Wilhelm Barner

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Wilhelm Barner (born July 2, 1893 in Ringelheim ; † May 6, 1973 in Alfeld (Leine) ) was a German teacher and local researcher . He was home nurse of the Alfeld district and head of the Alfeld municipal museum .

Life

Barner was born in Ringelheim in what was then the district of Goslar in 1893 . He trained as a primary school teacher and passed the first teacher examination in 1914. He initially taught in the districts of Münden, Göttingen and Einbeck before moving to Deilmissen in the Alfeld district in 1916 , where he took his second teacher examination in 1918. From 1936 he worked at the Alfeld Citizens' School. In 1949 he retired from school for health reasons.

Barner began in the 1920s with research on prehistory and folklore of the Leinebergland . In the 1960s he undertook extensive excavations in the Sackwald at the Hohen Schanze and the Winzenburg . After the Second World War , Barner campaigned for the establishment of a local history museum in the old Alfeld Latin School, a free - standing half - timbered house from 1610. For many years he was the director of the museum, which exhibits objects from prehistory and early history as well as objects from local handicrafts and small sculptures. Barner was home nurse of the Alfeld district. His circle of friends and acquaintances included the Lower Saxony homeland researchers Otto Fahlbusch , Georg Köstermann , Curt Sauermilch , Otto Thielemann and Franz Zobel .

Wilhelm Barner died in Alfeld in 1973.

Honors

Barner received numerous honors, including the Federal Cross of Merit , the Lower Saxony Order of Merit 1st Class and the Brothers Grimm Medal . On July 2, 1958, Barner was made an honorary citizen of the city of Alfeld. The Wilhelm-Barner-Weg was named after him in Alfeld.

Fonts (selection)

Barner wrote numerous publications on prehistory and prehistory, folklore and nature and monument protection. He published in the Göttingen yearbook, among others .

  • Our home: the land between Hildesheimer Wald and Ith. , On behalf of d. District teachers' association Gronau, Hildesheim, 1931.
  • Prehistory of the Leinebergland for school and home , Hildesheim, 1934.
  • A late Carolingian farm on the desert of Assum (Feldmark Eime, Alfeld district) . In: Die Kunde 1935, Vol. 3, H. 7/8.
  • Old Paleolithic finds from southern Hanover . In: Quartär 1941, pp. 44–55 ( online , PDF).
  • Coat of arms and seal of the Alfeld district , Hildesheim, 1953.
  • The pilgrim stone from Elze . In: Lower Saxony 1960, issue 4, pp. 158–165.
  • The Tiebenburg. Report on the 1st excavation (1959) in the fortifications in the Rennstieg area near Winzenburg, Kr. Alfeld / Leine . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1960, Volume 8, pp. 3–27.
  • Old palaeolite finds from the gravel of the crack age terrace near Alfeld (Leine) . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1962, Volume 10, pp. 19–36.
  • The old Paleolithic site in the middle terrace on the Lehder Mountains near Gronau . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1963, Volume 11, pp. 7–32.
  • The votive bowl from Wendhausen, Hildesheim district . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1965, Volume 13, pp. 31–38.
  • Early Mesolithic sites and individual finds in the Alfeld area (Leine) . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1966, Volume 14, pp. 37–48.
  • The Winzenburg. Its topographical-military location and the date of its foundation . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1968, Volume 16, pp. 37–48.
  • The origin of Alfeld according to prehistoric finds from the La Tène period . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1970, Volume 18, pp. 33-48.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bremen / Lower Saxony , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1977, p. 67.
  2. ^ Wolfram Forche: Otto Thielemann (obituary). In: Braunschweigische Heimat. 78, 1992, pp. 3-5.
personal data
SURNAME Barner, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Ringelheim
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1973
Place of death Alfeld (leash)