Steinerne Zeugen digital. German-Jewish Sepulchral Culture between the Middle Ages and Modernity – Space, Form, Inscription
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More than 2,000 Jewish cemeteries dating from the eleventh century onwards have survived in Germany. Despite great losses, no other European country possesses a comparably old, rich and multi-layered tradition. These cemeteries are among the oldest testimonies to sepulchral culture in Germany. Their preservation, documentation and interpretation is a task of great importance to society as a whole. Nevertheless, they have not yet received the attention they deserve as places of remembrance with both religious and cultural significance, as expressions of individual and corporate Jewish identity and as historical, literary and material sources.
In the first step of the photogrammetric process, the image pixels are calculated and combined into a fine point cloud. This serves as the basis for the subsequent mesh in the further course of the process.Steinerne Zeugen digital. German-Jewish Sepulchral Culture between the Middle Ages and Modernity – Space, Form, Inscription
Host Academy
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
Location and federal state
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia; Bamberg, Bavaria
Type
Editions: Art History and Archeology
Project number
II.E.20-1/-2
This is where our project comes in. By editing the inscriptions of a representative selection of early modern cemeteries from across the German-speaking lands and by recording the form and materiality of the gravestones, as well as their topographical arrangement, it aims to create and sustainably archive an entirely digital corpus of both texts and images. This will offer unprecedented possibilities to analyze funerary inscriptions, gravestone design and the geospatial context of cemeteries both diachronically and synchronically in a systematic fashion.
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