The team of the Research Centre for Manors in the Baltic Sea Region cordially invites to the concluding conference after three years of project duration to present and discuss its research results.
For centuries, the Baltic Sea region has been the nucleus in Europe in which complex political, historical and cultural relations between the neighbouring states were formed. Like an archive, these exchange processes are documented in the cultural heritage of the Baltic Sea region. As nodal points in rural areas, the manor houses existing in all the countries of the Baltic Sea region form a collective memory of the region. For this reason, manor houses are an ideal object of research that also enables transdisciplinary questions to be answered.
These considerations led to the approval of the research project Research Centre for Manors in the Baltic Sea Region in 2021, which is funded in equal parts by the Ministry of Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
The research project is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of selected manor houses and their estates from the 18th century. The objects, which are spread across the entire Baltic Sea region, are being researched from a transnational perspective, primarily with regard to architectural, artistic and garden-historical issues. In addition, computer-aided research methods and the inclusion of digital humanities tools will open up new approaches to manor house research. The final conference will explicitly focus on this combination of humanities and digital knowledge acquisition and discuss the resulting opportunities and new research perspectives.
The following sections are planned:
- In focus: Architecture of manor houses and estates
- Interior worlds: Interiors and collections
- Outdoor worlds: Gardens, parks and estate landscapes
- Connecting! Thematic fields of manor house research
- Manor house research and AI
All sections will be introduced with a 10-minute report on the research findings of the Manor House Centre. This will be followed by specialist presentations by invited speakers, focussing on the 18th century.
Registration
Registration is closed. Other interested participants are welcome to join the conference online.
Provisional programme, subject to change
23.10.2024: Pommersches Landesmuseum
Rakower Str. 9, 17489 Greifswald
14:45 | Welcome / Check in with snack
15:15 | Welcoming speech Ruth Slenczka, Direktorin Pommersches Landesmuseum Greifswald
15:25 | Welcoming speech Frau Martin, Minister for Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
15:35 | Welcoming speech Katharina Riedel, Rector University of Greifswald
15:45 | Welcoming speech Kilian Heck, Project management
16:00 | Research Centre for Manors in the Baltic Sea Region project report, results and questions – Team Research Centre
17:00 | Break
17:15 | Keynote: Architekturzeichnungen als Referenzsystem für internationale und regionale Verflechtungen im 18. Jahrhundert: Die Plansammlung der Herzöge von Mecklenburg-Schwerin – Elisabeth Kieven (Rom)
19:00 | Evening snack at Pommersches Landesmuseum Greifswald
24.10.: Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg
Martin-Luther-Straße 14, 17489 Greifswald
09:00 | Welcoming speech Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg – Christian Suhm
Section 1 - In focus: Architecture of manor houses and estates
09:15 | Impulse Architecturer – Kilian Heck
09:30 | Herrenhaus Borstel – Architektur ohne Architekten – Deert Lafrenz (Kiel)
10:00 | «[...] so daß denen Maurern- und Zimmerleuten anders nichts als die blosse Execution des ihnen vorgelegten Desseins, Grund und Aufrisses zu besorgen überbleibet.» Die Rolle der Bauherren bei der Entstehung eines neuen Herrenhauses im Ostseeraum des späten 17. und 18. Jahrhundertsine – Sabine Bock (Schwerin)
10:30 | Herrenhaus Schwirsen/Świerzno - ein frühes Beispiel einer Anlage "entre cour et jardin" in Hinterpommern – Arne Franke (Berlin)
11:00 | Break
Section 2 - Interior worlds: Interiors and collections
11:30 | Impulse Interior worlds – Thomas Wilke / Julia Jauch
11:45 | Building the Collection of the Rundāle Palace Museum – Laura Lūse (Rundale)
12:15 | The “Chapel” that isn’t a Chapel. Investigation and conservation of Kolga Manor hall(s) – Hilkka Hiiop (Tallinn)
12:45 | Kungliga Museum at the Royal Palace in Stockholm – A Digital Reconstruction – Johan Ericsson (Uppsala)
13:15 | Break
Section 3 - Outdoor Worlds: Gardens, parks and estates
14:45 | Impulse Outdoor Worlds – Ulrike Gawlik / Carsten Berger
15:00 | «Le spectacle de la nature». Gärten, Zierfarm und Konzepte der Landesverschönerung im 18. Jahrhundert – Iris Lauterbach (München)
15:30 | Zwischen Restaurierung, Rekonstruktion oder denkmalgebundener Neuinterpretation – der barocke Garten von Plüschow – Caroline Rolka (Neubrandenburg)
16:00 | Break
16:30 | Drone Technology to Preserve Historic Heritage: Lesson Learnt from Erasmus + Project Drone4HER – Cinzia Laurelli (Collodi), online
17:00 | Visualising the invisible: archaeogeophysical research at manor houses in the Baltic Sea Region – Klaus Löckner (Wien)
17:30 | Discussion
19:00 | Conference dinner for speakers only
25.10. Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg
Martin-Luther-Straße 14, 17489 Greifswald
Section 4 - Manor house research interdisciplinary
09:30 | Impulse Manor house research interdisciplinary – MarionMüller / Ulrike Ide
09:45 | «Tout Vienne me riait». Adelige und höfische Netzwerke in den Memoiren der Gräfin Schwerin (1684–1731) – Joëlle Weis (Trier) (CANCELED!)
10:15 | Servants` living standard and material culture in the transition from a feudal to a capitalistic economy, Sweden, 1730 to 1870 – Göran Ulväng (Uppsala)
10:45 | Break
11:15 | Schlossbau und Bädertourismus. Das Rittergut Jebenhausen im 18. Jahrhundert – Daniel Menning (Tübingen)
11:45 | Digitalisierung und 3D Dokumentation von Herrenhäusern und deren Umgebungen – Immo Trinks (Wien)
12:15 | Break
Section 5 - Manor house research and AI
13:45 | Impulse Manor house research and AI – Ina Blümel / Maria Mischke
14:00 | Geometry, Semantics and 3D Point Clouds – Florent Poux (Liège), online
14:30 | Semantische Annotation 4Culture: Integration eines 3D-Modell-Viewers, eines Triple-Stores und einer kollaborativen Wiki-Präsentationsumgebung – Kolja Bailly (Hannover), online
15:00 | Manor house research in the future: a vision and conclusion - Torsten Veit (Greifswald)
15:30 | Break
15:45 | Final discussion
19:00 | Dinner (self-paying with advance booking)
26.10. Excursion (with advance booking)
Time: 9:00–16:00