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Dr. Markus Herbener

Herbener


Project management

Soil and cultural monuments in the forest as a protected asset of forestry - imparting knowledge in theory and practice

 

Chair of Forest and Forestry History

Tennenbacher Str. 4
79106 Freiburg

Phone: 0761 / 203 - 8490

E-mail:

 

Research foci

  • Forestry, mining, resource - and environmental history
  • Monuments and forestry practice-related monument protection in the forest
  • Cultural landscape history and landscape development
  • Environmental perception based on landscape and environmental factors
  • Social perception of hunting throughout history
  • Creative forms of knowledge transfer

Projects

  • Project management of soil and cultural monuments in the forest as a protected asset in forestry - knowledge transfer in theory and practice (Eva Mayr-Stihl Foundation project) (status ongoing)
  • Monuments in the forest in research and teaching/in cooperation with the State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg/Archaeological Monument Preservation Department (in perpetuum)
  •  Prehistoric monuments in the forest areas around the Belchen (Black Forest) (completed in 2023)
  •  The Adventures of Alex and Bioman – a comic story about the bioeconomy (completed 2021)
  • Forestry practical concepts for the Celtic monuments Heuneburg (Hundersingen), Princely Grave Hill Hohmichele (Altheim) and Old Castle (Langenenslingen) - forest-related monument protection in cooperation with the Baden-Württemberg State Office for Monument Preservation (completed in 2018)

Soil and cultural monuments in the forest as a protected asset of forestry - imparting knowledge in theory and practice

Eva Mayr-Stihl Foundation Project

In addition to its high ecological, economic and social value (recreation and leisure space for people), the forest in Baden-Württemberg is an untapped archive of bygone eras. A large number of the approximately 60,000 known cultural and archaeological monuments in Baden-Württemberg are located in forest areas. Due to the fact that 39% of the country's area is forested, it can be assumed that there are also a large number of undiscovered monuments in the forests. In this context, the Black Forest natural area in particular, with its approximately 365.000 hectares of forest areas, represents a high and scientifically interesting potential for unexplored cultural and archaeological monuments. Settlement relics, contemporary evidence of proto- and early industries - especially silver and colored ore mining - and other relics of the human life and work, can be found very often in today's forest sites and in forest floors.

Previous studies show the great need for a forward-looking and active adaptation of forestry in the sense of forest monument protection, which takes into account different but interrelated factors in the forestry processes.

This is exactly where the planned project “Soil and cultural monuments in the forest as protected forestry assets” comes into play. Using selected examples found in the forests of Baden-Württemberg, it first shows how unknown monuments are recognized in the forest. “Recognition is necessary as knowledge” in order to secure and preserve cultural assets for future generations through appropriate forest protection measures.

The planned project therefore counteracts the “Argumentum e silentio” regarding the existence and necessary protection of unknown monuments in Baden-Württemberg's forest areas.

 

Project management: Dr. Markus Herbener

Start: December 1st, 2022

Funded by: Eva Mayr-Stihl Foundation