Jens Berthold

Jens Berthold during a prospecting, 2014

Jens Berthold (born July 13, 1969 in Wuppertal - Barmen ) is a German medieval archaeologist . From 2009 to 2019 he was the municipal archaeologist of the Schaumburg landscape in Bückeburg and has since headed the Overath branch of the LVR office for soil conservation in the Rhineland .

Career

At a lecture in Nienburg, 2013

After starting school in 1976, Jens Berthold attended elementary school in Wuppertal and, until 1981, high school. At the Albert Einstein High School in Kaarst , he passed his Abitur in 1989. In the same year he began studying prehistory , classical archeology and Egyptology at the University of Cologne ; In 1993 the minor subjects Scandinavian Studies and Ethnology were added. His studies were interrupted in 1990 and 1991 by community service , which he performed at the Rhenish Office for Land Monument Preservation in the lignite branch in Hambach .

In 1993 and 1994 he went to Denmark to study, where he studied prehistoric archeology, Eskimology and Nordic philology at the University of Copenhagen .

In 1994 Berthold continued his studies with prehistory and early history at the University of Bonn . There he submitted a master's thesis in 1997 on ground-level post structures from the Middle Ages from the settlement excavations in the Rhenish lignite mining area and then worked as an archaeologist for an excavation company in Cologne's Heumarkt . In 1998 he took up a doctoral degree at the University of Bonn. In this context, he was also a research assistant on a project on the Elsbach valley in the Rhine brown area near Grevenbroich . He received his doctorate in 2003 with a dissertation on the Elsbach Valley during the Middle Ages and the early modern period . From 2002 to 2009 Berthold worked as a scientific volunteer and scientific consultant at the Archaeological Park Xanten as well as in the excavation management of the investigations at Kurt-Hackenberg- Platz at the underground archeology department in Cologne .

Berthold's research interests include cultural landscape and settlement archeology, mill archeology and handicrafts .

Communal archeology

In mid-2009, a new municipal archeology for six regional authorities in Lower Saxony was founded in the Schaumburg landscape in Bückeburg . She works for the Lower Monument Protection Authority for the preservation of monuments in the districts of Nienburg and Schaumburg as well as in the cities of Bückeburg, Hameln , Nienburg / Weser and Stadthagen . Jens Berthold was appointed as the only permanent archaeologist, initially as a 70% position. His work area extended along the Weser over 100 km in length and up to 30 km in width. He looks after around 5300 archaeological sites on around 2000 km². He was supported in the field by five volunteer officers for archeology.

The main focus of his communal archaeological work was investigations at Wölpe Castle , Heisterburg , Schinna Monastery , Hohnhorst urn grave field , Rehburg Castle and Hus Aren Castle Stables . He often involved volunteers from the respective region in the projects. From 2012 to 2019, Berthold organized annual meetings for professional exchange for volunteer archaeologists and those interested in archaeological research in his area of responsibility.

Memberships

Archaeological Commission for Lower Saxony
German Society for Prehistory and Early History
German Society for Milling Knowledge and Mill Preservation
German Society for Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times
Historical working group for Schaumburg
Excavation e. V. - Association for excavation technology, archeology, soil conservation and neighboring areas

Writings and contributions (selection)

The Elsbachtal in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Archeology of a cultural landscape. Bonn 2003, (Bonn, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, dissertation, 2003; digitized 2003 ; printed: The Elsbachtal in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period. Archeology of a cultural landscape (= Rhenish excavations . 74). With contributions by Guntram Gassmann, Arie J. Kalis, Hans-Peter Krull, Jutta Meurers-Balke , Joachim Schiermeyer, Ursula Tegtmeier and Ünsal Yalçin. Von Zabern, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-8053-5134-8 ).
A high medieval watermill in Elfgen. Findings, finds, reconstruction. With a contribution by Jutta Meurers-Balke and Silke Schamuhn. In: Bonner Jahrbücher . 208, 2008, pp. 173-236.
Noble stones, noble findings - a high medieval rock crystal workshop in Cologne. In: Walter Melzer (Ed.): Archeology and medieval craft. A position assessment. Contributions to the 10th colloquium of the working group on archaeological research into medieval handicrafts (= Soest contributions to archeology. 9). Mocker & Jahn, Soest 2008, ISBN 978-3-87902-308-0 , pp. 267-283, ( Online , pdf, 34.97 MB).
Archeology between Hameln and Hoya. The new communal archeology of the Schaumburg landscape. In: News from Lower Saxony's prehistory . 80, 2011, pp. 3-13.
with Stefan Brüdermann : Shards that brought no luck. Results of the archaeological excavation in Langen Strasse 4 and 5, Viehmannsches and Kammansches Haus, in Bückeburg in 2012. Exhibition at Museum Bückeburg 2013. Museum Bückeburg, Bückeburg 2013.
with Klaus Gerken: Archaeological excavations in the “Führse Gardens”. A new development area with (pre) history. The investigations in 2014 in Holtorf (= writings of the municipal archeology Schaumburger Landschaft. 1, ZDB -ID 2858196-9 ). Municipal archeology of the Schaumburg landscape, Bückeburg 2015.

Rural house construction in the Middle Ages in the Rhineland. The ground-level post structures from the settlement excavations in the lignite mining area (= Bonn contributions to prehistoric and early historical archeology. 17). Prehistoric and early historical archeology - Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-936490-17-6 .

with Erich Block, Kristina Nowak-Klimscha, Tobias Scholz and Frank Wedekind: Burg Wölpe. The archaeological investigations on the castle hill in Erichshagen-Wölpe between 2011 and 2015 (= writings of the municipal archeology of the Schaumburg landscape. 2). Municipal archeology of the Schaumburg landscape, Bückeburg 2016.

with Margarete Sturm-Heumann and Freia Tröger: posts, tiles, silver men. The 2014 excavations at Klosterstrasse 9 and the latest on archeology in Stadthagen (= writings from the municipal archeology of the Schaumburg landscape. 4). Municipal archeology of the Schaumburg landscape, Bückeburg 2016.

Basics of archaeomolinology. Aspects of archaeological mill lore. In: Communications of the German Society for Archeology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times. 29, 2016, ISSN 1619-1439 , pp. 113–124, ( Online , pdf, 11.8 MB).

Reborgh - Reheburgk - Rehburg. Archeology and early history (= writings of communal archeology in the Schaumburg landscape. 5). Municipal archeology Schaumburger Landschaft, Bückeburg, 2018.

literature

Ronald Reimann: Local archaeologist Dr. Jens Berthold is leaving the Schaumburg landscape after 10 years in: FAN-POST 2020 of the Friends of Archeology in Lower Saxony , pp. 49–51 ( online )