May 6 to June 7, 1998 in the Roman Museum of the city of Augsburg instead of. Dieter Planck and Barbara Theune-Großkopf were in charge of overall management. Theune-Großkopf and Max Martin were also responsible for the conception. The scientific advisory board consisted of Heidi Amrein , Gerhard Fingerlin , Andreas Furger-Gunti , Christel Bücker , Dieter Geuenich , Jörg Heiligmann , Max Martin, Helga Schach-Dörges , Gustav Schöck , Heiko Steuer , Ingo Stork , Rotraut Wolf , Lothar Bakker and Ellen Riemer .

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