The doers
Prof. Reinhard Roseneck (1950-2012)
Was the Scientific Director, the visionary and the initiator behind the Cistercian Museum Walkenried Monastery. He was also largely responsible for getting the Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System onto the UNESCO World Heritage List.
"Over decades and at great financial cost, the monastery was carefully restored in line with the latest conservation concepts and, through a consciously modern 'second layer', architecturally supplemented in those areas where the concept so required. Historical and modern architecture thus mutually highlight and complement one another.
The historic monastery – that authentic site –, whose enclosure (seclusion area) with its famous double-naved cloister is so uniquely well-maintained, is experienced by the visitors in a way developed specifically for Walkenried, one that does not spoil the character of the almost 900-year-old location through the use of conventional exhibition forms. Instead, in this part of the museum the visitors are accompanied by abstract design elements, each interpreting its specific location and simultaneously transmitting fundamental knowledge about it, by audio guides that provide more in-depth information without being visually intrusive, as well as by repeated citations from the Rule of Saint Benedict.
In the restored enclosure (seclusion area), accessible to visitors for the first time and including the abbot's building with its several storeys and its 'morbid' fascination, the latrine, through which water used to flow, the monks' dormitory stretching across the entire east wing, and the upper floor of the whole north wing, the life and works of the 'White Company' of the Walkenried Cistercians are comprehensively rendered in an exhibition that is both creative and sensual."
Reinhard Roseneck
MUSEUM MANAGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION
District of Göttingen
Overall management
Baudirektor Günter Jentsch
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Roseneck †
EXHIBITION
Exhibition concept
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Roseneck †, Braunschweig / Wolfenbüttel
Ortrud Krause, Braunschweig
Dr. Brigitte Moritz, Goslar
Exhibition architecture
Kleineberg Architekten und Ingenieure, Braunschweig
Uwe Kleineberg
Axel Pohl
Bert Härtl
Ralf Schönhoff
Graphic design / Media composition
Hinz & Kunst, Braunschweig
Peter Wentzler
Floyd Arnold
Martin Chall
Dirk Laube
Building research
Working Group Historic Town Centre
Dipl.-Ing. Dieter Haupt, Wolfenbüttel
Ground-penetrating radar
Dr. Harald von der Osten-Woldenburg, Esslingen am Neckar
Illustrations for children
Manfred Tekla †, painter and graphic artist, Friedrichswalde
Digital landscape model
Thomas Krüger, Quomodo.medien, Reutlingen
Building archaeology
Dr. Stefan Flindt, District of Osterode am Harz
Archaeological surveying
Federal Military University Munich, Faculty for Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. Rainer S. Elkar
Dr. Matthias Steinbrink
Computer animation
Dipl.-Designer Michael Schütze, Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Model building
Modellbau Sindl, Apelnstedt
Henning Sindl
Media technology
VST GmbH, Saalfeld
Axel Starzonek
Audiotechnik und Elektronik, Liebenburg
Holger Schütte
Audio guide for adults
iGuide Kulturaufnahme GmbH, Großkochberg
Sebastian von Sauter
Lutz Baitinger
Alberto Laisse
Sigrid Rauterberg
Speakers:
Uta Krause
Peter Prautsch
Tobias Schulze
Audio guide for children
Kulturaufnahme MV GmbH, Erfurt
Speakers:
Peter Rauch
Johannes Gabriel
Gritt Stephan
Restoration
Wolfgang Konrad-Falz, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover
Stefan von der Trenck, Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, Wolfenbüttel
Specialist consultancy, exhibition
Dr. Lothar Klappauf, State Office for Historic Monuments of Lower Saxony, Mining Archaeology, Goslar
Fritz Reinboth, Braunschweig, Verein für Heimatgeschichte Walkenried und Umgebung e. V.
Dr. Markus Blaich, State Office for Historic Monuments and Archaeology of Saxony Anhalt, Halle (Saale)
Dr. Wolf-Dieter Steinmetz, Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, Wolfenbüttel
Dr. Josef Dolle, Braunschweig
Klaus Harenberg, State Office for Historic Monuments of Lower Saxony, Hanover
Klaus Lübbe, fisheries expert, Braunschweig-Riddagshausen
Heiner Lindemann, Minden
ARCHITECTURE
Building owner and constructor representation, District of Göttingen
(previously District of Osterode am Harz)
Günter Jentsch
Klaus-Dieter Siemon
Christian Lehmann
Architecture and monument restoration
Kleineberg Architekten und Ingenieure, Braunschweig
Uwe Kleineberg
Axel Pohl
Bert Härtl
Ralf Schönhoff
Statics consultancy and planning
Büro für Bauwesen, Sicherung und Sanierung historischer Bauten, Bonn
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Hempel
Operating technology
Staatliches Baumanagement Südniedersachsen, Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Heinz Weitemeyer
Planning of media technology
b.i.g. Bechtold Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Weimar
Dirk Liebheit
Fire safety concept
HHP Nord/Ost Beratende Ingenieure GmbH, Braunschweig
Dr. Rüdiger Hass