Geschriebene Räume: Tiroler Burginventare als Quellen für Raumstruktur und -nutzung: Tiroler Burginventare als Quellen für Raumstruktur und -nutzung

Title in English: Written rooms and spaces: Tyrolean castle inventories as sources for spatial structure and use

Alongside construction reports and descriptions, account books and the results of archaeological and architectural history investigations, inventories are one of the most important sources for the spatial structures of medieval castles. Especially room-related inventories structured by room names provide an insight into the status quo of the spatial structures. The room names and descriptions, together with the objects stored in them at the moment of the creation of the inventory, provide an insight into the function, use and design of the rooms of these buildings, many of which are today only in ruins or in a heavily overbuilt state. Apart from the physical elements, inventories also provide an essential basis for research into the social space of the castle. Spatial information often explicitly or implicitly reveal information about the inhabitants of the castle, their actions and spaces as well as memorial practices. The historical spatial analysis, considering interdisciplinary spatial concepts and terminologies, opens the view to these aspects and enables a new perspective on the castle building as a living space of a diverse community of people of all genders and different social groups. By using digital methods, serial sources such as inventories can be systematically analysed in order to study a larger number of castles comparatively, for example with regard to spatial aspects.