Fossa Carolina: The link between the harbour networks at the rivers Danube and Rhine. Studies on bridging the central European watershed in the Middle Ages.

Fossa Carolina：连接多瑙河和莱茵河港口网络的桥梁。

• 批准号: 219420062
• 负责人: Dr. Stefanie Berg
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien (IPHT)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2011-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/219420062?language=en
• 关键词: Fossa; Carolina; link; between; harbour

Between the Altmühl and Rezat rivers and close to the village of Graben impressive remnants of the Fossa Carolina are conserved. The canal was constructed by Charlemagne in 793 for bridging the European Watershed and is one of the major hydro-engineering projects of the Early Medieval Period. The canal mirrors an early and for a long period solely attempt to connect the harbour networks of the Rhine catchment with those of the Danube catchment with an artificial waterway and highlights the important role of Early Medieval inland navigation in central Europe. In our interdisciplinary project proposal we aim to analyse the canal on its construction level but also its local, regional and supra-regional role for inland navigation. The canal, appendant Altmühl and Rezat harbours, local settlement structure and environmental history will be reconstructed in a diachronic approach using a full set of archaeological, historical, geoarchaeological and geophysical methods. At the onset of the first project phase no significant findings about the hydro-engineering concept of the canal and its history of use were available. We verified the initial Carolingian age of building and proved the concept of a summit canal. The major aims of the second project phases are to prove the final hydro-engineering concept and the potential use of the canal and to synthesize all available (geo-)achaeological, geophysical, topographical and historical data. We will use a hydrological modelling approach based on new high-resolution dendrochonological data sets from the region. Reconstructed findings about the canal construction style will be integrated in the hydrological model to get information in Early Medieval harbour construction techniques. On local scale the project focuses on the prospection and investigation of the still unknown Carolingian infrastructure of the building site. Additionally, we have preliminary evidence for a collapsed trench in the southern part of the canal but also for a surprising extension of the course in northern direction. This might lead to significant shifts in the local distribution of potential hythes and harbours. Here, four potential sites will be reconstructed and interpreted in a synthetic context. On regional and supra-regional scale we compare the Rhine-Fossa Carolina-Danube corridor with other networks of inland navigation and watershed passages between Saône, Seine, Moselle and Rhine. Here, watersheds are interpreted as stable discontinuities in enduring and diachronic networks of inland harbours and waterways.

在阿尔特米尔河和雷扎特河之间，靠近格拉本村，保存着令人印象深刻的卡罗莱纳槽遗迹。这条运河由查理曼大帝于793年建造，用于连接欧洲流域，是中世纪早期的主要水利工程之一。这条运河反映了早期和很长一段时间内唯一的尝试，即用人工水道连接莱茵河流域的港口网络和多瑙河流域的港口网络，并突出了中世纪早期内陆航运在中欧的重要作用。在我们的跨学科项目提案中，我们的目标是分析运河的建设水平，以及它在内陆航运中的地方，区域和超区域作用。运河、附属的Altmühl和Rezat港口、当地定居结构和环境历史将采用一整套考古、历史、地质考古和地球物理方法，以历时性的方式重建。在项目第一阶段开始时，没有关于运河的水利工程概念及其使用历史的重要调查结果。我们证实了最初的建筑年代，并证明了首脑运河的概念。项目第二阶段的主要目标是证明最后的水利工程概念和运河的潜在用途，并综合所有现有的（地质）水文、地球物理、地形和历史数据。我们将使用一种基于该区域新的高分辨率年轮学数据集的水文建模方法。有关运河建设风格的重建结果将被整合到水文模型中，以获得中世纪早期港口建设技术的信息。在当地范围内，该项目的重点是勘探和调查仍然未知的建筑工地的基础设施。此外，我们有初步证据表明运河南部有一条坍塌的沟渠，但也有证据表明运河向北方方向惊人地延伸。这可能会导致潜在的水文站和港口的当地分布发生重大变化。在这里，四个潜在的网站将被重建和解释在一个合成的背景下。在区域和超区域尺度上，我们比较了莱茵河-福萨塞纳-多瑙河走廊与其他内陆航运网络和索恩河，塞纳河，摩泽尔河和莱茵河之间的分水岭通道。在这里，流域被解释为内陆港口和水道的持久和历时网络中的稳定间断。