The Palace of Aachen was a group of buildings with residential, political, and religious purposes chosen by Charlemagne to be the center of power of the Carolingian Empire. The palace was located north of the current city of Aachen, today in the German Land (or state) of North Rhine-Westphalia. Most of the Carolingian palace was built in the 790s but the works went on until Charlemagne's death in 814. The plans, drawn by Odo of Metz, were part of the program of renovation of the kingdom decided by the ruler. Today much of the palace is ruined, but the Palatine Chapel has been preserved and is considered a masterpiece of Carolingian architecture and a characteristic example of architecture from the Carolingian Renaissance.
The PalaceofAachen was a group of buildings with residential, political, and religious purposes chosen by Charlemagne to be the center of power of the...
Aachen (/ˈɑːxən/ AH-khən, German: [ˈaːxn̩] ; French: Aix-la-Chapelle; Aachen dialect: Oche [ˈɔːxə]; Latin: Aquae Granni or Aquisgranum) is the 13th-largest...
Diocese of Aachen. One of the oldest cathedral buildings in Europe, it was constructed as the royal chapel of the PalaceofAachenof Emperor Charlemagne...
church of Santa María del Naranco near Oviedo, built around 850 as an aula regia for Ramiro I. There was also an aula regia in the PalaceofAachenː it later...
developers of Carolingian illumination were the so-called "court school of Charlemagne" at the PalaceofAachen, which created the manuscripts of the "Ada...
Ruhr (884) Abbey of Corvey (885) St. George, Oberzell in Reichenau Island (888) Odo of Metz, architect of Charlemagne's PalaceofAachen with the Palatine...
his court again in Ingelheim for a Hoftag, but the PalaceofAachen had now become his “favorite palace” because the hot springs there relieved his rheumatism...
associated palaces (Kaiserpfalz, lit. 'royal palace'). During the reigns of successive emperors, these palaces were expanded, abandoned, rebuilt elsewhere...
top of the foundation walls of the Aula Regia, part of the derelict PalaceofAachen, built during the Carolingian dynasty. Dating from the time of Charlemagne...
Schlösser in nature. Among those that would qualify are the PalaceofAachen and the Imperial Palaceof Goslar. Gothic Schloss Albrechtsburg in Meißen, considered...
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deemed his own 'neo-Aachen' and Charles the Fat's palace at Sélestat in Alsace was designed specifically to imitate Aachen. The palace system as an idea...
expression in his "palace" at Aachen, of which only his chapel remains. In the 9th century, the "palace" indicated the housing of the government too,...
The Aachen Cathedral Treasury (German: Aachener Domschatzkammer) is a museum of the Roman Catholic Diocese ofAachen under the control of the cathedral...
exist. Eudes of Metz is credited as the architect of: Charlemagne's PalaceofAachen with the Palatine Chapel (792–805), in Aachen the church of Germigny-des-Prés...
with huge loans. Examples of surviving imperial palaces may be found in the town of Goslar and at Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth. Aachen Adelberg Aibling Albisheim...
took Aachen, but did not capture Otto II or Charles. Lothair then sacked the imperial PalaceofAachen for three days, and reversed the direction of the...
bishops. Increasingly, the count palatine of Lotharingia, whose office had been attached to the royal palace at Aachen from the 10th century onward, became...
Wala alleged on one occasion that the "army of clerics" (i.e. chaplains) resident at the PalaceofAachen (and perhaps itinerant with the emperor) served...
the ruins of Theodoric's palace by Charlemagne, including several columns that he reused in the construction of his Palatine Chapel in Aachen. The columns...
features of the Chrysotriklinos were later consciously imitated by Charlemagne in the construction of the Palatine Chapel of the PalaceofAachen, although...
Charlemagne's palace at Aachen, the Carolingian royal palace at Ingelheim, and the Asturian kings' palace at Oviedo. An early example of stone fortresses is...
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