The Research Project

The interdisciplinary team of the research project “Development of an interdisciplinary, digital communication system for the research and visualisation of settlements using the example of the medieval deserted village of Marsleben” works in different locations. Lead by the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, the team develops and realises methods for the research, reconstruction and presentation of deserted settlements and their hinterland.

The digital communication and presentation system will be evaluated using the example of the medieval deserted settlement of Marsleben. The site was excavated ahead of road constructions by the project partner and Archaeological Heritage Board Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt.

The communication platform will enable an interdisciplinary knowledge exchange of the project participants on a digital basis. Contemporaneously, the broader public shall be able to participate on each of the partial results of the research project.

The enterprises Quedlinburg Tourism Marketing Ltd and the Workshop for Heritage Care Ltd Quedlinburg support the research project as regional and supra-regional active commercial partners. The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus will provide scientific advises to the team. The technical programming will be realised by Dr. Frank Dießenbacher und Mark Tewissen.

The research project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the project executing organisation German Federation of Industrial Research Associations "Otto von Guericke" between September 2005 and August 2008.