Scientific partners of the Kaiserpfalz Research Centre

The Kaiserpfalz Research Centre is involved in the academic discourse through various collaborations. The cooperation with the General Directorate for Cultural Heritage (GDKE) arose from the desire of the Rhineland-Palatinate state authority to work together with the research centre as a specialist institution for medieval research. Within this framework, the experts at the Kaiserpfalz Research Centre prepare exposés on medieval state properties and also support the GDKE’s Directorate of Castles, Palaces and Antiquities (GDKE/BSA). One example of this successful cooperation are the excavations at the Worms cathedral , which the Research Centre has been supporting for several years with specialist archaeological expertise. Other projects include the castles of Pfalzgrafenstein and Trifels, whose museum presentations was redesigned by the research centre on the occasion of the state exhibition The Emperors and the Pillars of Their Power in 2020.

An important partner in the academic network is the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt am Main (mpilhlt). In recent years, this collaboration has resulted in exhibition projects, international specialist colloquia and book projects.

The research centre also has a long-standing cooperation with the Volcanology, Archaeology and History of Technology (VAT) department of the Leibniz Centre for Archaeology in Mainz (LEIZA, formerly the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, RGZM). The focus here is on medieval material culture and economic history. In November 2018, the research centre and LEIZA signed a cooperation agreement in Ingelheim, and since then the collaboration between the two institutions has been expanded.

The Aachen – Ingelheim Palatine Research Working Group (Arbeitskreis Pfalzenforschung Aachen – Ingelheim) was founded back in 2009. Since then, annual conferences have been held on an ongoing basis, enabling a continuous exchange of expertise.