Campus Galli

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Campus Galli - Carolingian monastery town
Building site.jpg
Joinery place (2014)
Data
place Messkirch , Hackenberg 92
Art
History museum, medieval monastery construction site
opening 2013
Number of visitors (annually) 91,661 (2019)
operator
Association of the Carolingian Monastery City eV
management
Hannes Napierala
Website

The Campus Galli - Carolingian monastery town of Meßkirch is a modern building project to replicate an early medieval monastery on the basis of the St. Gallen monastery plan .

The construction of the monastery complex near the small town of Messkirch in Baden-Württemberg in the district of Sigmaringen is carried out with the aid of contemporary work techniques. The construction site has been open to visitors since June 2013 . In 2014, around 25 permanent construction workers worked on the construction site. The total construction time is estimated at around 40 years . Template: future / in 5 years

idea

Bert M. Geurten from Aachen came up with the idea for this building project when he saw a documentary on the castle building project in Guédelon in Burgundy in 2005 . He did not want to build a second castle, but to implement the St. Gallen monastery plan, which was never realized.

Blueprint

Drawing (1876) of the buildings according to the St. Gallen monastery plan

The faithful replica of the St. Gallen monastery plan from the early 9th century is underway a good four kilometers north of Meßkirch. During the construction of the monastery town, the building materials and methods of the time were used as much as possible in the sense of experimental archeology , which promises scientific knowledge about Carolingian architecture and construction technology.

Construction progress

The "Campus Galli" project began early in the morning on August 1, 2012: the building line of the Carolingian monastery town was determined based on the first rays of the rising sun on a meadow near Rohrdorf , which afforded a clear view of the eastern horizon .

Craftsmen's huts

Tools on the Galli campus

By the end of June 2013, a first area in the forest was cleared and the construction huts built for the craftsmen: turners , dyers , beekeepers , basket makers , ox drivers , clapboard makers , blacksmiths , stonemasons , potters , weavers and carpenters all contribute to the project with their work and products .

  • Turnery

  • Woodworker

  • pottery

  • weaving

Wooden church

In 2014 the construction of the wooden church and the first barn began. In the 2015 season, the construction of the wooden church was pushed ahead with the topping-out ceremony. In 2016 it was completed “except for the interior and small things outside”.

  • July 2016

  • April 2017

financing

The project received a public start-up grant of around one million euros for four years from the city of Meßkirch, the district of Sigmaringen and the EU program LEADER .

The grant from the city of Meßkirch was 351,000 euros in 2014 and 300,000 euros in 2015. For 2016, an operating grant of 265,000 euros has been approved. In autumn 2016 it was announced that the government grants will flow through at least 2019. The grant planned for 2018 was subsequently increased to 400,000 euros to compensate for the loss caused by the unexpectedly low number of visitors. At the beginning of 2019, Meßkirch's municipal council approved a further 300,000 euros per year for the years 2019 to 2021 to support the operation of the Galli campus.

In addition, there are substantial subsidies from the "Development Program for Rural Areas" (ELR) in the amount of 301,000 euros, spread over three years, for the construction of a barn and other support from the city of Meßkirch, for example in the form of an extension of the parking lot (costs 120,000 euros) , Waiver of a loan from 2014 (40,000 euros) or the assumption of guarantees in the amount of 145,000 euros.

The financing of the facility is to be secured in the long term - similar to that of Guédelon Castle - through visitor income and establishment as a tourist attraction. According to a forecast presented in 2014, the economy should be achieved around 2018 with 80,000 to 100,000 visitors per year. In August 2018, however, it was acknowledged that due to rising costs, even with 120,000 visitors, no black numbers were to be expected.

Scientific Advisory Board

An advisory board made up of experts, which was set up at the beginning of November 2013, will be responsible for the scientific management and supervision of the construction. The chairman of the advisory board is the archaeologist and head of the State Office for Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg, Claus Wolf . The historian and professor of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , Matthias Becher , was elected as deputy. The advisory board includes the Abbey Librarian of the Abbey Library of St. Gallen , Ernst Tremp , who retired in October 2013 , as well as his successor in the office of Abbey Librarian , Cornel Dora, as well as Frater Jakobus Kaffanke , OSB of the Beuron Archabbey .

Research cooperation

On April 20, 2018, a cooperation agreement was signed between the Carolingian Monastery City Association and the Competence Center Archaeometry - Baden-Württemberg (CCA-BW) of the University of Tübingen . The aim of the cooperation is to hold student courses on medieval pottery on the Galli campus. Furthermore, research projects such as archaeometric investigations on pottery made with medieval methods are to be carried out.

Visitor development

In the first season, which started late in June 2013, the Galli campus had just under 13,000 visitors. In 2014, the number of visitors increased significantly, including a summer festival in August and an autumn festival in October as well as 420 guided tours. In 2015 the planned number of 45,000 visitors was exceeded. This also applied to the 2016 season, when, despite the cold and wet spring, significantly more than the planned 60,000 people visited the Galli campus.

In 2018, instead of the planned 95,000 visitors, almost 83,000 came, the reason given was the great heat in summer. For 2019 the planning was reduced to 90,000 visitors; the actual number of guests at 91,661 was slightly higher and thus 10.4% higher than in the previous year.

In 2020, Campus Galli had to remain closed until the end of May due to the Corona crisis . From May 29, the monastery construction site will be open on weekends from Friday to Sunday, on public holidays and during the Baden-Württemberg holidays. Operation is carried out under the conditions of the applicable distance rules.

season Visitors
June 22nd to November 3rd, 2013 12,225
April 2 to November 2, 2014 36,582
April 3 to November 1, 2015 48,058
April 1 to November 1, 2016 65,755
April 1 to November 5, 2017 79,660
March 24th to November 4th, 2018 82,989
April 2 to November 3, 2019 91,661
May 29 to November 1, 2020

criticism

There was criticism of the scientific nature and implementation of the project in 2013, according to Karfunkel - magazine for tangible history and Badischer Zeitung . In addition, at the beginning of 2014 the German Taxpayers Association criticized the financing.

documentation

The documentary filmmaker Reinhard Kungel, who has been working on a long-term documentary about the Guédelon construction site since 2000, will be making a long-term documentary about the construction progress of the monastery town of Messkirch in cooperation with SWR and the Baden-Württemberg media and film company .

In 2014 Reinhard Kungel published the DVD Campus Galli - Building like in the Middle Ages , which contains five short films about the beginnings of the Klosterstadt project and a 90-minute documentary about Guédelon.

On May 8, 2016, the SWR broadcast the 45-minute long documentary Adventure Monastery City Meßkirch - Building like in the Middle Ages by Reinhard Kungel about the first three years of the project. The film was repeated several times.

In June 2016 Reinhard Kungel published the 75-minute DVD Campus Galli - Building like in the Middle Ages - The Beginnings until 2015 , which also contains a 43-minute children's film about the Guédelon construction site in France. The film was shown at the Biberach Film Festival in 2016. The Swiss television broadcast a 52-minute version of the film on 9, 10 and 15 October 2016.

From May 24 to May 26, 2019 90-minute documentary was campuses Galli - The Middle Ages experiment by Reinhard Kungel in cinema seenema in Bad Waldsee premiered. The film documents the development of the Galli campus from 2016 to 2018. The film was then shown in several arthouse cinemas in Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria and Berlin . It was released on DVD in April 2020.

Varia

  • In spring 2017, the writer Manfred Bomm published the crime novel Traufgänger , which is partly set on the Galli campus.
  • Campus Galli has been a member of EXARC (Network Archaeological Open-Air Museums), an international association of open-air museums and experimental archaeologists, since mid-2017 . The association has around 300 members from around 40 countries and is a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
  • In the late summer of 2016, the photographer Walter Schönenbröcher received an invitation from the Galli campus, where he was able to photograph the medieval crafts for his art project HANDwerk for several days . From the end of 2017 to the beginning of 2018, a special exhibition of his works took place in the Doberlug Castle Museum in Doberlug-Kirchhain in Brandenburg under the title Campus Galli - the monastery town of Meßkirch .
  • In July 2018, the author duo Martin Verg and Ina Rometsch published the children's crime thriller Biberfieber: Krummes Ding am "Toten Winkel" , which takes place on a medieval construction site and is inspired by the Galli campus, ISBN 978-3-7641-5134-8 .
  • On March 17, 2019, the cooking program Kitchen Impossible was broadcast on the TV channel VOX , in which TV chef Tim Mälzer, among others, had to cook or bake a lentil soup, a Dennetle with bacon and a honey cake on the Galli campus using medieval means .
  • In the SWR television series Expedition to Home - On the Way of St. James, broadcast on August 7, 2020 , the presenter Annette Krause stopped off at the Galli campus, among other things.

See also

literature

  • Circle of Friends of the Carolingian Monastery Town (ed.): Carolingian Monastery Town Meßkirch - Chronicle 2013: Documentation of a journey through time on the Galli campus . (= Volume 1/2013). Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2013, ISBN 978-3-8392-1483-1 .
  • Freundeskreis Karolingische Klosterstadt (publisher): Carolingian monastery town Meßkirch - Chronicle 2014: Documentation of a journey through time on the Galli campus . (= Volume 2/2014). Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2014, ISBN 978-3-8392-1637-8 .
  • Friends of the Carolingian monastery town (ed.): Carolingian monastery town Meßkirch - Chronicle 2015: Documentation of a journey through time on the Galli campus . (= Volume 3/2015). Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2015, ISBN 978-3-8392-1718-4 .
  • Friends of the Carolingian monastery town (ed.): Carolingian monastery town Meßkirch - Chronicle 2016: Documentation of a journey through time on the Galli campus . (= Volume 4/2016). Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2016, ISBN 978-3-8392-1895-2 .
  • Friends of the Carolingian monastery town (ed.): Carolingian monastery town Meßkirch - Chronicle 2017: Documentation of a journey through time on the Galli campus . (= Volume 5/2017). Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2017, ISBN 978-3-8392-2081-8 .
  • Freundeskreis Karolingische Klosterstadt (publisher): Carolingian monastery town Meßkirch - Chronicle 2018: Documentation of a journey through time on the Galli campus . (= Volume 6/2018). Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2018, ISBN 978-3-8392-2224-9 .
  • Freundeskreis Karolingische Klosterstadt (publisher): Carolingian monastery town Meßkirch - Chronicle 2019: Documentation of a journey through time on the Galli campus . (= Volume 7/2019). Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2019, ISBN 978-3-8392-2434-2 .
  • Circle of Friends of Carolingian Monastery Town (ed.): Carolingian Monastery Town of Meßkirch - Chronicle 2020: Documentation of a journey through time on the Galli campus. (= Volume 8/2020). Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2020, ISBN 978-3-8392-2550-9 .
  • Isabel Krichel-Bonstein and Oliver Bonstein: Campus Galli monastery construction site in Messkirch 2013–2015 . Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2016
  • Isabel Krichel-Bonstein and Oliver Bonstein: Campus Galli monastery construction site in Messkirch 2016–2017 . Gmeiner-Verlag, Meßkirch 2018
  • Hannes Napierala: Campus Galli - The official construction site guide. Meßkirch 2020, ISBN 978-3-8392-2654-4 .
  • Erik Reuter: Campus Galli - The guide to the Carolingian monastery town of Meßkirch. Meßkirch 2013, ISBN 978-3-8392-1481-7 .
  • Martin Rogier: Pottery like in the 9th century. A reconstructed workshop on the Galli campus. In: H. Stadler and L. Obojes, eds .: Ceramics between production, practical use, advertising, propaganda and mission. 50th International Symposium on Ceramic Research Innsbruck, Tyrol from September 24-29, 2017; Weger Verlag 2018
  • Walter Schönenbröcher: Campus Galli , Cottbus 2016, 1st edition, ISBN 978-3-9817962-1-6 .
  • Alexander Smoltczyk: time travel handmade. A Carolingian monastery town is being built in Upper Swabia - according to original plans. In: Rulers, Heretics, Middle Ages. The mirror - story. Issue 1/2015, pp. 112–119.
  • Ernst Tremp : The St. Gallen monastery plan - facsimile, accompanying text, inscriptions and translation. St. Gallen 2014, ISBN 978-3-905906-05-9 , pp. 15–17, 34–35.
  • Ernst Tremp: The St. Gallen monastery plan and the Aachen monastery reform. In: Jakobus Kaffanke (ed.): Benedikt von Nursia and Benedikt von Aniane - Charlemagne and the creation of the "Carolingian monasticism" . (Volume 26: Instructions from the fathers ). Beuron 2016, ISBN 978-3-87071-339-3 , pp. 108-139

Web links

Commons : Campus Galli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erik Reuter: Campus Galli - The guide to the Carolingian monastery town of Messkirch. Meßkirch 2013, p. 18.
  2. ↑ Martin Kieß: The orientation of the building line of the basilica and the monastery town in "Carolingian monastery town Messkirch - Chronicle 2013"; Page 36ff
  3. ↑ Selina Ehrenfeld: "More than 65,000 visit Campus Galli". In: Schwäbische Zeitung, November 3, 2016
  4. ^ Campus Galli - The guide to the Carolingian monastery town of Messkirch . Meßkirch 2013, p. 8.
  5. ^ Criticism from the Taxpayers Association - Monastery disaster instead of Campus Galli? . In: SWR4 . January 9, 2014, accessed May 13, 2015.
  6. ^ Gregor Moser: Local council approves money for the monastery town association and Campus Galli . In: Südkurier. December 11, 2014, accessed May 13, 2015.
  7. ↑ schwaebische.de
  8. ↑ http://www.gea.de/nachrichten/politik/campus+galli+die+kirche+vom+geruest+befreit.5072368.htm
  9. ↑ Another cash injection for Campus Galli . In: Südkurier.de on January 25, accessed on January 5, 2020.
  10. ↑ https://www.schwaebische.de/landkreis/landkreis-sigmaringen/messkirch_artikel,-scheune-auf-campus-galli-wird-multifunktional-_arid,10735593.html
  11. ↑ Another cash injection for Campus Galli . In: Südkurier.de on January 25, accessed on January 5, 2020.
  12. ↑ https://www.schwaebische.de/landkreis/landkreis-sigmaringen/messkirch_artikel,-me%C3%9Fkirch-f%C3%B6rdert-den-campus-galli-auch-weiterhin-_arid,10787055.html
  13. ↑ a b Build like 1200 years ago. Meßkirch is carved into the Middle Ages . In: Der Spiegel . March 19, 2012. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
  14. ↑ Sebastian Musolf: 48,058 guests visit the monastery town . In: Südkurier.de of November 2, 2015, accessed on November 15, 2015.
  15. ↑ Middle Ages to join in - STIMME.de. Retrieved August 22, 2018 .
  16. ↑ https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/newsfullview-landingpage/article/forschung-und-lehre-in-mittelalterlicher-klosterstadt.html
  17. ^ Gregor Moser: The monastery town season begins on April 1st . In: Südkurier .de March 13, 2015, accessed on May 13, 2015.
  18. ↑ Selina Ehrenfeld: More than 65,000 visit Campus Galli . In: Schwäbische Zeitung .de November 2, 2016, accessed on November 2, 2016.
  19. ↑ Another cash injection for Campus Galli . In: Südkurier.de on January 25, accessed on January 5, 2020.
  20. ↑ Conclusion of the 2019 season - Facebook page of Campus Galli. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung.de of May 13, 2020, accessed on May 13, 2020.
  22. ↑ on the weekends from Friday to Sunday, as well as during the Baden-Württemberg holidays; depending on the development of the Corona crisis.
  23. ↑ Michael Wolf: Causa Galli - What is going on at Lake Constance? In: Karfunkel - magazine for tangible history. No. 106, June 2013, p. 107f.
  24. ↑ Dominik Bloedner: Medieval City “Campus Galli”: Fewer visitors, more criticism . In: Badische Zeitung . April 29, 2015.
  25. ↑ Is the monastery catastrophe coming? In: The Taxpayer. 1/2014. Ed .: Association of Taxpayers Germany
  26. ↑ SWR documentary
  27. ↑ EXARC
  28. ↑ Niederlausitz currently from January 11, 2018
  29. ↑ SWR television - expedition home

Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 0.6 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 10.8 ″  E