Changing Bog Landscape
Annual exhibition 2002 of the Museum of prehistory of Dithmarschen
at Heide (Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)       In Deutsch
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START – Survey over the exhibition themes: This survey with title row (if missing) 'Bog land' Dithmarschen – still 123 sq km peat bogs around 1790 Bog remains today: Reeds, ponds, shrubs and one sq km raised mire Peat land formerly and today Useful peat and new fields: The 'White Bog' while exploitation Watching while cutting peat in the 'White Bog' around 1905 and around 1930 Baking peat: Briquettes made of worthless peat mud  Watching while peat baking (Süderholm bog around 1930) Peat Baking Company: Revival of forgotten work Idioms and words in Lower German (partly not translatable) A lake becomes a bog (1) A lake becomes a bog (2) Here raised mires, there intermediate bogs, there fens Life of raised mires: A natural poorhouse Reeds and swamp forests: Life in the fens Hard work for better research: A pollen diagram Ditch fortifications and bog tracks: Bogs as borders and barriers Roman coins in a peat turf: Finds in and under the bogs Bog and swamp: Reservoir of raw materials Optimal at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 Pixels. A disadvantage of this presentation could be the fact that the exhibition posters with the German texts are shown as bitmaps. It results in some waiting times if you have a slow internet connection. Clicking on the poster texts, you get English explanations in form of text that can be copied and printed as usual. Acknowledgments, sources, loans, and thanks (in German language) A glimpse into the exhibition (was until 10 /  2002 at Heide) © Volker Arnold, last changes: