Lothar Klappauf

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Lothar Klappauf ago backfilled ravine at Rammelsberg , 2013

Lothar Klappauf (* 1953 in Singen ) is a German archaeologist who mainly with the mining archeology of the resin in Lower Saxony is concerned.

Career

After completing his studies in prehistory and early history as well as provincial Roman archeology at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg , Lothar Klappauf received his doctorate in 1980 on the Carolingian royal court in Rottweil . He then began his professional career in 1981 at the Institute for Monument Preservation in Hanover as a forerunner of the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation . There, Klappauf became the cross-sectional representative for urban core and desert research . In this context he carried out urban archaeological studies in the city centers of Goslar, Hanover and Lüneburg.

From the mid-1980s, Lothar Klappauf and excavation technician Friedrich-Albert Linke investigated mining relics as well as smelting and melting sites in the Harz Mountains. As a result of this research activity, the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation (NLD), with the support of the Volkswagen Foundation, launched a priority program on the mining archeology of the Harz Mountains in 1992, which Klappauf led. The Mining Archeology Unit in the Harz Mountains, created by the NLD on the site of the former Rammelsberg mine in Goslar, has developed into an internationally networked center for interdisciplinary mining archeology.

During his 30 years as a mining archaeologist, Lothar Klappauf and his team recorded over 3500 new sites and carried out around 60  excavations . He initiated archaeometric investigations into the metal origin of numerous sacred sculptures made of lead, bronze and silver in Europe. His research, which he undertook in cooperation with over 20 university institutes and non-university research institutions throughout Europe, led to a new image of the Harz Mountains as a European source of raw materials.

On January 1, 2017, Lothar Klappauf retired as a senior archeology councilor after 36 years of work in Lower Saxony's land monument preservation . Katharina Malek followed him as a consultant at the Mining Archeology department of the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation .

Excavations at the Düna manor , 1982
Gallery of the medieval mine in the old warehouse , 2012

Individual examinations

Starting with a small test excavation, Lothar Klappauf examined the manor at the foot of the Harz Mountains between 1981 and 1985 as an early medieval desert. The investigations using all prospecting methods became a showcase project in desert research. Since 2001 he has been investigating the medieval mine in the old camp of the Rammelsberg . In the last few years of his professional activity, Klappauf was increasingly involved in the prospecting and recording of objects from the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Harz Water Management .

Publications (selection)

  • with Friedrich-Albert Linke: Düna I. The streambed before the representative stone building was erected. Basics of settlement history. In: Material booklets on the prehistory and early history of Lower Saxony. Issue 22, Hildesheim 1990
  • On the archeology of the Harz in: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony 4/1992, pp. 133-137
  • with Friedrich-Albert Linke, W. Brockner, M.-L. Hillebrecht, B. Kuprat, B. and U. Willerding: Treasures of the Harz Mountains - From the 3rd to 13th century AD, guide to the prehistory and early history of Lower Saxony 18 , Goslar, 1992
  • with Friedrich-Albert Linke, K. Hegerhorst, W. Brockner, and H.-G. Bachmann: Copper, lead and silver mining in the western Harz during the 10th century. A.D. - Excavation Schnapsweg, Lautenthal Forest, Ldkr. Goslar. In: Archäometrie und Denkmalpflege, Bochum 1998, pp. 172–177
  • with P. Valde-Nowak and Friedrich-Albert Linke: Neolithic settlement of low mountain ranges: Case study Harz. In: News from Lower Saxony's Prehistory 73, 2004
  • with H. Seeberg: The Harz map from 1682 as an archaeological find map . In: News from Lower Saxony's Prehistory 73, 2004
  • with Friedrich-Albert Linke, Frank Both: Excavation Düna, from the edge of the Harz to the deposits In: Mamoun Fansa , Frank Both, Henning Haßmann (editor): Archeology | Land | Lower Saxony. 400,000 years of history. State Museum for Nature and Man, Oldenburg 2004. Pages 329–332.
  • First archaeological excavations in the old camp of Rammelsberg near Goslar in: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony 2/2012

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mining archeology in the Harz Mountains