| An important aim of the project is first of all the
compilation and safeguarding of the objects in question according to
the most modern perceptions of historical building methods. This includes
not only the analysis of comprehensive historical, architectural and
archaeological data but also the appropriate documentation of
the existing historical buildings. A result of this is the dissemination
of know-how and promotion of optimal methods with regards to safeguarding
of the common historical heritage. The basic reconstruction principles will be enhanced by a comprehensive compilation of relevant comparative data such as constructional elements, ground plans, illustrations and texts which the specialist institutes involved in the project can file and evaluate and which can be used as a further basis for subsequent virtual reconstructions. Two valuable groups of data result from this evaluation: firstly a concept for a sensitive and equitable restoration of the buildings in question. This contributes decisively and exemplary to the conservation of the castles as significant objects of cultural heritage. Secondly the building phase plan will enable the mental reconstruction of the various reconstruction phases. Thus the appropriate data collected provide a basis for the reconstruction of historical building phases in virtual or in model form. The aim is therefore a visual re-animation of individual time periods which will enable the viewer to see the various building phases of the castles in the respective medieval eras. In the process the castles in question will be digitally visualised per computer Marksburg, Křivoklát, Vianden). At the same time it is intended to produce three dimensional models of the castle ruins of Aggstein and Krivoklat from the 13th century. These models possess an incredible attractiveness on account of their authentic plasticity |
| The castle buildings provide an enormous historical
potential and offer important cultural attractions for a wide
range of tourists of all ages. This potential remains normally unexploited
as restoration and conservation planning is mostly directed to the
building maintenance. This development presents castle researchers with new challenges but at the same time provides the opportunity to play an active part in European cultural information exchange and in so doing to transfer current and new knowledge concerning castles and the Middle ages in an exciting, reliable but at the same time in a generally comprehensible manner. In so doing castle research has in recent year’s gone new ways and made use of modern media (dynamic data bases, digitalisation etc.) which have significantly increased the possibilities to capture castles optically and visually The two directions – the touristic and the scientific are still divergent and not readily compatible. A fundamental idea of this project is to closely channel the two together and create an optimal link in order to transport this concept efficiently into the broad world of specialists and to the general public it is intended to carry out an exemplary run through of documentation and presentation steps based on these four middle European castle complexes. Anyone who in future wants to either research, restore or redevelop castles anywhere in Europe will realise that these fields of activity must coherently interlock and be mutually implemented. In this respect the project will contribute to these basic requirements. |
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