Foundation to promote archeology in the Rhenish lignite mining area

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The Foundation for the Promotion of Archeology in the Rhenish Brown Coal District was established in April 1990. The donors were the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and RWE Power , the donor was the Rhineland Regional Association , which is also the manager. The preservation of monuments in the area of ​​open-cast lignite mining between Bonn , Aachen and Grevenbroich is funded . The most important concern is to save archaeological monuments from destruction by lignite mining.

Foundation, endowment

The foundation's capital is 16.2 million euros. Every year around half a million euros are distributed. This also includes grants for master's and doctoral theses.

Representatives and deputies are delegated to the board from the three sides involved for four years each. The founders each appoint two people to the advisory board. His members are: Thomas Stöllner ( Ruhr University Bochum ), Jan Bemmann (Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archeology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , Bonn), Jürgen Kunow (Head of the Rhenish Office for Ground Monument Preservation, Bonn), Udo Geilenbrügge ( Head of the Titz branch of the RAB) (LVR), Andreas Zimmermann ( University of Cologne ), and George Milojcic ( German Brown Coal Industry Association (DEBRIV), Cologne).

Area of ​​responsibility

Every year an area of ​​around 350 hectares is mined in the Garzweiler , Hambach and Inden opencast mines in the Rhenish lignite district . The official archaeological monument preservation with its emergency excavations reaches its limits. The aim of the foundation is to give archaeologists the opportunity to keep pace with coal mining and to save as much historical material as possible. The work on the opencast mines is supervised by the Rhineland Regional Council - Rheinisches Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege ( Titz branch ). Every year, around 200,000 finds are inventoried, documented and, if necessary, restored.

So far there have been excavations in eight places: Hahner Hof, St. Pankratius Church, Reuschenberg Castle, settlements in the Inde estuary, Stolzenberg House and the Neolithic settlement group between Inden and Altdorf. The foundation also sponsors exhibitions and specialist conferences in its field. An archeology day is held annually, where visitors can watch the archaeologist at work.

Archeology award

The foundation's archeology prize has been awarded at irregular intervals since 1993. It honors innovative research approaches to archeology in lignite mining . The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros.

Award winners

literature

  • Carl Dietmar: Treasury of the Rheinisches lignite district, stories from the past , Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz, 2010 (commemorative publication for the 20th anniversary)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b website of the foundation

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