City Museum Damme
The Damme City Museum was set up in 1991 in the former train station in the town of Damme in the Lower Saxony district of Vechta and opened in 1992.
The museum has several exhibition focuses. These include exhibits on the "oldest plank path in the world", artefacts from the surrounding graves from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age , exhibits on Dersaburg and the territorial dispute between the prince-bishops of Osnabrück and Münster in the city area (1252–1802 and 1831). In addition, the development of the " Dammer Carnival " with the Dammer Carnevalsgesellschaft from 1614 is shown . Another focus is iron ore mining the years 1939 to 1967, an industry in which at times a thousand employees worked and which supplied one twentieth of the German ore production.
Numerous Mesolithic sites, 42 of which have been mapped, are known from the Dümmer area, which was much larger at that time. The oldest boardwalk was built around 4550 BC. BC and is one of the boardwalks in Campemoor . Between Dievenmoor and Hunteburger Straße, another plank and pile path was found through the moor in the 1930s, which ran between 500 and 300 BC. Was built. There was also the “ megalithic grave ” in Neuenwalde, which also dates from the Neolithic, and the Bronze Age urn grave field from Mahnenberg in Bergfeine (district of Damme), a kind of cemetery that was in use for almost a millennium. In 1937, settlement remains (Huntedorf I) were excavated in Dümmer , which were later dated between 5000 and 4000 BC. Were dated.
The museum is funded by a volunteer working group of the home and beautification association “Oldenburgische Schweiz” founded in 1897 .
Web links
- Entry to the city museum on the website of the home and beautification association "Oldenburgische Schweiz" Damme eV
Remarks
- ↑ Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , Vol. 6, p. 238.
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '12.7 " N , 8 ° 11' 27.7" E