GWZO Exhibition Project
The Thuringian Metropolis – Erfurt and Thuringia in the Middle Ages Between West- and East-Central Europe
The cultural, economic and artistic connections of the medieval metropolis of Thuringia in its region and in East and Central Europe take centre in this exhibition projection
Medieval Erfurt was one of the most important cities of the Empire’s eastern regions. It was the seat of Mainz’s suffragan bishops, an important trading centre at the intersection of supra-regional trade routes as well as Central Europe’s largest producer and transshipment point for dyer’s woad, then the most vital dye for the colour blue in cloth dying. Erfurt was also a significant centre of Jewish culture.
The GWZO initiated the project through its research and has taken on the guiding preparations in collaboration with Erfurt’s Angermuseum. The other partners are the state capital Erfurt (Erfurt’s Cultural Administration, art museums, historical museums, municipal archive), Thuringia’s State Office for Historic Preservation and Archaeology, the Episcopal Ordinariate of Erfurt, the Evangelical Church of Thuringia, the Chair for Medieval History at the University of Erfurt and the Society for the History and Archaeology of Erfurt.
For the purposes of academic testing, the GWZO held two international conventions in partnership with the state capital Erfurt, the Chair for Medieval History at the University of Erfurt and the Society for the History and Archaeology of Erfurt in 2018 and 2019.
Conventions
- »Erfurt in the Middle Ages – the Metropolis Between East and West«. Part I: Architecture and Art; Erfurt, Collegium Maius/Kiliani Chapel, 20–23 June 2018
- »Erfurt in the Middle Ages – the Metropolis Between East and West«. Part II: Municipal Development, Urban Life, Intellectual History; Erfurt, Collegium Maius, 6–8 June 2019