  Young clusters are observed to form in a variety of interacting galaxies and
violent starbursts, a substantial number resembling the progenitors of the
well-studied globular clusters in mass and size. By studying young clusters in
merger remnants and peculiar galaxies, we can therefore learn about the violent
star formation history of these galaxies. We present a new set of evolutionary
synthesis models of our GALEV code specifically developed to include the
gaseous emission of presently forming star clusters, and a new tool that allows
to determine individual cluster metallicities, ages, extinction values and
masses from a comparison of a large grid of model Spectral Energy Distributions
(SEDs) with multi-color observations. First results for the newly-born clusters
in NGC 1569 are presented.
