Offenburg (dpa / lsw) – Authors from the southwest have been awarded for their books on local history. The state prize for homeland research is endowed with a total of 17,500 euros, as the Ministry of Science and Art announced on Thursday at the award ceremony in Offenburg (Ortenaukreis).
The first prize of 5,000 euros went to Susanne Kaiser-Asoronye and Uwe Kaiser from Hemsbach (Rhein-Neckar district) for their book “Learn to read half-timbered houses”. The couple researched half-timbered buildings in the Enzkreis district and discovered around 350 inscriptions on the buildings that had not yet been recorded anywhere, as stated in a video accompanying the award ceremony.
Other prizes went, among others, to Florian Henning Setz from Fellbach (Rems-Murr district) for his work on the Counts of Rechberg. A collective of authors from Bretten (district of Karlsruhe) was rewarded for a book on historical clothing (“Um 1504. The clothing. Basic equipment).
The works make an “indispensable contribution to the cultural identity of Baden-Württemberg”, as Art Minister Petra Olschowski (Greens) explained. Young people were also honored. Pupils researched the history of the Hartmanni-Gymnasium in Eppingen (Heilbronn district), which can look back on a good 600-year tradition.
