Heinz-Dieter Freese

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Heinz-Dieter Freese giving a lecture on the Roman marching camp of Wilkenburg , 2016

Heinz-Dieter Freese (born December 22, 1957 in Verden ) is a German pastor and aerial photograph archaeologist .

Life

Heinz-Dieter Freese passed the Abitur at the Domgymnasium Verden and studied in Tübingen and Göttingen . He completed his vicariate in Bad Essen and Loccum . The ordination took place in Altgarbsen . Afterwards he was a pastor on the island of Juist for a short time . This was followed by eleven years in Nienburg / Weser and another 11 years in Neudorf-Platendorf . In 2015 Freese took up a pastor's position in Martfeld as his successor . In 2018 he took early retirement and moved to his hometown Verden. He and his wife have two sons.

Engagement in the preservation of monuments

In 1973, Heinz-Dieter Freese came into contact with archeology for the first time when, after Hurricane Quimburga, he and a group of schoolchildren did clearing work in forests near Verden and documented damage to grave mounds disturbed by windthrow . He later took part in various excavations , such as the Rullstorf settlement chamber , and took part in the archaeological survey of the state in the Soltau area by registering soil monuments on behalf of the Lüneburg district government .

In the 1980s, Freese evaluated aerial photographs in a three-month project in the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation . This led to his work as a volunteer aerial photograph archaeologist, which he has been doing since 1994. After the aerial archaeologist Otto Braasch had delivered an aerial archaeological "basic supply" for the state of Lower Saxony in the 1990s, Freese has continued the aerial survey on a large scale ever since.

Between 1991 and 2002 Freese was volunteer for the archaeological preservation of monuments in the municipality of Landesbergen / Mittelweser. There he built an archaeological working group that carried out smaller excavations.

In 1998, Heinz-Dieter Freese was a founding member of the Association of Friends of Archeology in Lower Saxony (FAN). For 10 years he was a member of the board of the association, which is one of the most important archeology associations in Lower Saxony. Since 1998, Freese has headed the aerial photography working group at FAN, which conducts non-invasive exploration of archaeological monuments through flight prospecting . This is done in coordination with the Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as well as other agencies of the Lower Saxony preservation of monuments. During the flights by volunteer pilots, hundreds of new sites have been discovered so far. In this way, numerous archaeological findings became known on the route of the NEL pipeline , which runs 220 km through Lower Saxony, even before construction began in 2011 . During a flight in 2015, Heinz-Dieter Freese discovered a prehistoric long house 28 meters long in a field near his place of residence Martfeld based on vegetation marks .

Freese's most significant aerial archaeological discoveries include the Müsleringen earthworks in 2008 and the identification of the Roman marcher from Wilkenburg in 2014. During a flight in 2018, he discovered the Wellie earthworks as a five-hectare facility from the 4th millennium BC. It was characterized by vegetation features due to the extreme drought of 2018 in a wheat field.

Heinz-Dieter Freese also works as an amateur archaeologist on the ground, among other things to check his observations from the air. In 2006 he discovered a burial urn in the form of a Roman situla using a metal probe on a Germanic grave field of the 2nd century near Sasendorf with the bronze bucket from Sasendorf . In addition to corpse burn, it contained a gold finger ring and robe pins made of bronze and silver.

In 2014, the German National Committee for Monument Protection awarded Heinz-Dieter Freese with the Silver Hemisphere as the “German Prize for Monument Protection”. Since 2020 he has been a volunteer officer for the archaeological preservation of monuments in the Thedinghausen community .

Publications

  • With Detlef Schünemann, Jörg Pöhl, Joachim Schumann: An older Bronze Age house of the dead near Baden, city of Achim, Kr. Verden. in: News from Lower Saxony's Prehistory Volume 44, Hildesheim 1975, pp. 341–344.
  • New settlement finds to the left of the Weser in the Verden district . in: News from Lower Saxony's Prehistory Volume 46, Hildesheim 1977, pp. 333–351.
  • Iron Age barrows near Heidkrug, district Holtum (Geest); Kirchlinteln municipality, Kr. Verden. in: News from Lower Saxony's Prehistory Volume 47, Hildesheim 1977, pp. 297-300.
  • A cemetery from the Younger Bronze Age in the Holtebüttel district, Langwedel municipality, Kr. Verden. in: News from Lower Saxony's Prehistory Volume 48, Hildesheim 1979, pp. 199-200.
  • Settlement ceramics from the Harpstedter style from Verden, Lkr. Verden. in: News from Lower Saxony's Prehistory Volume 48, Hildesheim 1979, pp. 211–224.
  • With Klaus Grote : The rock protection roofs (Abris) in the mountains of southern Lower Saxony - your archaeological finds and findings. in: News from Lower Saxony's Prehistory Volume 51, Hildesheim 1982, pp. 17–70.
  • News from the Angrivarian Wall. In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony 3/1997, pp. 138–141.
  • The role of the volunteer in the planning process. in: Die Kunde NF 51, 2000, pp. 233-236.
  • The dog is buried there! (Probe walkers, metal detectors) in: Die Kunde NF 55, 2004, pp. 85–91.
  • Hobby flying as a flight path into archeology. in: Die Kunde NF 61, 2010, pp. 159–160.
  • Google's Earth and Newton's Rings. in: Die Kunde NF 61, 2010, pp. 155–158.
  • A Neolithic earthwork on the Weser near Stolzenau in the district of Nienburg (Weser) In: News from Lower Saxony's Prehistory Volume 79, 2010, pp. 3–9.
  • Like a textbook: positive growth marks. In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony 1/2011. Pp. 33-34.
  • The surface finds of the site Sasendorf 19 (Ldkr.Uelzen), a mixed-use cemetery of the older Roman Empire of the Darzau type in: Die Kunde NF65, 2014 (2016)
  • With Gerd Lübbers: A bronze bucket (situla) with cremation from the earlier Roman Empire from Sasendorf (district of Uelzen) in: Die Kunde NF65, 2014 (2016)
  • News about aerial photography in Lower Saxony. In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony 4/2016, pp. 202–203.
  • “This is a house floor plan!” In: Die Kunde NF 68, 2017, pp. 109–111.

Web links

Commons : Heinz-Dieter Freese  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bärbel Rädisch: Goodbye, Pastor Freese in Syker Kurier of June 23, 2018
  2. ↑ Mareike Hahn: Bye, Pastor Freese! in: Kreiszeitung from June 24, 2018
  3. ↑ Aerial archaeologist discovers historical nave in: Kreiszeitung dated December 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ Excavations in Müsleringen, Gem. Stolzenau, LK Nienburg (2009 - 2013) ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. at: Circle of Friends for Archeology in Lower Saxony  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fan-niedersachsen.de
  5. ↑ Heinz-Dieter Freese discovered the Roman camp south of Hanover. The legionaries did not expect Martfeld's pastor in: Kreiszeitung from November 4, 2015.
  6. ↑ Annika Büsching: Wellier Acker hides historical treasure in Die Rarke from November 6, 2018
  7. ↑ Special archaeological exhibition “Everything in a Bucket” from 12.9. - 11.10.2015 at: Circle of Friends for Archeology in Lower Saxony
  8. ↑ Gerald Weßel: The treasure in the potato field in Weser-Kurier from March 5, 2019
  9. ↑ German Prize for Monument Protection. “Silver hemisphere” to FAN member Heinz-Dieter Freese. ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. In: Circle of Friends for Archeology in Lower Saxony (ed.): FAN-Post 2015, p. 5 (PDF).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fan-niedersachsen.de
  10. ^ Looking for sites in Weser Kurier from August 16, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Freese, Heinz-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and aerial photography archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Verden