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Exhibition at the Boehringer Ingelheim Centre 2024
‘Place of discovery: Ingelheim - Grave 447 - A Frankish warrior on his way to the afterlife’
In October 2024, Boehringer Ingelheim and the Kaiserpfalz Research Centre presented the reconstruction of a spectacular medieval warrior burial at the Boehringer Ingelheim Centre BIC. The so-called warrior’s grave was discovered in June 2023 in the cemetery on Rotweinstraße. It is characterised above all by the fact that, unlike most of the other graves on the Rotweinstraße, it had remained untouched. This meant that the Merovingian could be recovered after almost 1400 years with all his grave goods and, in particular, his impressive armoury. The exhibition, which shows other finds from the Rotweinstraße in addition to the warrior’s restored grave goods, will be on display to the public at another location in Ingelheim in summer 2025.
The gatehouse of the imperial palace – model for the Boehringer Ingelheim logo
The defining motif of Boehringer Ingelheim’s word and design mark is derived from the reconstruction of the large gate hall of the Palace. This three-aisled pillared hall was located at the apex of the semi-circular structure. From the outside, it looked like a Roman city gate flanked by towers, such as the Porta nigra in Trier. Inside, it was furnished with precious marble floors. Three steps led down to a courtyard surrounded by porticoes with ancient Roman marble capitals (peristyle). A digital architectural reconstruction of the Carolingian gateway from 2012 can be seen here as a video.
Special exhibition 2019
‘The charismatic place. Stations of the travelling kings in the Middle Ages’
Five years after the special exhibition on the ‘Charlemagne Year 2014’, the Kaiserpfalz Research Centre once again put on a major exhibition from 20 August to 20 November 2019. This time, the focus was on the travelling emperors of the Middle Ages. Under the title ‘The charismatic place. Stations of Travelling Kings in the Middle Ages’, both new finds from Ingelheim and top-class loans from European museums were exhibited in the Kunstforum/Altes Rathaus. On display, for example, were the remains of the marble sarcophagus of Louis the Pious (814-840) from the Musée de La cour d`or in Metz (F), in which the emperor was buried in Ingelheim after his death. Other impressive exhibits included a four-metre-high column made of green porphyry from Aachen, Lombard stuccowork from Brescia (I) and the famous eagle brooch from the treasure of Empress Agnes from Mainz.
All rooms and objects from the exhibition The Charismatic Place, which wowed the public in Ingelheim in 2019, can be viewed in a virtual 360° tour.
