Reinhard Roseneck

Reinhard Roseneck during an exploration of the Rosenhof mine in September 2009

Reinhard Roseneck (born March 6, 1950 in Schwerin ; † September 8, 2012 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German preservationist and senior curator at the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation . One of his greatest achievements in 1992 was his recognition of the old town of Goslar and the Rammelsberg mine as a World Heritage Site , which in turn was expanded to include the Upper Harz water shelf due to his efforts in 2010 . He decisively shaped the facilities of the mining museum on the Rammelsberg (Goslar), the Walkenried monastery and the cave experience center at the Iberg stalactite cave . All three institutions were a great success, both musically and economically.

Life

Roseneck grew up in Hagen , where he attended a Waldorf school for a long time . At the beginning of the last school year he switched to a state high school, where he passed his Abitur. He then studied urban and regional planning at the TU Berlin, where he also received his doctorate. In 1981 he got a job at the Institute for Monument Preservation in Braunschweig . He developed a special interest in industrial monuments and campaigned for the preservation of mining facilities in the western Harz. These include, in particular, the systems of the Upper Harz water shelf , the Kaiser Wilhelm shaft and the Ottiliae shaft in Clausthal-Zellerfeld .

After mining in the Rammelsberg ore mine ceased in 1988, he and his colleagues on site ensured that the main surface facilities of the mine were preserved and set up as a museum. He not only succeeded in convincing the decision-makers of this plan, but also in organizing the funds required to maintain and operate these facilities. Good contacts to internationally active monument protection experts as well as to the responsible state ministry helped him to submit an application for the inclusion of the Rammelsberg mine and Goslar's old town in the list of world cultural heritage sites at UNESCO , which was accepted by the World Heritage Committee in 1992.

A short time later, Roseneck was appointed managing director of the Rammelsberg mining museum. He played a key role in setting up the museum, developed a Goslar project “EXPO on the Rocks” as part of EXPO 2000 and ensured a broad scientific basis. Differences with the supervisory board and the unproven accusation that he could not handle money led to his replacement in 2003. This dismissal put a lasting strain on his relationship with Goslar, but above all that of some city councilors with him.

Roseneck went back to the state service and pushed ahead with the expansion of the world heritage site to include the Upper Harz water shelf, which was initiated in 1999. The Walkenried Monastery Cistercian Museum , which was largely developed by him, was inaugurated in 2006 . From 2006 to 2008 he mainly worked on setting up the Iberg stalactite cave experience center . Both museums manage almost without public subsidies. He worked out the application to UNESCO to recognize the facilities of the Upper Harz water shelf as an extension of the Goslar World Heritage Site. This application was recognized in summer 2010 and was one of Roseneck's last great successes.

Due to his high scientific reputation, his instinct for the establishment of successful museums and his ability to raise generous amounts of public funds, he was then to become the foundation director of the Harz World Heritage Foundation , an institution that scientifically and museum manages all World Heritage sites in the Lower Saxony part of the Harz Mountains. This appointment failed due to resistance from Goslar.

Most recently, Roseneck was the scientific director of the Cistercian Museum of the Walkenried Monastery and curator of the NORD / LB · Public Foundation and a member of the Upper Harz Water Shelf Advisory Board. He was also an honorary professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Others

Reinhard Roseneck lived in Wolfenbüttel . He was married and had two children. He died of cancer in September 2012 at the age of 62.

In June 2014, the mining town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld honored its committed district curator by renaming the street that connects the Rosenhof pit with the Ottiliaeschacht to Reinhard-Roseneck-Weg .

Publications

• Dankwarderode Castle. A monument to Henry the Lion . 1995, ISBN 978-3-929902-63-1 .
• The Rammelsberg , Niemeyer-Verlag, Hameln, 1992
• Recent urban development of historic old towns in small and medium-sized towns, shown in twenty historic old towns and in particular using the example of the historic old town of Weissenburg in Bavaria , dissertation, TU Berlin, 1980
• The Rammelsberg: a thousand years of man - nature - technology , Verlag der Goslarschen Zeitung, Goslar, 2001 (two volumes)
• Museum Guide / Cistercian Museum, Walkenried Monastery Texts by Brigitte Moritz and Ortrud Krause. Edited by Reinhard Roseneck for the district of Osterode am Harz, Cistercian Museum, Walkenried Monastery, 2010

literature

• Justus Teicke: Macher des Welterbes , In: Unser Harz , Issue 11/2012, Oberharzer Druckerei und Verlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, 2012

Web links

• Martin Jasper: The visionary of the Harz powerhouse. Salzgitter-Zeitung, September 10, 2012, accessed on September 17, 2012 .