Papers by Maik-Jens Springmann
Archaeonautica 21, 2021
Many dendrochronological analyses of shipwrecks in Europe indicate that timber from Prussia was u... more Many dendrochronological analyses of shipwrecks in Europe indicate that timber from Prussia was used for shipbuilding far from its point of origin. This suggests that the export of timber for shipbuilding to Western Europe was very important, especially in a period from the 14 th to the 17 th century. But how can we identify such products and in what quality and quantity were they shipped? This short paper and the Timber Project at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark try to provide some answers.
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Archaeonautica 21, 2021
Many dendrochronological analyses of shipwrecks in Europe indicate that timber from Prussia was u... more Many dendrochronological analyses of shipwrecks in Europe indicate that timber from Prussia was used for shipbuilding far from its point of origin. This suggests that the export of timber for shipbuilding to Western Europe was very important, especially in a period from the 14 th to the 17 th century. But how can we identify such products and in what quality and quantity were they shipped? This short paper and the Timber Project at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark try to provide some answers.
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Ausgrabungen und Funde 39, 1994
Describing the first excavation work on a probably 16th century wreck at the coast of the island ... more Describing the first excavation work on a probably 16th century wreck at the coast of the island Hiddensee, Germany in 1994.
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Mariner's Mirror, 2020
The article discuss in an overview the tremendous changes in shipbuilding and seafaring in Northe... more The article discuss in an overview the tremendous changes in shipbuilding and seafaring in Northern Europe against the backdrop of a ship model from 1503.
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Ethnologisch-Archäologische Zeitung, 2003
Describing the maritime Inventarisation of the Curonian and the Vistula Lagoon
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Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv 26, 2003
Einführung Bezog sich die ergologische Merkmalsanalyse von mittelalterlichen Seefahrzeugen vor de... more Einführung Bezog sich die ergologische Merkmalsanalyse von mittelalterlichen Seefahrzeugen vor der Ent-deckung des Bremer Schiffsfundes im Jahr 1962 vorrangig auf die Analyse von Bildquellen 1 , so rückte nach der Publikation von Werner Lahn die archäologische Expertise der materiellen Hin-terlassenschaften in den Vordergrund. 2 Die Aufnahme von Lahn in Übereinstimmung mit der Quellenkritik von Paul Heinsius 3 zu typischen Koggemerkmalen machte nicht nur viele Kompi-lationen zur Kogge, die sich insbesondere auf die Auswertung von Bildmaterial und anderweiti-gen Darstellungen kaprizierten, zu Makulatur. Der Schiffsfund zeigte durch seinen bis dato unvergleichlichen Erhaltungszustand vielmehr unwiderlegbar, wie eine Kogge aussah: Gerade, steile Steven, flacher kraweelbeplankter Boden in der Schiffsmitte, durchbalktes Schiff etc., dies deckte sich gut mit Überlieferungen aus der Dortrechter Zollrolle 4 und einer magna navis trabe-ata aus der Dammer Zollrolle. 5 Das »Einheitsschiff« der Hanse, welches wir über einen Zeitraum von fast 600 Jahren 6 in den Archivalien nachweisen können, war entdeckt! Das prägte künftige Zuordnungen nachhaltig: Ansätze, die regionale Spezifika aufzeigten 7 , erregten nicht die Beach-tung der in Schiffstypen denkenden Forscherkreise, oder sie wurden gleich wieder anderen Schiffstypen zuerkannt. 8 Doch erinnern wir uns, wenn es auch oft unterschlagen wurde: Zumin-dest die Dammer Zollrolle (1252) spricht von navis qu(a)e habet lose boynghe 9 , also von einem Schiff, das nicht fest durchbalkt war. Einige Schiffe dieser Bauweise vermuten wir auch auf Sie-geldarstellungen und im archäologischen Fundgut. 10 War also die Kogge doch nicht so einheitlich beschaffen, oder ist hier gar von anderen Schiffen die Rede? Eine neue Diskussion Wenn wir uns im Folgenden auf das Aussehen insbesondere von Schiffen des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit konzentrieren, bildet die Einordnung von Wesensmerkmalen im Schiff-bau des Mittelalters eine maßgebliche Voraussetzung, um Entwicklungslinien und deren geo-graphische Ursprünge aufzuzeigen. Dieser Argumentation steht auch Maarlevelds Überlegung von einer unsteten Entwicklung im Schiffbau nicht im Wege. 11 Seit seinem Beitrag aus dem Jahr 1995 scheint mir eine Diskussion begonnen zu haben, die zu verfolgen erfreulich ist, schafft sie uns doch in methodischer Hinsicht wieder mehr interpretativen Freiraum. Daß sich deutsche Wissenschaftler an dieser Diskussion einschlägig beteiligen 12 , ist besonders wünschenswert, da QUELLENKUNDË MAIK-JENS SPRINGMANN Neue spätmittelalterliche und frühneuzeitliche Schiffsdarstellungen Ein Beitrag zur ergologischen Merkmalsanalyse in der Schiffstypologie
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CCC Papers Lübeck Style? Novgorod Style, 2001
Describing the historical background and the archaeological work of the sea harbor of Sventoji, H... more Describing the historical background and the archaeological work of the sea harbor of Sventoji, Heiligen Aa in Lithuania
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Wismarer Beiträge, 2020
Packetshipconnection from Wismar to Copenhagen and her paddle steamers included the early discove... more Packetshipconnection from Wismar to Copenhagen and her paddle steamers included the early discovered wreck of the Paddlesteamer Friedrich Franz II sank 1849.
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Opus Opificem Probat, 2018
The Schlüsselfeld ship model from 1503, Nürnberg, is the focus of profound changes in shipping an... more The Schlüsselfeld ship model from 1503, Nürnberg, is the focus of profound changes in shipping and seafaring on the eve of early modern times in northern Europe. 1 Prologue Several times in my professional career I have certainly been impressed by a person's deep knowledge; or colleagues have inspired me with their representational skills, impressed me through their management capabilities or their morality, their political attitude, their social competence, their understatement, their philanthropic and friendly charisma. But until now I had never met a person who combines all that in one. My friend Jerzy Litwin is such a person and because of that he has influenced me very much and has always been a sort of paragon for me. Despite the social disparity, he the important Director of a national museum, I the petty scientist, I have never felt that this was relevant in our long and continuous friendship. In all of these 25 years of cooperation, two people met each other on the basis of sympathy and enthusiasm, what job we did was never of importance. I have had the chance to benefit from Jerzy Litwin's numerous talents. One which certainly not all people know of is that of a ship model builder. As we see in the article by Dieter Matysik in this volume, he was the person playing a significant role in the team of the international ship model association Naviga. In this group of enthusiasts he always tries to raise interest in the historical templates of boat and ship model building. He sees models as a tool to help answer open questions in historical shipbuilding. His "model interpretation" of the seal of Elbing from 1350 is a good example of this. The huge model of the PETER VON DANZIG, which is still exhibited in the museum hall, shows his expertise in that field too, especially with how much knowledge of historical ship construction he brought to the building of this model. 2 He is not a person to work in private. Jerzy always tried to share his fascination with other friends and colleagues. Therefore the Department of Ship Model Building at the NMM is probably one of the best official bodies in that field. Of course, with his intention to build a model to answer historical questions Jerzy is not alone. There are a variety of directions which model builders could follow to address open questions about the past. We can recognize a long tradition in that way. In his study of early 15 th century carvels, Friedrich Jorberg built a research model to try to find out how much living space seamen had aboard ships in those times 3. Harry Alopäus took a completely different route to building ship models after diving to shipwrecks to find a better understanding of the situation underwater, using models as a helpful tool while interpreting the construction of the remains of a wreck long before 3-D imaging tools made it easier. Because of his intensive studies in creating models, Dick Steffy, originally an electrician, became one of 1 I am very grateful to Richard Barker who not only revised the English text, but also discussed with me details of shipbuilding and seafaring of this interesting period.
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Hansische Geschichtsblätter, Hansische Umschau, 2015
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Hansische Geschichtsblätter, Hansische Umschau, 2015
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Schriften des Schiffahrtsmuseums der Hansestadt Rostock, 1998
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ISBSA Venice, 2003
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Historical Boat and Ship replicas: Conference Proceedings on the scientific perspectives and the limits of Boat and Ship Replicas., 2008
The Ukranenland – Historische Werkstätten
e.V.1 in Torgelow Germany planned to build a
cog which ... more The Ukranenland – Historische Werkstätten
e.V.1 in Torgelow Germany planned to build a
cog which reflects the shipping and seafaring at
Medieval ages embedded in a regional perspective.
Due to the fact that most of the people only
know the Hanseatic League reflected in the history
of Hanseatic towns like Lübeck, Hamburg
and Bremen, the maritime determinations of
smaller Hanseatic towns like Anklam and
Demmin (neighbour towns of Torgelow) are not
well known. To find a cog shape which reflects
this regional perspective was one of the main
tasks when preparing the project.
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Historical Boat and Ship replicas: Conference Proceedings on the scientific perspectives and the limits of Boat and Ship Replicas., 2008
When reading publications about replicas - you
find examples in this volume and in other scientif... more When reading publications about replicas - you
find examples in this volume and in other scientific
proceedings1 - you will certainly find
answers to the question what kind of project can
be considered as a real replica project. To summarize
the different intentions shortly: If one
wished to apply the same techniques and technologies
for the replica as they were used when
building the original ship as well as the same
seamanship if there is still enough money left to
do so. Apart from the fact that no copyright or,
to say it better, copyrule can be defined when
teaching history (as archaeologist), the copying
of technology, technique and seamanship are
three aspects of the replica discussion – another
one is the use of “historic material”
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Historical Boat and Ship Replicas: Conference Proceedings on the scientific perspectives and the limits of Boat and Ship Replicas, 2008
What connected our idea of organising a conference
about Replicas with the main intentions
of Sha... more What connected our idea of organising a conference
about Replicas with the main intentions
of Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet?
It might be more than one would expect!
Hamlets focus on society, his focus on social
hierarchy1 as a sort of symbolism of human society
has an equivalent in philosophy, reflecting
basic perspective of the time - more or less in
connection with Hamlet –, an analyses of men
and of the universe.
Hawking, the famous philosopher in his wheelchair,
turned this into the cardinal allegory of
his ideas. He took Hamlets nutshellkingdom as
some sort of laboratory, a basis of his physicphilosophic
analyses.
If he would allowed to launch this nutshellkingdom
into the water – a nutshell could be a perfect
boat for every insects we suppose, even if some
ship owners wouldn’t smile if we speak about
nutshells, boats and ships – we would have a
perfect laboratory for studying society from a
microcosmic perspective.
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Papers by Maik-Jens Springmann
e.V.1 in Torgelow Germany planned to build a
cog which reflects the shipping and seafaring at
Medieval ages embedded in a regional perspective.
Due to the fact that most of the people only
know the Hanseatic League reflected in the history
of Hanseatic towns like Lübeck, Hamburg
and Bremen, the maritime determinations of
smaller Hanseatic towns like Anklam and
Demmin (neighbour towns of Torgelow) are not
well known. To find a cog shape which reflects
this regional perspective was one of the main
tasks when preparing the project.
find examples in this volume and in other scientific
proceedings1 - you will certainly find
answers to the question what kind of project can
be considered as a real replica project. To summarize
the different intentions shortly: If one
wished to apply the same techniques and technologies
for the replica as they were used when
building the original ship as well as the same
seamanship if there is still enough money left to
do so. Apart from the fact that no copyright or,
to say it better, copyrule can be defined when
teaching history (as archaeologist), the copying
of technology, technique and seamanship are
three aspects of the replica discussion – another
one is the use of “historic material”
about Replicas with the main intentions
of Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet?
It might be more than one would expect!
Hamlets focus on society, his focus on social
hierarchy1 as a sort of symbolism of human society
has an equivalent in philosophy, reflecting
basic perspective of the time - more or less in
connection with Hamlet –, an analyses of men
and of the universe.
Hawking, the famous philosopher in his wheelchair,
turned this into the cardinal allegory of
his ideas. He took Hamlets nutshellkingdom as
some sort of laboratory, a basis of his physicphilosophic
analyses.
If he would allowed to launch this nutshellkingdom
into the water – a nutshell could be a perfect
boat for every insects we suppose, even if some
ship owners wouldn’t smile if we speak about
nutshells, boats and ships – we would have a
perfect laboratory for studying society from a
microcosmic perspective.
e.V.1 in Torgelow Germany planned to build a
cog which reflects the shipping and seafaring at
Medieval ages embedded in a regional perspective.
Due to the fact that most of the people only
know the Hanseatic League reflected in the history
of Hanseatic towns like Lübeck, Hamburg
and Bremen, the maritime determinations of
smaller Hanseatic towns like Anklam and
Demmin (neighbour towns of Torgelow) are not
well known. To find a cog shape which reflects
this regional perspective was one of the main
tasks when preparing the project.
find examples in this volume and in other scientific
proceedings1 - you will certainly find
answers to the question what kind of project can
be considered as a real replica project. To summarize
the different intentions shortly: If one
wished to apply the same techniques and technologies
for the replica as they were used when
building the original ship as well as the same
seamanship if there is still enough money left to
do so. Apart from the fact that no copyright or,
to say it better, copyrule can be defined when
teaching history (as archaeologist), the copying
of technology, technique and seamanship are
three aspects of the replica discussion – another
one is the use of “historic material”
about Replicas with the main intentions
of Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet?
It might be more than one would expect!
Hamlets focus on society, his focus on social
hierarchy1 as a sort of symbolism of human society
has an equivalent in philosophy, reflecting
basic perspective of the time - more or less in
connection with Hamlet –, an analyses of men
and of the universe.
Hawking, the famous philosopher in his wheelchair,
turned this into the cardinal allegory of
his ideas. He took Hamlets nutshellkingdom as
some sort of laboratory, a basis of his physicphilosophic
analyses.
If he would allowed to launch this nutshellkingdom
into the water – a nutshell could be a perfect
boat for every insects we suppose, even if some
ship owners wouldn’t smile if we speak about
nutshells, boats and ships – we would have a
perfect laboratory for studying society from a
microcosmic perspective.