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Westwork

A westwork (German: Westwerk), forepart, avant-corps or avancorpo is the monumental, west-facing entrance section ("west front") of a Carolingian, Ottonian...

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Princely Abbey of Corvey

example of Carolingian architecture, the oldest surviving example of a westwork, and the oldest standing medieval structure in Westphalia. The original...

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Trier Cathedral

that was added onto gradually in different eras. The imposing Romanesque westwork, with four towers and an additional apse, has been copied repeatedly. The...

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Aachen Cathedral

of this, was the tiered entrance to the rest of the now defunct palace, Westwork. Light is brought in by a three tiered system of circular arched windows...

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Basilica of Saint Servatius

century, the transept in the second half of the century, and the choir and westwork in the 12th century. The Romanesque church was built during a period in...

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Carolingian church

Carolingian westwork a feature that may proceed western ecclesiastical Romanesque and Gothic architecture. The only surviving Carolingian westwork is at the...

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Speyer Cathedral

the westwork, Heinrich Hübsch, an architect of early Historicism, created a Neo Romanesque design which drew on features of the original westwork and...

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Essen Minster

hall church, built after 1275 in light-coloured sandstone. The octagonal westwork and the crypt are survivors of the Ottonian pre-Romanesque building that...

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Mosan art

Cathedral (westwork) Liège, St Bartholomew's Liège, St Denis, westwork Celles, Saint Hadelin's Nivelles. Westwork abbey church Aldeneik, Westwork Maastricht...

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Portal (architecture)

mullion or trumeau between doors, and columns with carvings of saints in the westwork of a church.[citation needed] Baroque portal of a private palace in Brescia...

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Hildesheim Cathedral

added to the westwork in 1840, were not restored. The westwork was reconstructed closer to its earlier state based on the model of the westwork of Minden...

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Palatine Chapel, Aachen

PRINCEPS CAROLUS CONDIDIT ESSE VELIT". The main entrance is dominated by a westwork comprising the western facade including the entrance vestibule, rooms at...

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Carolingian architecture

commonly incorporated westworks, which is arguably the precedent for the western facades of later medieval cathedrals. An original westwork survives today at...

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Romanesque architecture

The rose window has plate tracery and the spires are Rhenish helms. The westwork of the Maria Laach Abbey, Germany, 12th century, (porch 1225) is typical...

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Narthex

Antechamber Cathedral diagram Liturgical east and west Lobby Scarsella Westwork By convention, ecclesiastical floor plans are shown map-fashion, with north...

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Collegiate Church of St. Gertrude, Nivelles

as people are able to know it from the Abbey of Essen (Germany)". The westwork has been reconstructed. Its current appearance is the result of a long...

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Maastricht

an imposing westwork and important 12th and 13th-century sculptures; most notably the westwork interior figurative capitals, the westwork reredo, and...

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Widukind of Corvey

Corvey Abbey Church, westwork...

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Essen

constructed after a former church had burnt down in 1275. However, the important westwork and crypt have survived from Ottonian times. The cathedral is located in...

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Collegiate Church of St. Bartholomew

century (the chancel) and lasting until the late 12th century (the massive westwork, with its twin towers which were reconstructed in 1876). It underwent,...

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Westwork

A westwork (German: Westwerk), forepart, avant-corps or avancorpo is the monumental, west-facing entrance section ("west front") of a Carolingian, Ottonian, or Romanesque church. The exterior consists of multiple stories between two towers. The interior includes an entrance vestibule, a chapel, and a series of galleries overlooking the nave. A westwork is usually broader than the width of the nave and aisles. It is sometimes used synonymously with narthex. The structural purpose of the massive westwork is to resolve the horizontal thrust of the east-to-west arcades of the nave.Charlemagne dreamt of reviving the Roman Empire in the West. His dream along with his artistic skillset allowed him to implement artwork into buildings with westwork during this time period and can be found in the Corvey Abbey and scattered throughout other westwork buildings today. The Corvey Abbey (built in 885) located in Germany is the oldest example of westwork to date. The Corvey Abbey provides an example of westwork preserved from the time being built. The frescos (originally of the 9th century) inside the westwork show scenes from the Odyssey. The King, later the Emperor, and his entourage lodged in the westwork when visiting the abbey during their travels around the country. This is known as the Kaiserloge on the upper, or second story. The centered room located on the main floor surrounded on all three sides by galleries as well as an arch found in the entrance hall of the Corvey Abbey shows an example of ancient styles used during this time. Westwork from the Corvey Abbey provided a basis in the following years for more architectural advancements in the Romanesque and Gothic periods.The primary source of Trajan's Aqueduct, the Aqua Traiana, a nymphaeum known as the Madonna della Fiora near Rome, is documented in the Historical Diocesan Archive of Nepi and Sutri as having been converted into a church in medieval times by constructing a westwork. "It was adapted to a church by building a two-floor masonary forepart: the lower floor as the facade of the church; the upper floor as residence of the parish priest divided into 5 rooms." The feature was introduced into Norman architecture in the 11th century by Robert of Jumièges at the church of Jumièges Abbey, consecrated in 1067. The pattern was continued in German Gothic architecture.


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