Hitzacker Archaeological Centre

The Archaeological Center Hitzacker is an archaeological open-air museum in Hitzacker in Lower Saxony. The focus of the museum is on the presentation of Bronze Age settlement ways.

The museum includes three reconstructed Wohnstallhaus houses ( longhouses ), a dead hut and a pit house, as evidenced from the local archaeological finds. The houses are supplemented by various institutions of domestic and craft everyday. One of the longhouses houses an exhibition of the most important areas of life of the Bronze Age 3,000 years ago. The museum offers visitors a wide range of historical actions such as bronze casting, baking bread, fire hitting, spinning or weaving, and modern hands-on activities and experimentation.

1969, made ​​the first archaeological finds of pottery shards and house floor plans with construction work on Hitzacker lake. Only in 1987 began scheduled archaeological excavations on the site, since the further expansion of the lake and a national highway endangered archaeological monuments. The following years provided further finds and house floor plans. In 1990, the Archaeological Center Hitzacker was, because of the importance of these findings, established as an open air museum. The museum was supervised eV by the county archeology Lüchow -Dannenberg and the Friends Archaeological Center Hitzacker. Since 2006, it is administered by the city Hitzacker ( Elbe. )

The Open Air Museum is a recognized by the City of Hitzacker venue for civil wedding ceremonies, accompanied by the Museum with a program.