Celts – powerful lords in the heart of Europe
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2,500 years ago Saarland, together with Luxembourg, Lorraine, Rhineland-Palatinate and Wallonia in Belgium, form an important European centre. Celts live here. Their princes are much feared as warriors. They lay the foundations for a new culture, the Latène culture.
Their smiths have the skills required to forge iron into terrifying weapons and innovative tools. For the fist time the exhibition presents a comprehensive insight into a forgotten chapter of our culture. More than 150 groups of exhibits bring of Celtic innovation, culture and power to life in the 6,000m2 of the blower hall.
The Celts are surrounded by a veil of mystery and the mystical. Many people know Celtic culture through the Asterix and Obelix comic books. The Celts were the first to perfect the forging of iron. New weapons and tools were created.
The Celts were the first to dominate Europe; their domain was today’s Saar-Lor-Lux region. The exhibition shows, for the first time, a cross section of the unimaginably rich princes’ graves of Central Europe and at the most important site of industrial iron production brings most the beginnings of the iron age most vividly to life.
