Ore smelting as the Celts

A weekend to try a mining historian and a group of blacksmiths in the Celtic Village Landersdorf at Thalmaessing, ore to melt - as the Celts 2,500 years ago. Whether it will succeed?


Exciting experiment: ore smelting as the Celts in Thalmaessing

Mining historian Arthur Rosenbauer, locksmith Günter Mainka and a few friends plunge into a suspense experiment with primitive, built celtic Design clay ovens they want to win wrought-grade iron - as the Celts had.Weil once made the Celts left no written records, you can her trace metal knowledge today only by appropriate tests.


"You just hope that everything works Where do we go -.!, We do not know"
Günter Mainka, locksmith

Günter Mainka and Arthur Rosenbauer.
For the amateur researchers, it is a roller coaster of emotions - fear and hope are available for them during the day-long experiment close together. The Celts have the metal extraction once mastered perfectly. They were also masters of metal fabrication, forged iron ornaments, extractive metallurgy, weapons and tools that were traded throughout Europe.

"The Celts have been underestimated for a long time, because the Romans had them labeled as barbaric."
Arthur Rosenbauer, mining historian
In the Franconian Jura Natural Park Altmühltherme around the park there are plenty of different forms of iron ore. The so-called 'Bohnerz' little red-black lumps of ore, one still finds in abundance in the fields - as well as the remains of the thriving ore mining: mines, dumps, shafts run through the forests of the region.

"This area was covered with kilns, was melted and forged everywhere. Ruhr It was a type of Celtic."
Arthur Rosenbauer, mining historian
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In the living history village Landersdorf visitors learn firsthand how our ancestors lived.