Unique architecture dating from the time of Charlemagne
Corvey Abbey in Westphalia is Germany’s 39th UNESCO World Heritage Site. Corvey’s Westwork is architecturally unique.
Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey is the rather unwieldy official title of Germany’s latest UNESCO World Heritage Site. Situated in the Weser Uplands, it is the first UNESCO site in Westphalia.
Corvey monastery, founded as a Benedictine abbey in 822, was one of the most influential monasteries of the Frankish Empire. However, the entrance ticket to the elite club of World Heritage Sites came from Corvey’s unique evidence of Carolingian architecture: above all, the so-called Westwork. It is the only surviving example of this type of architecture from Charlemagne’s time.
