HISTORY

KASSEL (GER) 2002

During the excavation work for the foundation of the new finance center at the Altmarkt in Kassel in 2007 pottery shards and wall remains of an approximately 5400 years old neolithic settlement of the Wartberg Culture were uncovered.
The archeological excavations of the earliest settlement finds in Kassel was headed by the archaelogist Dr. Jürgen Kneipp were for unexplicable reasons stopped by the Provincial Authority Building with police assistance. The archaeological excavations of archaeological teams were at that time not yet been completed.
A Kassel company for excavation has the archaeological field removed and disposed on the soil depot Habichtswald. The archaeological investigation of more than 5,000 years old settlement history of Kassel was unfounded due to financial and political interests.

HISTORY, 2012 (Kasseler Kunstverein, Installation view)
The exhibiton at Kassel Kunstverein was showing a shard of a neolitic settlement located at Kassel Altmarkt, excavation documents and photographs to where the shard was uncovered (today parking of the North Hessian financial center) and the soil depot in Habichtswald where the excavation site was disposed.

Shard of a neolitic settlement located at Kassel Altmarkt

Location of the pottery shard, Altmarkt 1, Kassel
Today: Underground parking garage, Kassel tax office

Recultivated Habichtswald landfill, Kassel, 2012
After completion of the archaeological excavation at the Altmarkt, the excavation field was disposed of at the Habichtswald landfill in 2007.

Clay target shooting in the show