Hedeby Viking Museum

Open-air museum and reconstruction

Meanwhile, one is with the study of early medieval market place so far advanced that it was decided, for the 20th anniversary of the Museum a part of the city and the port facility reconstructed in its original place again build. The reconstructed buildings are located about 1.4 km from the museum in the middle of the semicircular rampart close to the shore and can be reached via a footpath.

In preparing virtual 3-D reconstructions were made with the computer -intensive. There were seven houses, of which parts were found and excavated, rebuilt, plus the typical Boardwalks in the form of old wooden bridges and a pier, a paved creek and jetty.

Since you could have been drowned in addition to about 12,000 single finds of wood residues and whole Flechtwände and rafters, the fallen in the mud, mountains, it was possible, even the height of the building constructions and their roof pitch and other details to be reconstructed.