Research on the construction history of the Trier Cathedral

自2015年8月开始，对特里尔大教堂的研究已经取得了许多积极的成果，为德国最古老的大教堂的建设和功能创造了新的形象。由建筑考古学和艺术史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，从根本上研究一座纪念性建筑高度复杂的历史，这种方法的尝试已经被证明是成功的。这一科学进步的关键是与特里尔教区的当地专家和机构的良好合作，他们负责研究和保护纪念碑。正在进行的dfg项目是大教堂的第一个外部项目，该项目已经能够进行建筑调查，并提供了全面访问大量档案材料的机会。由于项目的进展，已经发现了新的感兴趣的领域，这些领域在第一次申请时是无法预见的。为了达到对建筑史进行彻底修订的总体目标，这一新课题具有特殊的意义。其中包括，在与教区考古学家Winfried Weber新建立的合作中，对大教堂下早期挖掘的部分评估，作为早期建筑历史的基础，对尚未能够确定日期的建筑阶段的放射性碳定年方法，对1960/70年代大教堂的最后一次大规模翻新的分析和评估，它改变了建筑物的结构设置，比以前认为的更广泛，并研究圣徒传记与教会政治之间的关系，这些关系对教堂的建设历史有着直接的影响。这两个研究职位继续工作12个月，将能够完成和扩大以前的成果，重新评价目前的需要，并将其纳入最后的全面评价。

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.