Extensive archaeological investigations in the course of the propagation of the brown coal open mining Garzweiler II and the associated resettlement of localities led between 1997 and 2001 in Juechen Neuholz to the discovery of a continuous settlement sequence, which goes from the late Hallstatt period to the early Frankish period. The archaeologists of the Rheinisches Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege could prove not only a villa rustica but also farmsteads from the Iron Age.
Digital archaeology was charged by the Rheinisches Landemuseum Bonn with the visualization of the complex excavation plan. For the exhibition "War and peace - Romans, Celts and Teutons" which will open in June 2007 we will provide an animation film with 3D reconstructions to illustrate the different phases of settlement history.