Celtic village Mitterkirchen
 Celtic village Mitterkirchen |
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| place | Mitterkirchen in Machland |
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open air museum
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| architect | Manfred Pertlwieser |
| opening | 1991 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 20,000 |
| operator |
Market town of Mitterkirchen in Machland
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The outdoor museum Keltendorf Mitterskirchen is one of several in Europe established Celts villages , the reconstruction of a Celtic settlement from the Hallstattzeit (800-450 BC) represents.
The Celtic village is located in the village of Lehen in the municipality of Mitterkirchen im Machland in the Perg district in Upper Austria , where significant historical finds , including a wagon grave , were made and archaeological excavations were carried out between 1980 and 1990 .
The museum was destroyed by the Danube flood in 2002 and then rebuilt. It is located directly on the Danube Cycle Path and the Donausteig . An average of 20,000 visitors are recorded every year.
description
The decision to build an open-air museum was made by the Mitterkirchen municipal council on December 15, 1988, and local planner Helga Lassy was entrusted with the implementation. In addition to the infrastructure such as the access road and parking spaces, an accessible barrow was initially reconstructed to illustrate the Celtic burial ritual , equipped with a replica of the Mitterkirchen float , and a first Hallstatt-era homestead was built according to detailed plans by the archaeologist Manfred Pertlwieser , who was also responsible for the overall concept.
The Celtic village was reconstructed down to the last detail, exactly as it was originally created. The employment of people of Romanian origin who had worked under relatively simple conditions in their previous homeland turned out to be a stroke of luck. As 2700 years ago, no screws, nails or other technical aids were allowed to be used. The houses were built with selected old hand-chopped wood, for which twenty old wooden stalls were bought from the area. All tables and benches were also made according to ancient craftsmanship. All wooden connections were made by mortising and hand-chopped wooden dowels . The reeds for the roofs were bought in Burgenland, the straw was harvested by farmers in Liebenau and processed into decking and processed by craftsmen who still mastered the technique of thatch.
After the partial opening in 1991, further objects were built in the following years, so that 20 buildings can now be visited. The ancient handicraft technique of the ancestors can be understood by the visitors in various workshops. A novelty in the museum business were the offered workshops, which were highly accepted by the visitors.
With the Medionemeton project, the municipality of Mitterkirchen applied as a location for the Upper Austrian State Exhibition 2020, but was rejected. The description of the project developed by Raimund Karl ( University of Wales , Bangor ) has been published.
Exhibition of the finds
During the excavations in the village of Lehen in Mitterkirchen im Machland between 1980 and 1990, a Hallstatt-era burial ground with fifty barrows and eighty burials including rich grave goods, including 900 vessels, was uncovered.
Two exhibitions of the Upper Austrian Provincial Museum took place in the Linz Castle Museum and in 1987 some of the finds were shown at Europalia in Belgium. Since then, finds from Mitterkirchen have usually only been exhibited in the Castle Museum in Linz .
Under the title Precious things from graves - life and death in the Hallstatt period Mitterkirchen existed from May to October 2010 as part of the cross-border special exhibition Danube. Fluch & Segen the opportunity to visit some of the exhibits from the excavations in the Celtic village of Mitterkirchen.
literature
- Bronze hollow ring from the Hallstatt period found. In: Mühlviertel news. 1980.
- Manfred Pertlwieser : float and barrow. Early Iron Age culture from Hallstatt to Mitterkirchen. (= Catalogs of the Upper Austrian State Museum. NF 13). Linz 1987, ISBN 3-900746-05-2 .
- Manfred Pertlwieser: The Hallstatt- era barrows of Mitterkirchen. Excavation results from 1981–1990. In: Report on the 18th Historians' Day in Linz. (= Publications of the Association of Austrian History Societies. 27). Vienna 1991, pp. 29-31.
- Jutta Leskovar : Three wagon graves in the Hallstatt burial ground in Mitterkirchen. Upper Austria. - Diploma thesis University of Vienna 1998.
- Museum of the month August: Open-air museum Keltendorf Mitterkirchen. In: Upper Austria. Community newspaper. 2003, F. 9, p. 257.
- Franz Asanger: open-air museum. In: Mitterkirchen - A historical portrait of the Machland community. Marktgemeinde Mitterkirchen im Machland (Ed.), Linz 1999, p. 407ff.
- Josef Riesenberger: Mitterkirchen, Hallstatt period open-air museum. In: Our home, the district of Perg. Association for the publication of a district home book Perg - communities of the district of Perg (publisher), Linz 1995, p. 263ff.
Web links
- Keltendorf Mitterkirchen - youtube video of an interview with the mayor of Mitterkirchen from Live TV
- Homepage Celtic village Mitterkirchen
- Homepage Celtic village Mitterkirchen, floats and barrows
Individual evidence
- ↑ Test report 2009 of the state of Upper Austria, p. 24. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 134 kB)
- ^ Franz Asanger: Mitterkirchen - A historical portrait of the Machland community. Marktgemeinde Mitterkirchen im Machland (Ed.), Linz 1999, p. 407
- ↑ Christa and Michael Mössmer: Living history. (PDF; 6.8 MB) In the Upper Austrian town of Mitterkirchen, a Celtic village has arisen in painstaking detail work over the course of 15 years, which was built exclusively according to 2,700 years of craftsmanship, In: Austria Journal. No. 33, June 1, 2005, p. 47ff.
- ^ Creation of the open-air museum Keltendorf Mitterkirchen
- ↑ Medionemeton ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2010 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.
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 45 " N , 14 ° 43 ′ 37" E