Steinsburg Museum

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The Steinsburg Museum is a museum for the prehistory and early history of South Thuringia . It is a branch of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of Thuringia and is located in the Römhild district of Waldhaus between the large and the small Gleichberg .

History and description

Shallow body grave from the La Tène period

The museum was founded and built in 1929 on the private initiative of Christian Heurich . Alfred Götze was the first director and leader of the first excavations on the Kleiner Gleichberg .

The permanent exhibition of the Steinsburg Museum is arranged chronologically . The prehistory and early history of southern Thuringia is dealt with in 5 rooms on 180 m² of exhibition space . Significant exhibits include the archaeological finds from the excavations of the Celtic oppidum Steinsburg and a reconstructed flat grave from the Latène period , a find from Einhausen near Meiningen .

The Steinsburg Museum is also the first stage destination on the Celtic Adventure Trail . This 196 km long cultural hiking trail begins in Römhild and leads to uncovered evidence and traces of the Celtic population to the Gleichbergen and the Haßberge , through the Main Valley and the Steigerwald to Bad Windsheim .

See also

literature

(in chronological order)

  • Rudolf Feustel (ed.): Celtic research in southern Thuringia. Museum for Pre- and Early History of Thuringia, Weimar 1979, DNB 800715756 .
  • Museum Association of Thuringia: Steinsburg Museum Römhild. In: Museums in Thuringia. Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen, Frankfurt am Main 1995, DNB 945155476 , p. 149 f.
  • Horst Worliczek, Sven Ostritz (ed.): The Gleichberg area and the Steinsburg Museum near Römhild. (= Archaeological hiking guide Thuringia. Issue 2 / communications from the Steinsburgfreunde community. Special issue 1). State Office for Archeology, Weimar 2004, ISBN 978-3-937517-08-7 .
  • Sven Ostritz (Hrsg.): Festschrift 75 years of the Steinsburg Museum. Beier and Beran, Langenweißbach 2006, ISBN 978-3-937517-42-1 .

Web links

Commons : Steinsburgmuseum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Worliczek, Sven Ostritz (ed.): The Gleichberg area and the Steinsburg Museum near Römhild. State Office for Archeology, Weimar 2004, pp. 36–65.
  2. ↑ Tourismusverband Franken eV: Celtic adventure trail. Zirndorf 2013, pp. 38–39.

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 58.3 "  N , 10 ° 35 ′ 28.3"  E