REINHARDT, 1952
Reinhardt expressed the view that the buildings that
appear on the large rectangular tract to the east and west
of the Church (sheets 4 and 5) were not part of the original
scheme but an afterthought or a later addition. He inferred
this from the fact that sheets 4 and 5 were added to the
center portion of the Plan only after the buildings on the
latter had been delineated and inscribed with their
explanatory titles.[210]
Reinhardt's factual observations on this
score were correct and important, but to infer from them
that the scheme of the Plan was a compilation of parts
created at different times involves a confusion between the
conceptual homogeneity of the original scheme and the
physical assemblage of the various pieces of parchment on
which the copy was traced. A monastery could hardly
function without the buildings that appear on the top and
bottom sheets of the Plan, which consist of such basic
and indispensable monastic facilities as the Novitiate, the
Monks' Infirmary, the Cemetery, the House of the
Physicians, the House for Bloodletting, the Vegetable
Garden and the Gardener's House, the houses for the
chicken and geese and their keepers, as well as the entire
aggregate of buildings west of the Church which shelter
the milk- and cheese-producing animals so vital to the
monastic economy. An analysis of the distribution of the
buildings and their respective functions in the monastic
community discloses that there is no conceptual disparity
along the lines that Reinhardt suggests. Some of the most
vital monastic needs are met by installations that lie on
sheet 4 to the east of the Church (Novitiate and Infirmary,
House of the Physicians, House for Bloodletting), whereas
some of the most basic service functions are accommodated
in houses shown on the center portion of the Plan (sheetgroup
1, 2, 3) together with Church and Claustrum
(Granary, Great Collective Workshop, Mill, Mortar,
Drying Kiln, House of Coopers and Wheelwrights, House
for Horses and Oxen and Their Keepers).
