Wie viel „falsch“ ist noch „echt“? Überlegungen zum Umgang mit mittelalterlichen Burgruinen anhand von Beispielen in der Schweiz

Abstract

Proceeding from the question „How much ‘wrong’ is still ‘real’?“, which concerns  the principle question oft the care of monuments, will be discussed the question  about handling with archaeological monuments by the example of castle ruins. It is demonstrated, that on the one hand the historical substance and with it the   authenticity of the monuments must be preserved and, on the other hand, the monuments should be processed for the general public and be made available to her as illustrative objects to the understanding of her history. While  archaeologists and conservators of the monuments are obligated to the preservation of the historical substance, the public, for which the authenticity of the objects plays often hardly a role, wishes itself a profi t of experience values,  hich often cannot be brought together in cover. On the basis of examples it is  demonstrated that the border between „real“ and „false“ dissolves and the  „wrong“ often is necessary to show the historical „real“. While the “real” of an monument is to be preserved absolutely as for a long time as possible – whereby its decay is not to stop fi nally, only to be slowed down – the “wrong” however can make sense to support the historical statement of a monument.