Imperial Palace Duisburg

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The Duisburg Royal Palace was the eponymous castle complex of the city of Duisburg . It was built in the 10th century on the basis of a royal court , which was built in the middle of the 8th century on the flood-free elevation of today's Duisburg Burgplatz . Royal courts were centers of large estates, the income of which served the royal court and where German kings and their entourage stopped off. From the beginning to the middle of the 8th century, the royal court is said to have served as a camp for the campaigns of the Merovingian king Karl Martell against the independent Saxons.

There are no written sources for the establishment of the royal court. However, it is archaeologically proven. During the construction of today's town hall in 1900, remnants of the Palatinate wall were discovered. In 1980, layers and finds were discovered in a trench of the Stadtwerke Duisburg in the old market of the city, which go back uninterruptedly from today to Roman times.

The excavations show that the Palatinate area had had an elongated hall building as the main building since the 10th century, which was located on the edge of the lower terrace several meters above the flood-prone floodplain around the old market. The Rhine port was in the immediate vicinity of the Palatinate . The Palatinate area had direct access to a Palatine chapel, which stood in the area of ​​today's Salvatorkirche . The chapel was designed as a three-aisled basilica with a tower facade.

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  1. ^ Joseph Milz : Brief history of the city of Duisburg. Duisburg: Walter Braun Verlag, 1996, p. 37.
  2. ↑ The old market in the mirror of the times , article of the Niederrheinische Gesellschaft für Pre- und Frühgeschichtsforschung Duisburg e. V.

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 8.7 "  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 36.6"  E