– Place of Production and export of glass

The harbour of Cologne was an importantfactor in the development of the city onto one of the most important cities of Europe between late Antiquity and the Middle ages. Between former Roman town wall and harbour sprang up a settlement of merchants and craftsmen, who produced glass and metal and sold them via the harbour in the Early middle Ages. Close Merovingian and Karolingian sites of this settlement were excavated along the bank of the Rhine in the years between 1996 and 2012. Together with products of metal and pottery, those of glass from theses workshops were sold in the Merovingian period via the harbour to Krefeld-Gellep, Duisburg and other places, in the Karolingian period to Dorestad and Haithabu. These harbours came to more importance as a result of the intensification of relations to the Karolingian empire.

Projekt team

Dr. Michael Dodt
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie
Regina-Pacis-Weg 7
Tel: 0173/8040925
Mail: mdodtnoSpam@uni-bonn.de

Research assistant:

Ella Magdalena Hetzel
Domstraße 89
50668 Köln
0177/2035280
ehetzelnoSpam@uni-bonn.de

Cooperation partner:

Dr. Andreas Kronz
Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum der Universität Göttingen
Goldschmidt-Str. 1
37077 Göttingen
0551/39-9336 o. -33975
akronznoSpam@gwdg.de