Federseemuseum
The Federseemuseum is an archaeological open-air museum not far from the Federsee near Bad Buchau in the Biberach district in Baden-Württemberg .
Federsee
The Federsee is a moorland in Upper Swabia , one of the richest archaeological finds in Europe. Hunting camps , pile dwellings and moor settlements from prehistoric times have been preserved in the moor . For example, about two kilometers southeast of today's city is the so-called Wasserburg Buchau , a late Bronze Age wetland settlement .
museum
The Federseemuseum in its current form has three focal points. In addition to the museum exhibition, the museum offers an archaeological open-air area with 12 reconstructed Stone and Bronze Age houses. There are many activities on offer where you can get to know life in prehistoric times up close. The archaeological nature trail rounds off this offer. The museum also offers museum educational offers (e.g. projects for school classes, children's workshops, ArchäoTheater and trips with a dugout canoe on the museum pond) as well as various special exhibitions.
exhibition
One of the museum's outstanding exhibits is a wooden wagon wheel from 2897 BC. It has a diameter of 56 cm, is made of maple wood and is "one of the few surviving, world's oldest bicycle finds".
building
The museum building, which opened in 1968, was built according to plans by the renowned museum architect Manfred Lehmbruck (1913–1992). An extensive renovation took place in 2013/2014.
Outdoor area
The outdoor area consists of reconstructions of several prehistoric houses and huts. Local craftsmen and archaeologists built them between 1998 and April 2000 with the help of archaeological findings from bog settlements and pile dwellings in the Federsee area. For this, materials of the time (wood, clay, reed and straw) were used in the usual construction method. The pile dwellings are among the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps that were included in the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2011 .
Archaeological educational trail
The archaeological nature trail leads over eleven stations to the moor settlements in southern Ried. The stations with information boards not only provide information about the buildings and palisades , but also interesting facts about the Federsee nature reserve and its changes in flora and fauna since the Bronze Age.
literature
- Ralf Baumeister: In the focus of settlement archaeological research. The Federseemuseum - insights into research into pile dwellings for 100 years. Newsletter of the preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg, year 2019, issue 4, pp. 255-261 (PDF; 0.7 MB)
- Ralf Baumeister, Karlheinz Steppan: From prey to companion: The archeology of the horse . Association for antiquity and home care with the Federseemuseum eV (ed.). Bad Buchau, 2005
- Erwin Keefer: Reindeer hunters and pile farmers - 14,000 years of life at the Federsee , Theiss-Verlag Stuttgart, 1996. ISBN 3-8062-1242-2
- Adolf Rieth: Guide through the Federseemuseum. Branch of the Stuttgart State Museums . Self-published. Altertumsverein Bad Buchau (ed.). Bad Buchau, 1969
- Susanne Wiermann: Archeology is exciting. Endless (original) stories from the Federsee . Federseemuseum Bas Buchau, Association for Archeology and Home Care eV (Ed.). Bad Buchau, 2004
- Experience prehistory. Guide to the Federseemuseum with archaeological open-air area and a moor nature trail . City of Bad Buchau (ed.). Bad Buchau, 2002
Web links
- Literature of the Federseemuseum in the catalog of the German National Library
- Federseemuseum website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stone Age wheels discovered in Bad Schussenrieder Moor. (No longer available online.) In: Archeology Online. archaeomedia, September 8, 2009, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved June 26, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 11.7 " N , 9 ° 36 ′ 39.7" E