Research on the construction history of the Trier Cathedral

自2015年8月以来，对特里尔大教堂的研究已经取得了许多积极成果，为德国最古老的大教堂的建造和功能树立了新的形象。从方法上尝试从根本上研究一座纪念性建筑的高度复杂的历史，由一个由建筑考古学和艺术史领域的成员组成的小型但高度专业化的团队，结合现代文献方法，已经被证明是成功的。这一科学进步的关键是与当地专家和特里尔教区机构的出色合作，他们负责纪念碑的研究和保护。正在进行的DFG项目是大教堂的第一个外部项目，它已经能够进行建筑调查，并能够充分利用大量的档案材料。由于项目的进展，发现了新的感兴趣的领域，这些领域在第一次申请进入时是无法预测的。为了达到彻底修改建筑史这一总体目标，这一新课题具有特别重要的意义。其中包括与教区考古学家温弗里德·韦伯新建立的合作对大教堂下早期挖掘的部分评估，以此作为早期建筑史的基础；对尚未能够确定日期的建筑阶段进行放射性碳测年的方法；对大教堂在1960/70年代的最后一次大规模翻修的分析和评估，那次翻修改变了建筑物的结构设置，比以前考虑的更广泛，以及对圣徒传记和教会政治之间的关系进行的研究，这些关系对建筑史有直接影响。这两个研究职位的续设期限为12个月，这将使以前的成果得以补充和扩展，并重新评估当前的需求，并将其纳入最后的总体评价。

Ongoing since August 2015, the researches on the cathedral of Trier have already been revealing numerous positive results, creating a new image regarding the construction and function of the oldest cathedral in Germany. The methodological attempt to work fundamentally on the highly complex history of a monumental building with a small but highly specialized team consisting of members from building archeology and art history, combined with modern documentation methods, has already been proven to be successful. Essential for this scientific progress has been the excellent co-operation with local experts and institutions of the Diocese of Trier, who have been accountable for research and preservation of the monument. The ongoing DFG-project is the first external project on the cathedral which has been enabled to carry out an architectural investigation and been provided full access to the extensive stock of archival material. Due to the project progress, new fields of interest have been discovered, which were not forseeable at the time of the first application-entry. To achieve the overall objective, which is a thorough revision of the architectural history, this new topics are of particular significance. These include, among others, the partial evaluation of the earlier excavations under the cathedral in a newly established cooperation with the Diocese Archeologist Winfried Weber as basis for the early building history, the approach of radiocarbon dating for building phases which have not been able to be dated yet, the analysis and valuation of the last large renovation of the cathedral in the 1960/70s which changed the buildings constructual setup more extensively than previously considered, and research on the relations between hagiography and church politics which have immediate effects on the building history. The continuation of both research positions for 12 months will allow to complete and extend the previous results with a reappraisal of the current desiderates and to integrate them into the final overall evaluation.