The Saxonic Sanctuary: Deciphering the Karolingian Westwerk and Spatial Proportions of Corvey Abbey Corvey Abbey’s westwerk—built between 873 and 885 on the Weser in Westphalia—is the oldest completely intact Carolingian westwerk in existence, preserving in local sandstone the spatial hierarchies, proportional geometries, and imperial ambitions of the renovatio Carolingiana. The nave, […]