Medieval Artisans’ Quarters and the Duisburg Imperial Palace
Volker Herrmann
Duisburg (Dispargum) developed into an interregional urban centre in the early and high Middle Ages due to its favorable location where Rhine Ruhr Rivers merge east-west oriented Hellweg crosses rivers. Craft production prospered next trade transshipment of goods palatium settlement later imperial town. The pottery with a grey fabric roulette decoration was supraregional importance. (pots jugs) produced for complex ninth tenth centuries made workshops along bank River. Two ovens were analyzed archaeologically. Ovens slag finds testify presence iron working periphery harbor area. Metalworking probably also important shipbuilding repair see-going vessels on shipyards. A sunken hut found suburban river valley that use as weaving shed. In artisan Oederich between numerous huts found. this area sheds present smithies, butcheries, leather processing bone dating eighth twelfth centuries.
Medieval and Modern Matters