Quantum Ennetach Roman Museum
 Ennetach Roman Museum |
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| place | Quantities - Ennetach |
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Archaeological Museum
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| opening | July 1, 2001 |
| management |
(2009 until closure ) Judith Seifert
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-775219 |
The Roman Museum Mengen-Ennetach was an archaeological museum in the Ennetach district of the city of Mengen in the Baden-Württemberg district of Sigmaringen . The focus of the multi-award-winning museum was on the presentation of finds from Roman times .
museum
The museum building with its open glass facade was installed between April 2000 and June 2001 in a barn built in 1922 in the center of Ennetach. The exhibition design was scientifically supervised by the archaeologist Martina Meyr, who headed the museum from 2001 to 2009. The project management was with Claudio Hils (Mengen) and the graphics are by T. K. Schütte (Essen). The facility was funded by the European Union's LEADER II project for structurally weak areas in rural areas. The construction costs including the exhibition amounted to 3.7 million German marks. The client was the city of Mengen. On July 1, 2001, the museum, supported by the city of Mengen, was opened. By resolution of the municipal council on December 12, 2015, the museum was closed on December 31, 2015.
The modern permanent exhibition illustrated the history of the region as well as various archaeological research methods through numerous models, reconstructions , display boards and interactive electronic forms of presentation. The exhibition was arranged chronologically and according to subject areas. On the first floor of the Roman Museum, everyday life in Roman times was explained in five themed islands. Pre-Roman history represented in one room by presenting the hilltop settlements of the Bronze and La Tène periods . An extensive museum educational program for children and school classes rounded off the permanent exhibition. On the ground floor of the museum there was the Café Domus in the style of a Roman street station. At the Roman meal offered there, dishes were prepared according to Apicius' cookbook from the 2nd century AD.
The didactically good preparation of the finds as well as the use of multimedia animations have already led to several awards. In 2004, the Baden-Württemberg Archeology Prize, which is only awarded every two years, was accepted. In 2006 the museum won the competition “Exemplary local museum in the administrative district of Tübingen”. It also received the “Exemplary Building” award in the Sigmaringen district.
Due to the heavy loss of business and difficulties in finding new tenants for the museum café, the closure of the museum was announced in 2015.
Special exhibitions
In addition to the core inventory with finds from the fort and settlement area of Mengen-Ennetach, the Roman Museum showed changing special exhibitions.
Colores? Colores! - The colorful world of the Romans
The special exhibition “Colores? Colores! - The colorful world of the Romans ”from May 20 to September 9, 2012 was conceived in the Roman Museum in Stettfeld in 2009 and is dedicated to the colors of colorful Roman busts and figures, colorful reliefs and stones. It does away with all viewing habits and aesthetic ideas in puristic white. The exhibits show that the ancient world of the Romans was more colorful than the empire period after the ornate Baroque would like to have. The exhibition was also complemented by two color reconstructed finds from Mengen: the Mercury relief and the Apollo-Grannus stone.
Gladiators on Rome's borders. The amphitheater in Künzing
The special exhibition “Gladiators on Rome's Borders. The Amphitheater in Künzing ”, which was on view from April 2 to August 30, 2009 in the Roman Museum Mengen-Ennetach, the first results of the spectacular rediscovery of a wooden Roman amphitheater in the municipality of Künzing by the Deggendorf District Archeology were presented in 2003. This special exhibition came to Ennetach as an exchange: The exhibition was on view at the Quintana Archeology Museum in Künzing from March 23 to July 29, 2007. The previous Ennetach exhibition “Well soled! Shoes, boots and sandals ”could then be seen in the Quintana Museum in Künz .
Well soled! Shoes, boots and sandals
In the special exhibition “Well Soled! Shoes, boots and sandals ”from July 12th to November 30th 2008, leather and shoe remnants from the 2nd century AD in the area of an ancient stream of the Roman settlements of Mengen-Ennetach were presented under the exclusion of air. In addition, objects from other sites were exhibited and information on various aspects relating to shoes was offered. Concept: Martina Meyr / Peter Knötzele.
The secret of the Medusa of crowds
The special exhibition "The Secret of Medusa von Mengen", which was on view in the Roman Museum from April 27 to October 9, 2007, offered a Roman mosaic depicting a Medusa head as the highlight of the exhibition . It was found in a Roman villa in Mengen in 1876 and has been lost since the Second World War, but was found and restored in the Württemberg State Museum in 2002. Concept: Takeover of the exhibition "Pictures from Stone" at the Archaeological State Museum Baden-Württemberg and additions by Martina Meyr.
The dog is worth the throne - dogs in ancient times
The special exhibition "The dog is worth the throne - dogs in antiquity" was on view from October 21 to December 3, 2006 in the Roman Museum. Concept: Peter Knötzele
"... proof of how far the Romans power"
Accompanying exhibition for the Roman Year 2005. The exhibition on the history of research was shown in several museums in Baden-Württemberg, including the Roman Museum Mengen-Ennetach.
Previous exhibitions
2004
- “Fascination with the past. From Heinrich Schliemann to Lara Croft ”; an exhibition by students from the University of Freiburg. Joint exhibition with the Heuneburg Celtic Museum in Hundersingen
- Photo exhibition "People from my homeland - citizens from Mengen", Rüdiger Hartmann, Mengen
- “Man and Landscape”; an exhibition by the Tuttlingen Agricultural Office in cooperation with NABU
2003
- Calendar in the wood. Annual rings as witnesses of time; an exhibition by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office
- Maps from the Romans to the present day; an exhibition of the Land Surveying Office Baden-Württemberg
Archaeological circular walk
The museum is complemented by a five-kilometer archaeological circular hiking trail that was set up in 1999 and 2000 to find sites in the area. Since both the buildings of the Roman fort on the hill in the middle of the first century AD to monitor the Danube and Ablach valleys, as well as those of the Mengen-Ennetach settlement were predominantly made of wood, nothing of them has survived above ground.
The twelve picture panels along the way were renewed in 2007 and also provide information about the settlement history before the Romans and at the same time give an insight into the methods of archeology.
Stations
The path begins at the Roman Museum, past the former, presumably Roman bath - a ceramic shard suggests that there might have been a bath here.
- Plate 1: Overview of the archaeological monuments
- Table 2: Quantities and Ennetach - 4000 years of history
- Plate 3: The Roman settlement of Ennetach
Then the path leads to the "Ennetacher Berg", where the Roman fort Ennetach and a prehistoric section fortification - a Bronze Age settlement that could also be proven for the early Iron Age - were located.
- Plate 4: A late Bronze Age fortification on the Ennetacher Berg
- Panels 5 + 6: Römer on the Ennetacher Berg - the fort
From there you continue along the northern edge of the slope with a view of the Danube valley to the remains of a Celtic square hill , a characteristic settlement form of the late Celtic period
- Table 7: Aerial archeology in the Danube Valley - a bird's eye view
- The aerial archeology of Baden-Württemberg discovered numerous square jumps, including the square hill in Ennetach, which measures around 105 x 95 meters. During excavations in 1998, in addition to a square well shaft and a 19 x 12 meter floor plan of a post structure, the body grave of a 30 ... 35 year old woman from the early Bronze Age was uncovered.
- Plate 8: Before the Romans came - the Celtic Viereckschanze of Mengen-Ennetach
- Plate 9: Apollo Grannus - consecration at the spring sanctuary
Here, on Hipfelsberg, a consecration stone in the form of an altar was found in 1810 . It is dedicated to Apollo Grannus and the nymphs, the guardian spirits of a local spring. A reproduced stone (see photo) is now close to where it was found.
- APOLINI GRANNO ET NIMPHIS C (AIUS) VIDIUS IULIUS PRO SE ET SUIS V (OTUM) S (OLVIT) L (IBENS) L (AETUS) M (ERITO)
- Gaius Vidius dedicates Julius to Apollo Grannus and the nymphs for himself and his family (this stone). He happily and joyfully fulfilled the vow according to its due.
The path goes south after the Hipfelsberg and there are references to the geology of the Ennetacher Berg.
- Table 10: Ice and water formed the Ennetacher Berg - geology of the Ennetacher Berg
The path then leads to the former holy district near the current rifle house before returning to the museum.
- Plate 11: A street sanctuary above the Ablachtal - consecration to Mercury
- Plate 12: The early Celtic burial mound field in the Ablachtal
literature
- Hagmann Sabine / Meyr Martina u. a. "Teacher's Guide" for Celts and Romans on the Upper Danube. Oberschulamt Tübingen (Ed.), 2004
- Martina Meyr: Soldiers and traders on the upper Danube - a guide through the Roman museum Mengen-Ennetach Werk. Greiner, Remshalden 2003, ISBN 3-935383-22-3
- Martina Meyr: Roman Museum Mengen-Ennetach. A modern museum in Upper Swabia. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 31st year 2002, issue 3, p. 193f. ( PDF; 14.5 MB )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guy-Pascal Dorner: Roman Museum Mengen-Ennetach. Martina Meyr goes to Rottweil . In: Schwäbische Zeitung, May 8, 2009
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- ^ Edwin Ernst Weber: The prehistory and early history in the district of Sigmaringen . ed. from the district of Sigmaringen, department culture and archive, and Kulturforum district Sigmaringen e. V. 2009
- ↑ Jennifer Kuhlmann: "Roman Museum closes forever." In: Schwäbische Zeitung, December 2, 2015
- ↑ Sabine Herforth: Search for traces: hikers are Romans on their heels. The archaeological trail leads to various sites. In: Schwäbische Zeitung from August 18, 2011
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '8.41 " N , 9 ° 19' 6.87" E