Museum for Prehistory and Early History Frauwalde

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The Museum of Prehistory and Early History Frauwalde in Lossataler district Frauwalde is a department of homeland association Frauwalde 1999 e. V.

Random archaeological finds and soil monuments around Frauwalde are exhibited here to provide an overview of the oldest past of human settlement history in this region. The research results confirm that the north-west Saxon region, the Dahlener Heide , has repeatedly been an interesting settlement area over the past 7,000 years. The artefacts document the life of the arable farmers and cattle breeders from the Middle and Younger Stone Age to the German repopulation period in the 12th century.

The conceptual design and implementation of the collection concept were completed in 2005. By August 2007, a visual and staff-independent museum tour could be realized through the use of electronic media and an information and guidance system.

Holdings of the collection

Permanent exhibition

In the permanent exhibition, visitors can see artefacts from the Neolithic , the Bronze Age , the Iron Age , the Sorbian Settlement Period and the German Resettlement Period, which happened to be found by the local farmers as early as the second half of the 18th century. They were now part of the exhibition's holdings on permanent loan and today allow a glimpse into the oldest regional settlement history.

Bronze Age burial ground

The tumuli fields of Frauwalde dated the State Office of Archeology Dresden in the time of about 1400 to 900 v. Both fields, the field on the Lärchenweg to Falkenhain as well as the field on the Ramschen Holz, are protected land monuments. In a letter to the Prince of Reuss dated May 14, 1855, the construction of the burial places is described in detail. Then there were stone boxes in the hills, each 1½ cubits long and wide; they were covered with two or three stone slabs, and in the chambers there were urns and vessels. At that time there was still earth pouring about four cubits above the chambers. The hills were 15 to 20 cubits wide.

Runestone at Hellfurt

The Devil's Stone, the only rune stone between the Saale and the Elbe, is located in the forest corridor on the Höllenfurt . At its southern end, a sacrificial trough and runes were artificially incorporated in different epochs . Until the beginning of the 20th century, the mysticism among the inhabitants of the surrounding villages, which grew around this sacrificial stone as the place of the old gods, persisted. In the 1930s fanatics tried to end religiosity and myth by blowing it up.

Contents of the historical text program

  1. The museum, one of four centers in the Geopark Nordsachsen
  2. The creation of the Frauwalde Museum
  3. A 7,000 year history of settlement
  4. Origin of the raw materials for the Neolithic tools
  5. Burial rites of the Bronze Age
  6. The secrets of the rune stone
  7. The triumph of iron does not pass Frauwalde either
  8. A monastery village and a manor village become today's Frauwalde
  9. Historically significant routes between the Mulde and Elbe
  10. Hydronomy of the place and river names in the south of the Dahlener Heide
  11. History of the streams and ponds around Frauwalde
  12. The disappeared villages of the Dahlener Heide
  13. The reason for the desertification of Lamprechtswalde
  14. The change of languages ​​and the change of dialects in the heath
  15. Agriculture through the millennia
  16. The rule of the nobility; the owners of the Börln manor

Research and text drafting of the historical processes by Erwin Heinze, Heimatverein Frauwalde 1999 e. V. Editorial support through the historical seminar for prehistory and early history at the University of Leipzig.

Collection concept for the permanent exhibition

The profile of the collection is linked to the topic presented via the exhibition of soil monuments and finds that belong to the prehistory and early history of the village of Frauwalde. The collection is arranged according to relative historical chronology in the Middle and Younger Neolithic Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Germanic Era, Sorbian Era, German Resettlement Era in the 12th century and other historically valuable testimonies.

Original archaeological finds as well as true-to-original copies of Frauwalder artefacts that have meanwhile found their way into state museums are exhibited. The entirety of the urns and vessels recovered from the graves in the 19th century could not be found up to the present time. The collection concept was implemented by Erwin Heinze, Heimatverein Frauwalde 1999 e. V.

Exhibition tour

The museum tour takes place via a video clip with wall projection and sound playback. Text bands on the exhibition showcases explain the life of the people in the respective historical periods to the visitor. This is supported and supplemented by suitable images. The designation and chronological assignment of the exhibits is based on currently valid scientific knowledge. A detailed tour of the exhibition can only be carried out verbally by the museum management and thus provides visitors with all the knowledge about Frauwalder history.

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