History of the Western Ruhr Region between late antiquity and the eve of industrialization

今天的鲁尔城市景观回顾了一段多变的历史，这段历史往往与19世纪的工业化联系在一起，象征着正在进行的结构变化，从经典的“鲁尔波特”，到一个多元化、多元文化的大都市地区。今天这一地区的复调表现了一种历史的、地形上的致密化过程，这种过程不是从工业化开始的，而是有着更深层次的根源。该项目的目的是跟踪城市化的痕迹和城市空间从远古晚期到前现代晚期的变化。在从古代到前现代晚期的四个时间段中，杜伊斯堡城市发掘的考古数据将被分析并比较背景，其中包括选定的文字和图片材料。这将使我们有机会一方面质疑批判性地建立的“城镇类型”模型(例如，帕拉廷城市、汉萨城市、“阿克布吕尔格斯塔特”)，并确定鲁尔大都市区在混乱的工业化阶段之外的根源。同时，这是朝着回答前现代城市化对今天城市景观形成的影响这一问题迈出的根本一步。

Today's Ruhr urban landscape looks back on an changeful history, which is often associated with the industrialization of the 19th century and which is emblematic of an ongoing structural change from the "coal-steel region", the classic "Ruhrpott", to a diverse, multicultural metropolitan region. Today's polyphony of this region is an expression of a historical, topographical process of densification that did not begin with industrialization, but has far deeper roots. The aim of the project is to follow the traces of urbanization and the transformations of urban space from late antiquity to the late pre-modern period. In four chronological sections from antiquity to the late pre-modern period, the archaeological data of the Duisburg city excavations will be analyzed and comparatively contextualized with the inclusion of selected written and pictorial materials.This will give us the opportunity to question critically established models of "town types" (e.g. Palatine city, Hanseatic city, "Ackerbürgerstadt") on one hand and to identify the roots of the Ruhr metropolitan region beyond the tumultuous phase of industrialization. At the same time this is a fundamental step towards answering the question of the impact of pre-modern urbanization on the formation of todays urban landscape.