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世纪的工业化有关，也是从“煤钢区”（经典的“鲁尔波特”）到一个多样化、多文化的大都市区的持续结构变化的象征。今天这个地区的复调音乐是一种历史的、地形上的致密化过程的表达，这种致密化过程并不是开始于工业化，而是有着更深的根源。该项目的目的是追踪从古代晚期到前现代晚期的城市化和城市空间转变的痕迹。从古代到前现代晚期的四个时间顺序部分，将分析杜伊斯堡城市发掘的考古资料，并与选定的书面和图片资料进行比较。这将使我们有机会质疑批判性地建立的“城镇类型”模型。（例如帕拉蒂尼市、汉萨同盟市、“阿克堡城”），并确定鲁尔大都市地区在工业化动荡阶段之后的根源。与此同时，这是回答前现代城市化对当今城市景观形成的影响问题的一个基本步骤。

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.