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Municipality of Glauburg – Flashlight Issue 9/2024
The Glauberg and its surroundings - an important archaeological monument and one of the best-known archaeological sites in Hesse. Here, the past can be "touched with your hands" in many places - not only in the Celtic World Museum on the Glauberg. No wonder that some people might get the idea of searching for artefacts at this site on their own - usually with a metal probe and spade. This causes great damage to our archaeological cultural heritage: finds that have been dug up are almost
always suppressed, and the context of the finds, which is so important for their understanding, irretrievably destroyed.
There is a clear legal situation in Hesse regarding this (Hessian Monument Protection Act).
The search for archaeological finds (we speak of "investigations") is always subject to authorisation. And this applies in principle to all finds, regardless of their age. All finds must also be reported. Authorisations for legal research can be applied for from the Hesse State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments (LfDH). Information on this can be found at https://denkmal.hessen.de/hessenarchaeologie/nachforschungs-genehmigungen.
Special rules apply to the Glauberg and its surroundings. The use of metal probes and the recovery of finds are exceptions here, which are only possible in close coordination with hessenARCHÄOLOGIE at the LfDH. We ask for your help here: If you notice people searching for artefacts with metal probes on the Glauberg, please call the Museum (+496041/82330-0) or the State Office for Monument Preservation in Wiesbaden (+49611-6906-0) and let us know – it is safer and better than intervening yourself. Unauthorized investigations are administrative offenses or even criminal offenses.
Please help to protect all of our archaeological monuments from being plundered!