Part of a Carolingian polycentric monastery: Reichenau-Niederzell - The medieval church and its liturgical setting

位于康斯坦茨湖赖兴瑙岛上的教堂是欧洲中世纪早期和盛期最著名的修道院之一。过去几年的研究表明，那个时期的修道院似乎必须由几个独立的教堂和单独的部分组成，以满足修道院、施主和教区的不同需求。这些部分构成了一个网络，为那些家庭构成中欧精英的僧侣和捐赠者提供礼拜、纪念和代表功能。没有一个多中心的修道院建筑群像赖歇瑙的修道院那样保存得如此完好，部分建筑已经被彻底检查过了。对1984年至2012年期间主要修道院米特尔采尔和上采尔圣乔治学院教堂的建筑历史进行的考古研究取得了开创性的成果，其中重要部分已经发表。1970年至1976年，在尼德采尔的圣彼得和保罗学院教堂（建于799年）被挖掘出来。尽管这个挖掘项目，这是，仍然是唯一的现代挖掘这种程度的赖兴瑙，是精心策划和执行的最高标准，结果还有待分析。特别注意将被给予的重要片段的匈牙利合唱团屏幕。这一分析不仅将为特定建筑的考古学或艺术史问题提供答案，而且还将深入了解礼拜仪式的多样性、区域差异、空间组织以及一座典型的中世纪早期修道院非常复杂的结构的历史。因此，其结果将是至关重要的研究在许多领域的中世纪研究。

The churches on the island Reichenau in Lake Constance are part of one of the most prominent monasteries of the Early and High Middle Ages in Europe. Research in the last few years has shown that it seems to be essential for monasteries of that period to be composed of several separate churches and individual parts, serving the different needs of convent, benefactors and the parish. These parts constitute a network providing liturgical, memorial and representative functions for monks and donators whose families formed the middle-European elite. There is no polycentric monastery complex so well preserved and in parts already thoroughly examined as the one on Reichenau. Archeological research on the building history of the main monastery, Mittelzell, and the collegiate church of St. George in Oberzell over the years 1984-2012 has led to seminal results, in important parts already published.From 1970 to 1976 the former collegiate church of St. Peter and Paul in Niederzell, founded in 799, has been excavated. Even though this excavation project, which was and still is the only modern excavation of this extent on Reichenau, was well planned and executed under the highest standards, the results have yet to be analyzed. Special attention will be given the significant fragment of Carolingian choir screens. This analysis will not only provide answers to building-specific archaeological or art historical questions but as well give insights into the liturgical diversity, regional differentiation, spatial organization and the history of the very complex structure of an exemplary early-medieval monastery. The results will therefore be fundamental to research in many fields of medieval studies.