Raimund Bauer (local history researcher)

Raimund Bauer (born August 3, 1913 in Heinrichsreith ; † February 15, 2000 in Oberthürnau ) was a lawyer and a local researcher from Lower Austria .

Raimund Bauer's field of work was his closer home, the area around the town of Drosendorf in the Waldviertel . At a young age, inspired by Franz Xaver Kießling , he made the first gatherings and searches. Targeted field research and with it the discovery of numerous settlements from the Neolithic and the late Iron Age did not take place until the second half of the 20th century. In later years, Bauer made an inventory of his collection himself and published - mostly together with Hermann Maurer - reports about it in the specialist journal "Fundberichte aus Österreich" and also articles.

During his lifetime, the collection, which comprises 2162 inventory numbers and contains objects from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages , came into the possession of the Höbarth Museum in Horn , which presented it in a special exhibition in 2002. As a successor to Kießling, Bauer was able to successfully work through the oldest history of the area around Drosendorf, which was rather sparsely populated in prehistoric and early historical matters. Its importance also lies in the fact that he saved many things from destruction and precisely documented his finds for technical purposes.

Fonts

• Prehistoric research and prehistoric finds in the Drosendorf area. Geraser Hefte 12. St. Pölten 1985, p. 18f.
• Illyrian Celtic settlement in Oberthürnau, pol. Bez. Horn. Lower Austria. Mannus 53, 1987, pp. 351ff.
• with Ulfhild Krausl: Drosendorf city guide. Drosendorf 1983.

literature

• Friedrich Berg , Hermann Maurer : The Bauer Collection. Archaeological finds from the area around Drosendorf. In: The Waldviertel. 53, 2004, 229ff. (with a list of the literature on Raimund Bauer).