Romano-Germanic Central Museum (Mainz)

The Roman- Germanic Central Museum Research Institute for Archaeology ( RGZM ) in Mainz is a global Research Institute of Archaeology, which is supported by federal and state governments and is part of the Leibniz Association of German research institutions.

Divided into several sections, the Institute works in the area of the Old World and its contact zones of the Old Stone Age to the Middle Ages. In addition, it maintains a permanent display collection and turns his numerous publications and events of the graphic teaching of the latest research findings to a broad public.

  • 3.1 Restoration Workshops

History

The museum was founded by Ludwig Lindenschmit the Elder in 1852, after at the " meeting of German history and antiquary " on 16 to 19 August 1852 in Dresden, the establishment of a " Central Museum of Germanic and Roman Antiquities" in Mainz and a " Germanic Museum "was adopted in Nuremberg ( Germanic National Museum Nuremberg). The establishment of the Central Museum in the major medieval city of Mainz and his placement in the electoral castle are not random, but symbolic of the national claim of the museum at the time of the German Confederation.

In the first years of its existence the RGZM was faced with major financial and structural difficulties since one hand, failed to put by the rest of the club prospect support and the Nuremberg Germanic Museum set a claim to sole representation and the chief executive of the Mainz museum pressed to join the Germanic Museum. Only with the unification in 1871 received the RGZM an annual budget, which also Ludwig Lindenschmit allowed to exercise the museum work full-time ( up to that point he was still working as an art teacher ). Ludwig Lindenschmit the Elder coined the character of the museum as a research copy collection, which was to bring together all the key findings from Germany or Europe, thus enabling comparative work. After his death, his son Louis Lindenschmit took over the younger the direction of the Museum.

1900 Karl Schumacher first director of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, for which he would be 25 years worked was. He expanded the scope of the museum from four to 27 showrooms, let more copies and reconstructions in the museum's workshop manufacture and gave 297 works under his name out among many catalogs in particular the three -volume work of settlement and cultural history of the Rhineland.

Today's presentation in Mainz continues the character of a study collection, which is aimed more at professionals and interested laymen times as to a wide audience. Lately also "Science Educational programs " offered and special presents, the current research to pick up. Although the RGZM has at times perceived the tasks of the Monuments of Rheinhessen, while also conducted their own excavations, restoration workshops of the Museum are today the basis of his scientific work, during field research projects are mainly operated in the field offices in Neuwied and Mayen.

In early December 2007, a new building for the RGZM was adjacent to the South of Mainz to Maritime Museum decided.

Employee

  • Karl Schumacher (1900-1926)
  • Gustav Behrens ( 1927 - )
  • Wolfgang Fritz Volbach (1953-1958)
  • Kurt Boehner (1958-1981)
  • Konrad Weidemann (1982-2003)
  • Falko Daim (since 2003)
  • Ludwig Lindenschmit the Younger (1893-1912)
  • Paul Reinecke (1897-1908)
  • Friedrich Behn (1909-1948)
  • Karl Nahrgang (1925-1940)
  • Sprockhoff Ernst (1928-1935)
  • Hans Klum Bach (1930-1969)
  • Hans Jürgen Hundt (1954-1974)
  • Jürgen Driehaus (1955-1961)
  • Thea Elisabeth Haevernick (1956-1964)
  • Maria Hopf (1956-1979)
  • Olav Höckmann (1965-1997)
  • Götz Waurick (1971-2005)
  • Künzl Ernst (1971-2004)
  • Horst Wolfgang Böhme (1972-1992)
  • Peter Schauer (1972-1991)
  • Mechthild Schulze- Dried Lamb (1976-2009)
  • Markus Egg ( since 1978)
  • Barbara Pferdehirt ( since 1982)
  • Friedrich- Wilhelm von Hase (1983-2002)
  • Gerhard Bosinski (1985-2003)
  • Sabine Gaudzinski - Windheuser (since 1991)
  • Michael Müller- Karpe (since 1993)
  • Alexander Koch (1993-1999)

Research priorities

Department and across time temporary research interests are formed, in which scientists from different departments work together on cultural and historical issues. It involves the following topics:

  • Becoming human / Incarnation: The evolution of human behavior,
  • Mediterranean traditions in shipbuilding in Western, Central and Northern Europe,
  • Forms of Romanization in the northern border provinces of the Roman Empire from Britain to the Black Sea,
  • Studies on the structure and genesis of elites in pre- and proto-historic societies,
  • Depositions in the pre- and early history,
  • Emergence of an industrial landscape,
  • The ancient quarry and mining region between the Eifel and the Rhine,
  • Transformation and cultural exchange at the edge of the Mediterranean world.

The presentation of the research is closely connected to the volcano park in the district of Mayen -Koblenz. One focus of the work lies in exploring the use of volcanic rocks as building material and as millstones especially in Roman times. Building materials from the East Eifel was used to build the Roman Colonia Ulpia Traiana at Xanten, and came to southern Scandinavia.

The research is part of the museum, founded in 2008 Research Centre of Earth Sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Byzantine Archaeology Mainz, tackling issues of a modern interdisciplinary exploration of the archaeological remains of the Byzantine Empire.

Research Departments

The RGZM has several departments and branch offices. In the castle in Mainz, the three departments are located:

  • Prehistory
  • Provincial Roman Archaeology
  • Early Middle Ages

These departments are several research areas assigned in Mainz, Museum of Ancient Shipbuilding:

  • Research Centre Ancient Shipbuilding

In Neuwied, Monrepos:

  • Monrepos, Archaeological Research Center and Museum of human behavior evolution

In Mayen:

  • Research area volcanology, archeology, art history (VAT)
  • Laboratory for Experimental Archaeology (LEA)

Temporary maintains the RGZM Expositur in China and Egypt.

Restoration Workshops

One focus of the work of RGZM is the processing of found objects, less in their own field work. The background to form the long-established and significant restoration workshops of the RGZM in which, among other things, the equipment of the glacier corpse "Ötzi " or the crafted brass boar has been edited by Soulac -sur -Mer. Here also conservators are trained - in the future as part of a BA- degree program, which is offered jointly with the University of Mainz. Together with the University of Mainz is a center of excellence " mineralogical Archaeometry and Conservation Research " formed.

Publications

The RGZM is editor of archaeological journals, from 2006 Quick in cooperation with the publishing house and Steiner Regensburg. The history of the publications dates back to the 19th-century (1852 ).

  • Archaeological Korrespondenzblatt
  • Corpus SIGNORUM Imperii Romani
  • Yearbook of the RGZM 1st year 1954 to the year 2011 appeared 58th 2012, ISSN 0076-2741
  • Catalogs of Prehistory and Early Historical Antiquities ( published in 2007 Volume 40 )
  • MOSAIC. Research on Roman-Germanic Central Museum (2013 appeared Volume 10 )
  • From 2008: Restoration and Archaeology ( magazine)
  • Meetings of the RGZM
  • Exhibition accompanying volumes
  • From 2009: Museum Guide

And numerous monographic publications and in future also a popular scientific publication series.

Exhibitions

  • Display collections of prehistoric, Roman and Early Middle Ages in the Electoral Palace in Mainz. These collections consist mainly of impressions and only to a small extent from the originals. This provides the museum with his material wealth a good overview of the prehistoric and early medieval cultures of Old Europe.
  • Museum of the Archaeology of the Ice Age
  • Museum of Ancient Shipbuilding
  • Volcano Park ( district of Mayen -Koblenz )

In addition, the RGZM involved in international exhibitions, but usually can not be shown in Mainz for reasons of space.

Ernst Sprockhoff Volcano Park, Mayen-Koblenz Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde
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