Venus of Aufhausen

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The Venus von Aufhausen is an approximately 6000 year old clay figure that was discovered in Aufhausen near Landau on the Isar . It is considered one of the most important archaeological finds in Bavaria . In November 2019 it became publicly known that the original figure, of which there are several duplicates, has been missing for several years.

description

Venus is an approximately 32.5 cm high, inside hollow clay vessel in a human-like shape, with two legs and a facial representation. It represents a woman in stylized form. The figure comes from the Neolithic Age and is assigned to the Münchshöfen culture . It was found in 1997 by amateur archaeologists near Aufhausen near Landau and was shown at several exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including a. 2003 in People, Times, Spaces - Archeology in Germany in Berlin .

loss

In August 2019, in preparation for the new Museum Kastenhof Landau - The Museum for Stone Age and Present , it turned out that the figure stored in the safe of the District Office of Dingolfing-Landau was only a copy . The State Archaeological Collection in Munich made several duplicates for the district administration in 2012 and handed them over to the district archeology department together with the original. According to internal investigations, it is assumed that the original has been missing since at least 2015. However, a criminal offense is excluded. On the occasion of the Berlin federal exhibition People, Times, Spaces - Archeology in Germany 2003, the figure was insured against theft for 750,000 euros , but not against loss.

literature

  • Ludwig Kreiner, Robert Pleyer: The "Venus of Aufhausen". A special vessel of Münchshöfen culture. In: Lectures of the Lower Bavarian Archaeological Day . tape 17 , 1999, p. 55-69 .
  • Timothy Insoll (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017, pp. 716 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andreas Glas: Valuable archaeological clay vessel is gone. In: sueddeutsche.de . November 12, 2019, accessed November 13, 2019 .
  2. ^ Archeology: A Venus from Lower Bavaria. In: FOCUS Magazin , 36/1997. September 1, 1997, accessed November 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b "Venus von Aufhausen": An important archaeological find has disappeared. In: BR24 . November 12, 2019, accessed November 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Monika Bormeth: Archaeological find: The Venus von Aufhausen has disappeared. In: idowa . November 12, 2019, accessed November 13, 2019 .