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After a Roman drink of wine, the participants will find out which lighting the Romans used to bring light into the darkness of the evenings and nights. Afterwards you will experience the fort in the dark on your tour, with special objects appearing impressively from the dark - please bring a flashlight.

Nutrition in the Time of Pile Dwellings - A Family Trail

What was important for survival in the Stone Age? What food did nature provide? What animals were there and what had to be grown?

Apple, rye, autumn fun

At the beginning of the golden autumn, the open-air museum invites you to a colorful festival. On the village square there is fruit from the museum gardens, Düppeler honey and much more. Find out everything about the variety of apples at the variety show and bring your own to be determined by the fruit arborist.

Autumn mood in Haithabu - the Vikings are preparing for the quiet season. They do small manual jobs around the open hearth. With great skill, the woodcarver Reinhard Erichsen creates smaller and larger objects for everyday use: knife handles, spoons, children's toys and wooden needles for proce

Under expert guidance, the participants make a wooden round sign with a diameter of 80 cm step by step. After the surface of the shield has been sanded, the edges are covered with cowhide. Ash wood handles are attached to the back and a hand-forged hump

The hunting weekend is a real highlight on the site near the Viking houses. The fact that the settlers from Haithabu also went hunting is proven by the slaughterhouse waste recovered by archaeologists from the port of Haithabu: Bones of red deer, wild boar and roe deer were found. In addition to meat, hides, antlers and sinews were coveted raw materials that were processed into numerous objects

There is ample evidence that different women from different backgrounds had a special relationship with Lorsch Abbey. As empress, queen, noblewoman, nun or farmer, these women left their mark on the Lorsch monastery.  They appear in the historical sourc

Forge a historic fire bat at the Lauresham Open Air Laboratory and learn how to use it to start a fire. The exciting workshop also includes a short introduction to forging technology and the history of the blacksmith's trade.

This workshop offers interested parties an introduction to the historical blacksmith trade both in theory and in practice. The aim of the course is to produce the first smaller forgings after having learned the basic skills.<

Women and textile production in the early Middle Ages

Textiles played a central role in early medieval society. They were legible signs of social, cultural and religious affiliation, precious gifts and part of the family fortune. The production of the precious fabrics was exclusively in the