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International Symposium on Historical Architecture in our European Border Region |
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On Saturday May 20th, 2000, conservationists and
experts for historical architecture from all parts of
the European border region of Luxembourg, Lorraine, the Saarland and
Rhenania-Palatinate met in the Roscheider Hof. On the museum's first
symposium on historical house-building
in our region the speakers from three countries
gave a comprehensive account of the existing store of knowledge about rural as well
as urban architecture in our region.
At the same time the meeting offered the opportunity
for exchange about the common features as well as the differences of historical
house-types in the different parts of our region.
In the course of the symposium the profile of an architectural landscape with many
common traits evolved, which are largely independent of today's state frontiers and
confront conservationists with very similar tasks.
There was simultaneous translation of the lectures and discussions that were partly in French and partly in German, so that there was no language problem neither for the speakers nor for the participants. The symposium was sponsored by the European Union in the context of the LEADER II program. It is part of the museum's preparations for a new museum village consisting of reconstructed wine-growers' houses from the Saar-Mosel region. It is intended to unite buildings from Lorraine, Luxembourg, the Saarland and Rhenania-Palatinate in order to illustrate the common roots of Mosel-Franconian architecture. In a few days the results of the symposium will be published here on this website in German and French. Also, the contributions will be reproduced in a new volume of the museum's publication series that is to appear in the near future. You can download all articles (in German or French). Program
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| Opening by the director of the open air museum, Roscheider Hof,
Dr. Haas
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| Welcome address by the mayor of Konz, | Mr. Winfried Manns
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Dr. Werner Habicht, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken: | The agrarian landscape on both sides of the border between Lorraine and the Saarland
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Jacques Guillaume, Service régional de l`inventaire de Lorraine:
| The rural architecture on the Mosel in northern Lorraine
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Jean-Luc Mousset, Musée National d'Histoire et d' Art, Luxemburg:
| Parallels in the style of living - examples from the town and countryside of Luxembourg in the 17th and 18th century
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| Dr. h.c. Georges Calteux, Service des Sites et Monuments Nationaux, Luxemburg:
| The farmhouse in Luxembourg in the course of the past 500 years
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Michael Berens, Kreisdenkmalpflege des Landkreises Bitburg-Prüm:
| Farmhouses and "Stockgüter" - house types in the western Eifel
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Dr. Ewald Wegner, Landesamt für Denkmalflege, Mainz:
| House types in the district of Trier-Saarburg - an overview
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