Wolfgang Schwabenicky

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Wolfgang Schwabenicky (born July 4, 1940 in Mittweida ) is a German pedagogue, choir director, historian, archaeologist, building researcher and preservationist. He is considered one of the most important mining archaeologists in Central Europe.

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Schwabenicky was appointed honorary monument conservationist in 1966 and in 1970 he was appointed to the district committee for prehistory in Karl-Marx-Stadt in the Society for Homeland History of the GDR Cultural Association, of which he finally became chairman in 1985.

Contact with the State Museum of Prehistory in Dresden intensified after five houses burned down on the market in Mittweida on January 2, 1963 and Wolfgang Schwabenicky, under the guidance of Heinz-Joachim Vogt, supervised the excavation work for the reconstruction in 1964/65 during the archaeological phase. The first major excavation was the investigation of the Beerwalde moated castle from 1967 to 1970, which is one of the very few such facilities in Central Germany to have been fully published. Smaller investigations, as repeated in Mittweida city center and at Kriebstein Castle , followed.

Between 1977 and 1996, extensive archaeological excavations were carried out on the staircases near Frankenberg / Sa with the significant help of the teacher Schwabenicky . instead of. Among other things, numerous remains of the walled mountain town of Bleiberg were uncovered , which was mentioned twice in sources from the 14th century and is now protected as a ground monument. In Bleiberg, ores containing silver were mined in large quantities from 1250 to around 1350.

In 1988 Schwabenicky founded the "District Office for Ground Monument Preservation Mittweida". In 1992 he received his doctorate from the Humboldt University of Berlin on the excavation results on the staircase. The title of his dissertation is The Medieval Silver, Lead and Copper Mining in the Central and Western Ore Mountains and in the Ore Mountains Foreland with special consideration of the excavation results from the staircases near Sachsenburg .

Since Judith Oexle took office as state archaeologist in 1993, Wolfgang Schwabenicky has increasingly turned to building archeology and building history. Numerous studies on town houses, especially in Mittweida and on the village churches in Auerswalde , Breitenborn, Göhren, Niederrossau , Sachsenburg and Tanneberg as well as on the town church in Mittweida are the fruits of this work. The architectural archeological investigations of farmhouses in the Mittweida district deserve special attention, as a result of which a scientifically proven development scheme for rural half-timbered architecture from the middle of the 16th century to the 19th century was created in a small area of Saxony for the first time.

One of the most important investigations in recent years is the archaeological and building archaeological investigation of Sachsenburg Castle from 2002 to 2009, which resulted in a comprehensive monograph on buildings. Together with the Kuratorium Schloß Sachsenburg e. V. Schwabenicky campaigned for the safeguarding and renovation of the structure of Sachsenburg Castle, accompanying the construction work with intensive construction studies. Since his retirement, Schwabenicky has devoted himself to the excavations and construction studies that he has carried out and which have not yet been published.

He is co-organizer of the regular event Saxonia Cantat at Sachsenburg Castle and choirmaster of the singing association “Vivat canticum” Altmittweida eV

Honors

  • On the occasion of his 65th birthday in 2005 he received the first certificate of honor from the Mittweida district from the district administrator .
  • Furthermore, in 2005 he was awarded the Andreas Möller History Prize of the Foundation for Art and Culture of the Kreissparkasse Freiberg .
  • An appraisal and a bibliography up to 2005 can be found in issue 96, 2005 of the communications of the Freiberg Altertumsverein (p. 5–16, and p. 17–23).

Works (selection)

  • Medieval silver mining in the Erzgebirge foreland and in the western Erzgebirge with special consideration of the excavations in the desert mountain town of Bleiberg near Frankenberg , Chemnitz: Verlag Klaus Gumnior 2009, ISBN 978-3-937386-20-1
  • Sachsenburg Castle, history and building history based on archival and building archaeological studies , Kuratorium Schloss Sachsenburg eV, publisher, Sachsenburg 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Schwabenicky, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, choir director, historian, archaeologist, building researcher and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Mittweida