BMT Storage rules

The admission of camps for the Burgmannen-Tage takes place via an application procedure in advance. After selection and approval, we expect appropriate implementation within the framework conditions on site. A check will be carried out at the market as part of an appearance test. At the same time, there will be the A-Schnack as an open round to clarify questions and exchange suggestions.

At the Burgmannen-Tage, after your application there is a preliminary check by our A-Team from Heydenwall to see if you could fit in with our event. We always give new groups and inexperienced people a chance. In the event of a rejection, we will also report back the reasons for our decision. All decisions are made at the discretion of the organizing team and are benevolently oriented towards the idea of the reenactment camp. The decisions always serve to shape the event as a whole. In your application, you should show us that your presentation and your equipment are science-oriented, based on historical models (pictorial and textual sources as well as archaeological finds from the period depicted) and made from historically documented materials. For this purpose, you send us illustrative material with which you present your depiction as an example, with evidence of equipment and clothing. The submission is made via the registration form, but can also be sent by e-mail or post if necessary.

We expect those admitted to the event to create their own presentation with the awareness that they are taking part in a museum event. For us, this means that you have your own high standards for your presentation, both in terms of your camp and your personal equipment. You also demonstrate a willingness to engage positively and actively with the public. We are particularly pleased if the camp remains as authentic as possible outside of opening hours, and we will give preference in the applications to those who give us this pleasure and contribute to the atmosphere.

If we find that this requirement for the event is not met in our opinion, we will give you specific advice on how you can improve this and in what context we expect this. If we do not come to an immediate agreement, we will keep this in mind for next year's application and hope that we can reach an agreement by then, but we will not shy away from the consequences.

We offer the A-Schnack forum on site to support you in improving your presentation. We are also willing to discuss with you in advance and afterwards how camps and presentations can be set up and improved. However, please bear in mind that we also only have limited capacities. We are also happy to help you with any questions you may have about addressing the audience.

Although the entire event is multi-period, the individual representations (both people and camps) should be consistent and coherent. Specifically, this means:

• limited in time
• locally defined
• corresponding to the social roles/status
• according to the culture

We would like to see good displays and displays that do justice to the context of a museum and are based on the current state of research. We are aware that these are ambitious goals that cannot be achieved by hobbyists alone and that not every museum can achieve them. It is precisely against this background that we want to formulate our long-term hopes and wishes in order to ensure that we are on the same path. We also want to walk this path together insofar as we, as joint shapers of this market, are always on the same path. We believe that concepts such as the A-Schnack and the Darstellung-Thing promote positive, collaborative cooperation and look forward to a good exchange between the groups. Here we have put together a picture of good Example camps. We look forward to seeing something similar at the Burgmannen-Tage camps.

Concrete wishes, hopes and goals:

• General.
  • Representations that independently interpret the framework we have set ourselves more and more narrowly
  • More regional presentations (preferably with reference to the Lower Saxony/Vechta region)
  • Presentations that do not exceed a time frame of 30 years
  • Camps that represent a historical community or a historical social context.
• Social.
  • An overall picture of lived representation and experiential history.
  • Performers who engage in an active dialogue with the visitor, keeping history education and historical culture in mind.
  • presenters who are aware of the context of their presentation and who can explain developments before, after and in parallel with their presentation
  • open camps that are happy to interact with the audience
• Persons
  • clothing
    • historical colours in appropriate contexts and combinations
    • Clothing made of historical materials (wool, linen, silk) in the appropriate weave for the garment.
    • „You shall not wear any fabric in which wool and linen are mixed.“ (5th Book of Moses: (22, 11).)
    • all seams with matching stitches and hemming.
    • reversible sewn shoes for the respective epochs.
  • combat and everyday life
    • depictions that do not alternate between combat and civilian life depictions.
    • depictions of the simple and lower classes, servant roles and slavery
  • Body changes
    • Dirty people with the impurities of their everyday craft and life
    • Historical hairstyles (braiding …)
• camp image
  • Tents and the trappings
    • Overall images such as the merchant with his trade goods and his family, the master craftswoman and her journeymen, the sergeant with his unit and the troop, the ministerial with his servants.
    • Sparing use of furniture in tents and camps not filled with household goods. (This applies especially to the period before the 11th century).
    • More tents that are open
    • lighting with more valley lamps, some oil lamps, few candles
  • kitchen utensils, crockery and tools.
    • less metal, more clay and earthenware in the kitchen display
    • More wooden tableware (mugs)
    • Historical crafts
• Food
  • Preparation of food that fits into the period depicted.
• Sale goods
  • Clear distinction between historical and modern, historicising goods (the latter are only allowed to a limited extent anyway)
  • Handouts on places where the goods were found (package inserts)