Imperial Palace Franconofurd

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View from the cathedral tower into the archaeological garden, September 2011
View from the cathedral tower to the town house on the market, which protects the archaeological garden

The former archaeological garden in Frankfurt am Main was created in 1972/73 when the Dom / Römer underground station was built . As part of the Dom-Römer project , the archaeological garden was built over with the town house on the market from 2013 to 2016 in order to protect the excavations from the weather and keep them permanently accessible. In August 2018 the exhibition in the basement of the town hall was reopened as a branch of the Archaeological Museum in Frankfurt under the new name Kaiserpfalz Franconofurd . It presents building remains in a new architectural and museum design

The exhibition includes a bronze model of the Carolingian Palatinate, about two meters in size, based on the findings of the latest excavations from 2012 to 2014, which shows the structural status of the time around 860 AD on a scale of 1:90. Two so-called images of life, large-format 3-D graphics, show detailed digital reconstructions of the Roman road station around 150 AD and the Carolingian Palatinate around 860.

The name "Franconofurd" goes back to the spelling that can be found in the oldest documented mention of the city, a document issued on February 22nd, 794 on behalf of Charlemagne , with which he gave the St. Emmeram monastery in Regensburg various fields and Wiesen donated. It is very likely that it was made in a previous building in the imperial palace. In June 794, at the invitation of Charlemagne, high-ranking church representatives of the Franconian Empire met here for the Synod of Frankfurt .

Protective measures

To protect the facility during the construction work, the entire archaeological garden was professionally covered in November 2012. Previously, during the preparatory work, the buried foundations and wall remains of a 15-meter-long “royal corridor” between the royal palace and Salvatorkirche (predecessor church of the cathedral) from the 9th century were uncovered for the first time since the 1950s. After an intermediate phase of uncovering the parts of the wall in March / April 2013, wooden hoods were placed over the ruins in May 2013 as the last protective measure for the subsequent development of the site. Ultimately, the new building was completed and the foundations integrated in the lower rooms of the building as exhibits.

  • Preparation of the cover in October 2012

  • Coverage in November 2012

  • Building site in March 2013

  • Archaeological garden in April 2013

  • Last protective measures before the development

literature

  • Egon Wamers : On the archeology of Frankfurt's old town - the archaeological garden. In: Frankfurt am Main and the surrounding area . Theiss, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0585-X , pp. 154–159 ( Guide to Archaeological Monuments in Germany , Volume 19).

Web links

Commons : Archaeological Garden (Frankfurt am Main)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The new model of the Imperial Palace Franconofurd
  2. ^ Report from the opening in the blog feuilletonfrankfurt.de
  3. ↑ Engelbert Mühlbacher with the participation of Alfons Dopsch , Johann Lechner and Michael Tangl (eds.): Diplomata 4: The documents of Pippin, Karlmann and Charlemagne (Pippini, Carlomanni, Caroli Magni Diplomata). Hanover 1906, p. 238 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  4. ↑ 794 - Charlemagne in Frankfurt am Main. Exhibition catalog for the 1200th anniversary of the city of Frankfurt am Main. Sigmaringen, 1994, p. 27
  5. ↑ Claudia Michels: Archaeological Garden: Secret passage in the cathedral discovered . In: Frankfurter Rundschau. June 13, 2012. Retrieved March 16, 2014.

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 38.1 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 4.2 ″  E