Class trip of the history and Latin course of grade 11 to Kalkriese to the monument of the Varus Battle in the Teutoburg Forest for the special exhibition "Pompeii
Quite spontaneously and organized at short notice, a class trip to an extracurricular place of learning took place on 02.11.2022: The students of the history and Latin course visited the special exhibition "Pompeii" and were shown the events of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD in a guided tour lasting more than one hour.
On display were original finds from the excavations of the ancient city of Pompeii, which sank as a result of the eruption of Vesuvius, on loan from the National Museum of Naples. The traveling exhibition, which was the second to stop at the Kalkriese Park in Germany, impressively demonstrated the natural event of a volcanic eruption and the effects it has on the lives of the people living near the volcano.
For the people at the time, a terrible catastrophe - for modern archaeology and historiography, an incredible stroke of luck: Pompeii is so well preserved by the sequence of events in 79 AD that only through this have so many insights into the ancient Roman and Greek world been preserved. Pompeii is and remains the most significant preservation of an incredibly highly cultivated Imperium Romanum that has perished.
The students of grade 11 were able to convince themselves of this fact here in Kalkriese.