Carolingian Westwork Corvey | Germany

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The Imperial Abbey of Corvey was a Benedictine abbey on the River Weser in Germany, built between 822 and 885. It was one of the Imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire from the late Middle Ages until 1792. It has the oldest surviving example of a westwork.

A westwork is the monumental, west-facing entrance section of a Carolingian, Ottonian, or Romanesque church. Carolingian architecture is the style of north European Pre-Romanesque architecture belonging to the period of the Carolingian Renaissance of the late 8th and 9th centuries, when the Carolingian dynasty dominated west European politics.

Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey is a UNESCO World Heritage site.