Hans-Wilhelm Heine

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Hans-Wilhelm Heine (born April 20, 1948 in Hanover ; † August 2, 2012 ) was a German medieval archaeologist who worked for the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation from 1977 to 2012 . His specialty was castle research .

Life

Hans-Wilhelm Heine was the son of a businessman in Hanover. After graduating from the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover in 1967 , he did his military service in Lüneburg . He studied classical archeology at the University of Freiburg and soon switched to prehistory and early history as well as ancient and middle history. After a summer semester at the University of Göttingen in 1971, under the influence of Herbert Jankuhn, he focused on medieval archeology . During his studies he took part in excavations at the fort near Isny , the Bronze Age settlement of Hitzacker , the medieval royal court of Neudingen Monastery , the Iron Age prince's grave Magdalenenberg and the Motte House Mark . In 1976 Heine presented his dissertation “Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance”. In 1976 and 1977 he was entrusted with the inventory of medieval archaeological monuments and sites in the northern Black Forest at the Karlsruhe branch office of the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office before completing the Rigorosum . At the end of 1977 he started a position in Hanover at the Department for Monument Preservation of the Lower Saxony State Administration Office . At this forerunner authority of the later Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation (NLD), Heine carried out excavations in the city centers of medieval cities, especially in Hameln, from 1978 to 1980 . Already at this time he specialized in high and late medieval castles and from 1981 was involved in excavations in the Lüningsburg , Isenburg and Lemförde castles . Later he was responsible for the castle research priority program at the NLD. In archaeological castle research in Lower Saxony, he promoted the use of geophysical and geochemical methods in prospecting , such as between 1988 and 1993 at the Posteburg and the Dammburg near Alt-Isenhagen . He coordinated projects special kind were around 2,010 airborne laser scanning detections of castles in the Weser Mountains , the Roman-Germanic battlefield at Harzhorn and the Roman camp Hedemünden . For the measurement of castle walls in Lower Saxony , Heine worked with institutions of surveying and cadastral systems, such as geographical university institutes. Hans-Wilhelm Heine of 1996 because of a vacancy the place of representation as the Head of Unit to 2001 Archeology in the NLD held and was at this time in Lower Saxony state archaeologist .

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Writings and contributions (selection)

  • Studies of weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . In: Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 5 . Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0178-3262 .
  • Early castles and palaces in Lower Saxony. From the beginning to the Middle Ages . Hildesheim 1995.
  • Castles around 1000 between the Middle Weser and Leine . Special publication on the occasion of the colloquium in Porta Westfalica from: Archeology in Ostwestfalen , Volume 4, ISBN 3-89534-289-0 , 1999. ( Online, PDF 514 kB )
  • The prehistoric and early historical castle walls in the Hanover administrative district . Hannover 2000, ISBN 3-7752-5645-8 .
  • The "Heidenwall" in Oldenburg. An archaeological contribution to the first mention of Oldenburg in 1108 (guide to the prehistory and early history of Lower Saxony; vol. 27). Isensee Verlag , Oldenburg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89995-537-8 .
  • Schaumburger Land - Burgenland , in the series Guide to the Prehistory and Early History of Lower Saxony (29), Oldenburg 2010, published by the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation and the Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony, ISBN 978-3-89995-673-3 .

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SURNAME Heine, Hans-Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medieval archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 2012