Description

As early as the 1930s, extensive archaeological investigations were carried out by Prof. Dr. Heinrich Richter carried out on the Glauberg plateau. In the course of the investigations by Hesse ARCHEOLOGY and our research center in recent years, the few documents that survived the Second World War were digitized and recorded by Prof. Richter (most of them were unfortunately burned towards the end of the war). A majority of them are photos. Most of them show more or less easily assignable finding situations, but some also illustrate very nicely the excavation technology and the excavation process in the 1930s. One little-known fact, for example, is that a trolley railway was set up on the Glauberg to remove the excavated material, for example from the row of cellars that was completely excavated at the time. The wagons had to be pulled up the steep Glauberg with the help of donkeys and then put into operation "by hand" on the rails. Donkeys appear again and again as pack animals in the photos, for example when transporting water to the plateau.