Pile building romance
The romanticism of the pile dwelling denotes a movement in science , the visual arts and literature of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, which were shaped by romanticized ideas about the newly discovered, prehistoric pile dwelling settlements on alpine mountain lakes .
background
Until the middle of the 19th century, European antiquity focused almost entirely on classical antiquity in Rome , Egypt and Greece , but its own history found only less interest and less echo in public perception. In the 1850s, the pile dwellings discovered in the alpine mountain lakes of Switzerland , Germany and France first attracted greater scientific attention. It was quickly assumed that these were pile foundations for human settlement structures on the water or in the bank area . Due to the lack of dating methods , the remains of the settlement were classified in pre-Roman times, mostly in the time of the Celts . The ideas about the appearance of these historic pile dwelling settlements were mainly shaped by descriptions of similar settlements from Southeast Asia such as the Philippines and New Guinea due to a lack of scientific knowledge .
In the spirit of Romanticism, the living conditions of the inhabitants of the settlement at that time were idyllically transfigured, the largely uniform idea of a wild population emerged that lived in a harmonious family or clan community , in a romantic setting, from hunting and fishing . These motifs have become the subject of numerous contemporary drawings and paintings by artists such as Albert Anker , Rodolphe-Auguste Bachelin and Karl Jauslin , or literary stories such as those by David Friedrich Weinland and Friedrich Theodor Vischer ( Auch Eine ). These romanticized ideas shaped the generally widespread image of historical pile dwellers and found their way into popular scientific and even scientific publications, some of which are still noticeable today.
Unknown artist: Early pile dwelling settlers on a Swiss mountain lake , around 1883–1884
School blackboard from Meyer's Lexicon 1885–1890
A pile dwelling village in Lake Constance (Untersee) , in the section of the Hohlefels near Schelklingen, lithograph from the end of the 19th century.
literature
- Hans-Georg Bandi, Karl Zimmermann: Pile building romance of the 19th century . Ed .: Alexander Tanner. Historisch-Archäologischer Verlag, Zurich 1980.
- Helmut Schlichtherle : pile dwelling romance . In: Archeology in Lakes and Moors . Theiss, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0435-7 , pp. 12-17 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Helmut Schlichtherle : Pfahlbauromantik . In: Archeology in Lakes and Moors . Theiss, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0435-7 , pp. 12-17 .