Guntram Schönfeld

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Guntram Schönfeld (* 1952 in Rengshausen ) is a German prehistoric scientist . He was a consultant in the department for wet soil archeology at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . Schönfeld led the first excavations in what is now the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Pestenacker .

Life

Schönfeld was born in Rengshausen in northern Hesse and studied Prehistory and Early History , Provincial Roman Archeology and Slavic Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He then received his doctorate in 1982 under Georg Kossack (1923-2004) with a work on the Middle Helladic tombs of Corinthia and West Attica . Schönfeld then worked for the Athens department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). In the excavation campaigns led by Klaus Kilian (1939–1992) in the ancient Greek city of Tiryns from 1982 to 1983, Schönfeld led the ceramics processing together with Christian Podzuweit and Gerhard Hiesel . Schönfeld's main focus was on painted Mycenaean ceramics.

The archaeologist has lived in the Landsberg am Lech district since 1988 and worked for the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) in Munich. Together with the archaeologist Erwin Keller (1937-2014) and the biologist Hansjörg Küster , he developed the research proposal to the German Research Foundation (DFG) in order to finance the first excavations in the ancient homeland as part of the DFG priority program "Settlement Archaeological Investigations in the Alpine Foreland" To secure the Pestenacker settlement chamber under the leadership of the BLfD.

In several excavation campaigns, Schönfeld led the investigations that began in 1988 in Pestenacker, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011 together with 110 other circumalpine sites. Textiles from this settlement are among the oldest finds of this type discovered in Bavaria, and with the help of the archaeologist Sibylle Bauer , who at that time set up the dendrochronological research laboratory of the State Monuments Office, an exact age could be determined. Schönfeld presented the initial descriptions of Pestenacker, which are still fundamental today. The Pestenacker find complex comprises a total of three consecutive settlement areas, each with several construction phases: Pestenacker-Nord (single-phase), Unfriedshausen (two-phase) and Pestenacker (four phases). For a larger audience, Schönfeld also illuminated the pile dwellings hidden in the Upper Bavarian lake landscape on the lake shores and islands.

As a scientific employee of the BLfD, Schönfeld was responsible for the wet soil archeology area. In addition to prehistoric projects, he also accompanies and leads investigations in post-Christian archaeological research, for example in 2002 in the wet soil investigations in the camp village of Fort Dambach . In 2016 Schönfeld retired. Anneli O'Neill then coordinated the processing of the Pestenacker project .

In his home district of Landsberg, Schönfeld was appointed by the district council to succeed the teacher Anton Huber (1934–2016) from 2009 to 2016 as a volunteer district curator for the soil monuments before he was replaced in this position by Bernd Steidl .

Schönfeld, now based in Kaufering , has published numerous articles on archaeological surveys and individual questions in various specialist journals. He also wrote articles for homeland and year books, for festschriften, lectures and exhibition catalogs. He also organizes public archaeological tours and bike tours.

Fonts (selection)

  • The ancient humid settlement of Pestenacker , a Neolithic branch settlement system in the valley floor of the Loosbach near Unfriedshausen . In: Reports of the Bayerische Bodendenkmalpflege 50, 2009, pp. 137–168.
  • Building and settlement structures of the Altheim cultural group. A comparison between wet soil and mineral soil settlements . In: Karl Schmotz (Hrsg.): Lectures of the 19th Lower Bavarian Archaeological Day. 2001, pp. 17-62.
  • A Neolithic village in the moor near Unfriedshausen . In: Landsberger Geschichtsblätter , 1995/1996, pp. 1–16.
  • The excavation in the early Neolithic valley floor settlement of Pestenacker, Ldkr.Landsberg am Lech, and its settlement archeological aspects . In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission 71, 1990 (1991), pp. 355-380.
  • Report on painted Mycenaean ceramics. Excavations in Tiryns 1982-83. The phases SH IIIA-Late to SH IIIB-Middle. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger , 1988, pp. 153–211.
  • Middle Helladic graves from Corinthia and West Attica. Studies on grave construction and chronology . Munich 1982 (= dissertation)

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Remarks

  1. ^ Wolfgang Czysz : Archeology in the carp pond. News from the Roman vicus of Dambach. In: Andreas Thiel : New research on the Limes . (= Contributions to the Limes World Heritage. Volume 3). Theiss, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2251-7 , pp. 175-176.
  2. ↑ Thomas Wunder: Back to the roots with joy . Augsburger Allgemeine, August 5, 2009 ; Finding ground workers . Kreisbote, August 5, 2009
  3. ↑ The new man for ground monuments. Bernd Steidl takes over the honorary position on September 1st . Augsburger Allgemeine, July 25, 2017 ; Gerald Modlinger: Archeology has fascinated him from childhood . Augsburger Allgemeine, August 28, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Schönfeld, Guntram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prehistorian and head of department at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Rengshausen