Osterburken Roman Museum

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The Römermuseum Osterburken, as it has been presented since 2006
The protective structure (old building) built in 1983 above the military bath

The Römermuseum Osterburken is a branch museum of the Archaeological State Museum Baden-Württemberg and a supraregional information center at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes . The museum is located in Osterburken , a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district of Baden-Württemberg . It is located on the western edge of the city center, only a few hundred meters from the course of the Limes and the ruins of the Osterburken Castle .

history

The museum was opened on December 2, 1983 as a branch museum of the Badisches Landesmuseum and was initially directed by the Historisches Verein Bauland, founded in 1976. This association, which was founded from an Osterburken citizens' initiative, had set itself the goal of protecting the then newly discovered Roman military bath (Bad II) from destruction. With the help of donations and funds from the state of Baden-Württemberg, it was possible to secure the preservation of the findings and erect a protective structure. The association not only ran the museum, but also provided the supervisory and cashier staff. In addition, the members of the association took on tours and carried out national advertising, so that Osterburken steadily developed into one of the most important contact points for visitors to the Limes. Over the years, an exhibition that was only open from time to time has developed into a museum that is accessible all year round.

In 2005, the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and on September 16 and 17, 2006, an extensive museum extension was inaugurated. The decision on the appearance and conception of the new building was made after an ideas competition by the city of Osterburken in December 2003 and was won by the architects Auer and Weber together with the interior designer Henning Meyer. Together with this extension, the Osterburken World Heritage Information Center was opened. The new structure had become necessary in order to extensively supplement the protective structure that was now bursting at the seams and the substance of which was retained. The building was honored by the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects for "exemplary building". Since then, a museum café has also been part of the new premises.

The museum was affiliated to the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart until 2003 and then became a branch museum of the Baden-Württemberg State Archaeological Museum . In the spring of 2005, the Roman provincial archaeologist Jörg Scheuerbrandt was appointed the first full-time museum director. In addition to managing the museum, the tender also included the function of a museum officer for the Neckar-Odenwald district.

structure

Römermuseum Osterburken
Exhibition room on the ground floor
Model of the fort and vicus of Osterburken on the ground floor

The exhibition space of the museum is divided into three rooms for the permanent exhibition and one room reserved for temporary exhibitions.

The first room on the ground floor of the new museum building contains Roman stone monuments and artefacts as well as exhibits of Germanic provenance. There the Limes and the Osterburken fort are presented as well as the culture of the residents on both sides of the border.

  • Exhibits on the ground floor

  • Gable fragment of a tombstone, image of the deceased flanked by 2 capricorns
    (cemetery Osterburken-Affeldürn, 2nd half of 1st to 2nd half of 3rd century)

  • Gravestone with a funeral meal from Schloßau , 2nd century

Terra Sigillata from Bad Rappenau

There are two exhibition rooms on the upper floor. In the first room the religion of the Roman Empire, its mixture with native (Celtic) cults and its fusion with oriental religions is shown in a permanent exhibition. The showpiece of the exhibition is a Mithras relief. The second room is reserved for temporary exhibitions.

  • Exhibits on the upper floor

  • Depiction of the Roman world of gods

  • Stone monuments

  • Group of statues from the watchtower Wp 10/37 "Schneidershecke" of the Odenwald Limes

  • Mithras relief

Finally, the third permanent exhibition area is located in the old museum building, a protective structure for the fort thermal baths that were discovered and excavated at this point . The walls and architectural details that were restored and preserved at the site of the find show a complete Roman fort bath including prefurnia and hypocaust complexes in the floor plan and to some extent upwards .

  • Fort thermal baths in the protective structure of the museum

  • Model of the thermal baths

  • Overview of the thermal baths

  • Hypocaust system of the tepidarium

There is also a reconstruction of the beneficiary consecration district of Osterburken with all the consecration stones from this important find complex.

  • Beneficiary consecration district in the extension

  • Exhibition area of ​​the consecration district

  • Group of four consecration stones

  • Consecration stone of Publius Junius Secundus (3rd century)
    (The hole comes from drilling that led to the discovery of the consecration area)

  • Consecration stone of Lucius Traianus Ibliomarus for Dea Candida (180-185 AD)

Only a few hundred meters from the museum is the Osterburken fort , of which the foundation walls of the fortifications of the annex fort have been completely preserved.

Functions

The Römermuseum Osterburken is next to the Limesmuseum Aalen the most important museum center on the Baden-Württemberg section of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes. In addition to the museum presentation of the Limes, the Osterburken fort and the culture of the border regions, there are educational offers as well as - in cooperation with the Limes-Cicerones - organized tours through the museum, the fort area and along the Limes.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Römermuseum Osterburken  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Melanie Müller: Receive beautiful things and benefit from them . www.fnweb.de, July 21, 2012; accessed on September 24, 2016.
  2. ↑ Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects: Award and competition, Römermuseum Osterburken , www.akbw.de, accessed on September 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ Monuments: World Heritage Information Center opens in Osterburken . www.baden-wuerttemberg.de, press release from September 14, 2006; accessed on September 24, 2016.
  4. ↑ Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects: Award-winning objects: Ensemble extension Roman Museum and new building Volksbank Kirnau eG , www.akbw.de, accessed on September 24, 2016.
  5. ↑ Voluntarily run museums are attractive . Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of October 12, 2013; accessed on September 24, 2016.
  6. ↑ Martin Kemkes : Museum planning at the Limes World Heritage Site in Baden-Württemberg . In: Museum today. Facts - Tendencies - Hilfen 29, Munich 2005, pp. 26–29; here: p. 29.
  7. ↑ Official website of Limes-Cicerones eV

Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 45.6 ″  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 31.5 ″  E