Architectural Styles
Ottonian
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Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
950-1050
- Synthesis of Roman, Carolingian, and early medieval Germanic influences
- Basilica church plans
- monumental scale for religious and political power
- round Roman arches
- barrel/groin vaults
- massive/thick walls
- small & few windows
- distinctive towers beside entry (westwork)
- no ambulatory
- sculptural reliefs
- frescoes & mosaics,
- engaged columns (pilasters)
- east orientation
- Germany
- Northern France
- parts of Italy
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Churches
- monasteries
- Castles
- St. Michael’s Church Hildesheim
- St. Cyriakus Church Gernrode
- St. George’s Church Reichenau Island
- St. Peter’s Church Bremen
- St. Mary’s Cathedral Magdeburg
- Cluny Abbey
- Monastic guesthouses (hospitium)
- Cathedral / bishop’s hospitality (episcopal precincts or clergy houses)
- Hospitals / hospices (charitable lodging)
- Imperial palaces and royal estates (Pfalzen / Kaiserpfalzen)
- Private aristocratic hospitality
- Urban lodging in private houses
- Commercial inns / taverns
- Route shelters / bridge and pass lodging
- Kaiserpfalz Goslar (Germany)
- Kaiserpfalz Quedlinburg (Germany)
- Kaiserpfalz Ingelheim (Germany)
- Abbey of Reichenau (Germany)
- Abbey of Corvey (Germany)
- Magdeburg (Ottonian archiepiscopal centre);
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation
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