Hemmoorium – Erd- und frühgeschichtliches Museum Hemmoor

About the museum

The Hemmoorium was opened in January 1995 and is run by the Geschichts- und Heimatverein Hemmoor (local history association). It recalls that the town gave its name to a geological stage. When chalk was quarried for cement production, the large chalk pit, today's Kreidesee (chalk lake), exposed layers containing fossils and the so-called Hemmoor rock, in which the “Hemmoorer Kugeln” were found. The Hemmoor stage belongs to the Lower Miocene and dates back roughly 15 to 19 million years.

Besides geology, the museum shows how the area has been settled since the Old Stone Age. Sites include a Mesolithic flint-knapping site near Westersode, whose excavation in the late 1960s yielded tens of thousands of flint pieces, as well as burial mounds in the surroundings. The bronze buckets of the “Hemmoorer type” come from the Roman Imperial Period and were discovered in the chalk pit in 1892. Most pieces are held by the Landesmuseum Hannover, while Hemmoor displays one original and four replicas. The museum also has a copy of a Jupiter statuette from Warstade. A large flint from the local Upper Chalk is part of the exhibition as well.

Highlights

• Fossils and rock of the Hemmoor stage, including the “Hemmoorer Kugeln”
• Large flint from the Upper Chalk of Hemmoor
• Roman “Hemmoorer Eimer” buckets, as an original and as replicas
• Stone Age finds from the Westersode flint-knapping site
• Copy of the Jupiter bronze figurine from Warstade

Permanent exhibitions

• Erdgeschichte: Hemmoorstufe und Kreide – Fossils, rocks and flints from the former Hemmoor chalk pit tell of sea life and geological eras in northern Germany.
• Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Region – Stone Age finds, settlement remains and the Roman Hemmoorer buckets document the settlement and trade of the Germanic peoples on the lower Elbe.

Founded

1995

Operated by

Geschichts- und Heimatverein Hemmoor e.V.

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Navigation address: An der Pferdebahn 55, 21745 Hemmoor (Kulturdiele Hemmoor).

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