Council silver

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Installation of galvanic copies of the council silver in the Lüneburg town hall, historical photo around 1900

To Rats silver (only singular) are counted in the narrow sense, a magnificent drinking and dining utensils made of precious metals, including the panel trim and silver cutlery , in addition, also the rest of the device (also gold-plated) of silver, as insignia , the oath certain reliquaries , shields , Minstrel badges and messenger boxes , which make up the city's silver possession , which is intended for representation in the respective town hall, and which has often grown historically since the late Middle Ages. The concentration of the “council silver” phenomenon on German and some German-Swiss cities is remarkable.

history

Just as the idea of ​​the hoard is reflected in motifs from legendary literature and is specifically manifested in church treasures and princely treasuries , so the free cities that emancipated themselves from their respective sovereigns in the late Middle Ages also adopted this form of display of rank and wealth. The earliest evidence (Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne) and the oldest object still preserved today (Naumburg) date from the 14th century. Older sources already show that the acquisition was made mainly from foundations and gifts, but also partly on account of the city. On the basis of traditional inventories, the oldest date from 1428 (Bremen), 1446 (Cologne), and 1460 (Lübeck), one can still get an idea of ​​typical late Gothic holdings, but also of recent changes and changing appreciation. Medieval pieces have only survived very rarely (Ingolstadt, Lüneburg), and even more rarely in the town halls themselves. While some of the most important council silver treasures from southern German imperial cities are largely lost (Augsburg, Nuremberg, Ulm, Regensburg), notable smaller stocks have been preserved in northern German cities (Emden, Osnabrück, Mölln).

From the older treasures and inventories it becomes clear which types of vessels belonged to Council silver in the early days: especially cups, jugs and bowls. The magnificent goblets ( welcome ) have played a dominant role since the 16th century , as clearly shown by the Lüneburger as the most important among the preserved council silver ensembles in terms of age, size and artistic rank. A council silver treasure represented a permanent supply for gift purposes, from which one used for gifts and bribes. Silver foundations were therefore often linked to the condition that the donation had to remain in the town hall “forever”. In modern times, it has become a custom in many places for councilors to give a silver item to the treasure when they change office, be it when they join (Bremen) or when they leave office (Hamburg). The intention to preserve the memory of the founder was served by inscriptions and coats of arms. As with silver work, the origin of the workshop can be recognized by the stamped silver marks at the latest since early modern times ; The work does not always come from the respective city itself, as is the case with embassy gifts to the council. Weight information was sometimes engraved under old silver vessels, as they were also values ​​and were recorded in the inventories. Since silver "in Europe the foundation of all currencies made," the pomp and harnesses were jewels in times of need also " pledged , sold or melted down " are, for example, from new coins to dominate . In the early days, the wages on the pieces corresponded to only a fraction of their precious metal value. While the large goblets were used more ceremonially than practically in the early modern period, not only these individually designed display vessels with their low practical value, but also silver goblets and goblets in general went out of fashion in some places in the course of the 17th century Councilors preferred to drink from glasses and often wanted a dinner service designed according to a uniform pattern (Bremen, Hamburg).

In the 18th century the time for grand ceremonial gestures is over. Now, more purely everyday items such as eating utensils and candlesticks are being acquired; Entrances and exits change more frequently, unfashionable items are melted down, porcelain and faience compete with silver for table decorations. Some council silver stocks were hidden as unused capital or were the subject of pledges (Hamburg). At the beginning of the 19th century, many council silver treasures were partly dissolved, partly with the exception of a few individual pieces (Hamburg, Cologne, Nuremberg, Dortmund, Frankfurt). The mediatization of the Free Imperial Cities and the contributions in the Napoleonic Wars contributed to this, as did a general turning away from the ceremonial.

After 1870 a change began. From new, Wilhelminian-style wealth, a locally tinged nationalism, along with a historicism that processes general and local history, imitates its styles, restores the cityscapes and erects grandiose new town halls, this staging of history that has shaped the entire epoch grows. The council silver should be "evidence of generosity and public spirit and thus the figurehead for the successful model of the autonomous modern city." The most important acquisitions now include complete cutlery sets, some with exclusively designed stamps (Bremen, Lübeck). New features in the Council's silver treasures at the end of the century the centrepieces , first in the form of highly aufgesockelten bowls for fruit or Makartsträusse then often listed by way of soaring, with, allegories decorated showpieces without any utilitarian purpose Nouveau finally the Jardinière . The profound modernization of the arts and crafts around 1900 is not necessarily reflected in the equipment purchases for the newly built town halls, where Art Nouveau is only half-heartedly used in architecture and table decorations (Hamburg, Bremen).

Individual council silver treasures

Aachen

After only the “Devil's Inkwell” and the “ Crown Prince's Cup ” remained from the council silver of the City of Aachen due to the losses in World War II , a citizens' initiative had been formed through which more than 20 silver place plates could be donated for the annual coronation meal .

Appenzell

The so-called council silver contains trophies and small works of art that the state of Appenzell was given as a gift on state visits; it is kept in the cultural property protection room of the state archive.

Bernkastel

Three trophies, one of them from 1661.

Bremen

Pieces that were made between 1535 and 1912 are now part of the Bremen Council Silver. The oldest historical news comes from the time shortly after the completion of the town hall in 1405. In 1428, 14 parts, mainly bowls, were inventoried. The oldest surviving parts came to the Bremen council in 1609 when the London Stalhof was dissolved . Outstanding is a large cymbal made in 1535/36, probably based on a design by Holbein the Younger . Together with a jug, it forms the only remnant not only of the Stalhof silver, but of the entire equipment of this Hanseatic trading yard. In 1642, System was added to the previously wildly expanding population. Up to 1681, “beautiful silver crockery was created”, over 260 uniformly decorated plates, bowls, spoons, mugs, mustard jugs, salt barrels, candlesticks and braziers, financed by a fixed fee from each new councilor. In 1684 only the Stalhof silver escaped a meltdown campaign because of a planned property acquisition. In 1878, old parts were given away for the last time for uniform cutlery, and in 1889 a large centerpiece was purchased. Four decorative bowls by Heinrich Vogeler (1902 and 1907) and an ensemble by Rudolf Alexander Schröder for the New Town Hall mark the end of the history of German council silver treasures in Bremen as well.

The pieces by Holbein and Vogeler are exhibited in the Focke Museum , another small selection in the Upper Town Hall . Together with the silver from the Seefahrt company , the Bremen council silver forms table decorations and utensils for the annual Schaffermahlzeit .

Dortmund

With the exception of a simple cup donated in 1745, not only are all the more important, older silver pieces of council that were certainly present missing, but also all sources about them. In 1899, the year the town hall was rebuilt and the emperor was visiting, the town hall received new silver from donations from city councils and local corporations. Outstanding pieces are: the guest book with writing utensils, the imperial beaker as well as other beakers and candlesticks. In 1903 a centerpiece was added that allegorically thematized mining, and in 1915 the two “Season Bowls”. Individual parts of the council silver are exhibited in the Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund .

Dresden

The 67-part Dresden council treasure was lost in the turmoil after the end of the war in 1945. During the GDR era, two beakers and a communion chalice were successfully returned. In 2015, a gold-plated trophy in the shape of a ship by the Nuremberg goldsmith Tobias Wolff from the 17th century appeared in the art auction trade and was repurchased for the city museum in 2017. Negotiations for a fifth piece, allegedly a silver plate owned by a North American museum, were also ongoing in 2017.

Emden

Four trophies from the 16th to 17th centuries from Augsburg, Antwerp and Lübeck as well as a hand washing set from Strasbourg make up the remnants of the city silver that were brought to the Emden State Museum.

Erfurt

In 1632 the council owned a treasure trove of 127 pieces weighing over 400 kg. Only three pieces on display in the new city museum have survived: the wine curl (a stoneware vessel in a silver frame) from 1640, the tumbler called the “Turkish maid” from 1566 and the two barrel cups from 1592.

Frankfurt am Main

Representative duties of the old imperial city, in which the German kings were elected since the Middle Ages, demanded correspondingly elaborate table decorations. But only from the year 1741 do we know more details about an extensive acquisition for such an occasion. In 1796, the largest part was melted down in order to obtain ransom money that was supposed to persuade the French garrison to withdraw. Only remnants from the 18th century are left of the old Frankfurt council silver: a few candlesticks, plates, bowls and cutlery. Between 1899 and 1912, individual community foundations added a whole series of centerpieces, goblets and other crockery items in addition to extensive tableware.

Hamburg

The treasure, which comprises many hundreds of pieces, including over 70 individually made showpieces, is mostly from the years around 1900 as it is today.

The holdings, which had grown since the 15th century, had taken on a significant size in the 16th and 17th centuries, but a custom established itself to be able to remove an older piece if an endowment was duly submitted. In 1650, an inventory log documented a profound change in inventory, inconsistent individual items were replaced by a uniform dining service. In 1805 another 240 individual items were recorded in the inventory - only to be melted down, the bars were easier to get to safety from the advancing French. Only three pieces were spared. With the return to old traditions in historicism, donations increased again towards the end of the century. Centerpieces, goblets and uniform cutlery (1894) complete the tableware. A special focus is the works of the council goldsmith Alexander Schönauer, who between 1899 and 1914 delivered imaginative, but only with a hint of Art Nouveau, historicizing works to the magnificent Hamburg town hall , completed in 1897 . Ship models and maritime allegories determine the pictorial decoration of the silver table decorations. After 1914 there were no further changes in the inventory worth mentioning. In 1940, however, the town hall administration had all engravings relating to Jewish donors on 32 pieces of silver deleted. In 1997 all the inscriptions were restored.

The silver chamber in the Hamburg City Hall is open to the public during city hall tours.

Hanover

Stefan Schostok in the New Town Hall of Hanover with the mayor's chain of office from the time of the German Empire

Nothing has been preserved from the older council silver in Hanover. In 1608 an inventory still listed 75 objects, mostly drinking vessels with a total weight of 34.6 kg, including a heavy bowl as a centerpiece. In the course of the 17th century more cups and jugs were added. Upmarket citizens of the city could borrow parts for private parties.

The goldsmith Carl Lameyer gave a lidded cup in 1913 for the new town hall built between 1901 and 1913 . The chain of office made by Hermann Schaper in 1901 can also be counted as council silver. In 1940, 151 pieces of silverware from different eras valued at 13,315 RM, which had recently been confiscated from the Jewish citizens of Hanover, were transferred to the town hall. The Lord Mayor Henricus Halthoff used this stock for generous gifts to other Nazi functionaries. The remains have been lost since the end of the war.

Ingolstadt

In 1813, the Bavarian city's council silver was auctioned off under state pressure. Five late Gothic goblets are in various museums, the Capricorn Cup in the Metropolitan Museum of Art .

kassel

In addition to the baroque “Kasseler Willkom”, the council silver today consists mainly of additions on the occasion of the new town hall building completed in 1909 .

The medieval council treasure in 1498 contained several "cleinode" . From 1577 onwards, the silver tableware increased considerably because each new councilor had to contribute a cup worth 20 guilders. An inventory recorded soon after 1677 lists 70 mugs and other elaborately designed goldsmiths' work from the 16th century, including the still existing "Kasseler Willkomm", a lidded tankard with rich figural driving work from 1658. Filled with wine, the old and the new shared it Mayor at the annual handover. In 1910 the tankard escaped an almost complete sale of the silver treasure. Prominent guests have been offered a welcome drink from a replica since 2013.

A renewal was only initiated by the new town hall. 30 of the 40 large council silver objects were created around 1909, including the trophy, which was donated by the trade and industry association and designed by Hermann Dürrich, rising on a mighty base. The eight neo-baroque works by the Kassel goldsmith FW Range stand opposite their stylistic diversity as a uniformly decorated group.

Cologne

Gabriel Hermeling, design for a table fountain for the Cologne council silver, 1897

The Cologne council silver consists mainly of neo-Gothic objects made around 1900. Older stocks have been lost with one exception.

There is archival evidence of repairs to council silver in 1370 . By 1445 there must have been a few jugs, a number of bowls, mixing vessels and a few cups or goblets. The news from the following centuries is even more sparse. It was not until 1795 that the melting of the council silver was reported, from which only 748 guilders were redeemed. A single cup (Cologne, around 1720), today in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts , escaped this act. A southern German cup depicting the Battle of Alexander in 1674 was used by the council in 1848, but only came into municipal possession in 1866. From 1890 (Imperial Cup) a new treasure trove of council silver was collected, the most splendid of all younger ensembles of its kind. The commissions made possible by the council from 1897 to 1905 from upper-class foundation funds ( golden book , inkwell, crown prince's cup, centerpieces , girandolas , cutlery and tableware) are in neo-Gothic Maintained style, as only the medieval ballroom in Cologne, the Gürzenich , came into question as a place of use . Art Nouveau forms only show the few additions around 1913. Of three table centerpieces from 1929 in the Art Deco style , two were destroyed because of their donation by a Jewish citizen and / or as examples of degenerate art under National Socialist rule.

Lübeck

List (of part?) Of the Lübeck council silver on the occasion of a court session, detail from a painting by H. v. Hemssen, 1625

The oldest list of 146 with 13 pieces belonging to the council silver lists: 2 jugs, 2 bowls ("Schauer"), 2 double cups, 2 mugs, 3 confectionery bowls with little scoops. In 1505 and 1540 more cups and jugs were added. An inventory from 1559 describes a five-tiered sideboard for the effective presentation of the dishes. Occasions for such a list were the Hanseatic Days , St. Peter's Day , on which the new Senate was established, and other important meeting days or receptions. In 1806 the indebted city auctioned off the 232 parts of the council treasure and received an amount in the order of magnitude of the material value. “ Obviously the heavy gilding of the old goblets and vessels no longer corresponded to the taste of the time. At this point in time, the collector's value of historical vessels from the late Gothic and Renaissance periods was not yet as important as it was to become around the middle of the century. "

After the Senate had made use of loans for representative table decorations by the end of the century, it acquired a magnificent cup in 1903. This kick-off was followed by a number of foundations by citizens and companies in the form of trophies, mugs and jardinières . None of the historicizing pieces show any echoes of the style change around 1900 and even the design by the Art Nouveau artist Heinrich Vogeler for council cutlery was so conventional in 1908 that the designer and client for it were sharply criticized in the daily press.

Luneburg

Today, 37 extraordinarily magnificent pieces from the period between the middle of the 15th and the beginning of the 17th century belong to the Lüneburg Council Silver. These years were the time of the greatest wealth of the city, which had become powerful through salt production. Despite considerable losses, this treasure is by far the most extensive ensemble of bourgeois goldsmiths of that era. As outstanding pieces include: the oath of citizenship crystal of 1443 of Hans von Laffert , a chapel-shaped reliquary, to which the new residents the oath of citizenship took off that (however vanished since 1945) silver-mounted drinking horn made of ivory from 1446 and the large silver statue of Our Lady, around 1510.

By 1611 the council silver had reached its largest extent with around 100 bowls, 50 cups , as well as jugs, beakers and other table utensils, a total of 253 pieces. The treasure in was kept Schenk Schieven of City Hall, lockable furniture, the silver was put on festive occasions to flaunt their flip open. From the Thirty Years War to 1694, the inventory had shrunk to its present size. Discussions about selling the rest of the building, which continued throughout the 19th century, ended in 1874 with a sale to the Berlin Trade Museum. The council silver fund set up from the 660,000 marks fell victim to inflation in 1923.

The original inventory is still on display in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts. In the town hall of Lüneburg you can see the galvanoplastic replicas made in 1874 .

  • Trophies of the Lüneburg Council Silver in the display of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts, 2010

  • Confectionery bowl made from the Lüneburg council silver, today in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Lüneburg, around 1535, inv. No. 1874, 399

  • Maria with child , Lüneburg around 1510; partially gold-plated, cold-painted, semi-precious stones and pearls

  • Reliquary ( " oath of citizenship crystal"), Hans von Lafferde, Lüneburg 1443, Inv. No. 1874,371

  • Large casting lion with dragon and snake made from the Lüneburg council silver; Donors coat of arms Heinrich Stöterogge , Lüneburg 1540

  • Coin Cup, Jochim Worm (?), 1536, Inv. No. 1874,384

  • Crowning of the hunting cup, Tönnies Dierssen, Lüneburg around 1580–90

  • Foot bowl with deer in the enclosure, Lüneburg around 1500, Inv. No. 1874,396

  • One of two confectionery bowls with Lüneburg coat of arms and portrait medallions, silver, Lutke Olrikes, Lüneburg 1541, inv. No. 1874,402 or 1874,403

  • Cup with family tree of Christ, Franz Gruwel (?), Inv. No. 1874,381

Mölln

Among the silver drinking vessels in Möllner Hall include a cover Cup of 1581, the "Fire Greven cup", a hamburger Akeleipokal from 1646 and ten equal Lübeck cup of 1677th

Osnabrück

The six trophies from the 16th and 17th centuries exhibited in the town hall form the largest collection of the Council silver treasures that have remained in the same place for centuries. The medieval imperial cup also kept there was not originally part of the council silver.

Stuttgart

In the City Museum Stuttgart a silver cup from the Council of silver of Stuttgart today is in the form of a lion. It was donated in 1648 as part of the Lindenspür meal. Lindenspür decreed that an annual "Christian and honest meal" should be distributed from this foundation. He donated this cup made by Jeremias Pfeffenhäuser (1617–1677) for drinks. At the same location is also a crowned by the "Stuttgarter Rössle" Centerpiece , which was made in 1905 for the New City Hall issued.

Wuppertal

A small, but stylistically uniform council silver ensemble in its neo-Gothic forms came together in 1900 from foundations in the newly built Elberfeld town hall in order to be able to receive Kaiser Wilhelm II appropriately for the inauguration: a golden book with an inkwell, a goblet, a centerpiece , two candlesticks and 1901 two more bowls. Not always accessible.

Other cities

From other cities are smaller, z. Some unpublished ensembles and individual pieces have been identified.

Individual evidence

The names of the authors in the short citations refer without exception to titles in the bibliography.

  1. ↑ Seelig, p. 231f; Gussone, note 3
  2. ^ A b Eva-Maria Landwehr: Town halls and civic pride. In: Art of Historicism , in the series Uni-Taschenbücher , Bd. 3645, Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8252-3645-8 and ISBN 3-8252-3645-5 , pp. 36–44, here: p. 41; online through google books
  3. ↑ Hanspeter Lanz: Swiss silver treasure: gold and silversmithing from the Swiss National Museum = Trésors d'orfèvrerie suisse: les collections du Musée national suisse. Exhibition catalog Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, April 24 to July 25, 2004, cat. No. 28. (Winterthur) - A. Gruber: Weltliches Silber , catalog of the collection of the Swiss National Museum Zurich. Zurich 1977, cat.no.63, 186, 187, 198, 201, 205, 253, 270, 271.
  4. ↑ Seelig, p. 236
  5. ↑ Seelig, p. 243
  6. ↑ Seelig, 240
  7. ↑ Marcel Philipp (Responsible): Ratssilber ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website aachen.de , content: Citizens' initiative to complete the Council Silver, last accessed on January 14, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aachen.de
  8. ^ Rainald Fischer: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Appenzell Innerrhoden, Basel 1984, pp. 310-312.
  9. ^ Hans Vogts: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Bernkastel , Düsseldorf 1935, pp. 79–82.
  10. ^ Ribbert, p. 199
  11. ↑ Sächsische Zeitung July 7, 2017
  12. ↑ Lavoir Emden
  13. ↑ Meinz, p. 663
  14. ^ Frankfurter Ratssilber - Exhibition of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main at Hertie, Zeil (Frankfurt am Main, Department for Culture and Leisure, 1985)
  15. ↑ A. v. Rohr, p. 58 with ill.
  16. ↑ Peter Schulze : Jews. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 326ff.
  17. ↑ Av Rohr, p. 61: SA Chief of Staff Viktor Lutze received a silver coffee service on his 50th birthday . The deputy NSDAP - Gauleiter Kurt Schmalz received a coffee service, a farewell on the occasion of his transfer "in memory in the remote poses ". Reich Minister Wilhelm Frick was presented with a silver bowl on his 65th birthday
  18. ↑ The present silver in Hanover City Hall is neither described nor cataloged in a publicly accessible manner. The information given here is therefore likely to be incomplete for the time being.
  19. ↑ Seelig, p. 235
  20. ↑ In the old usage of the language, jewels were not just pieces of jewelry, but also insignia and even silver table utensils, or as here probably: reliquaries for taking an oath
  21. ↑ Vogeler, p. 75
  22. ^ Hartwig Beseler (ed.): Art Topography Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster 1969, 363, no fig.
  23. ↑ Christian Dolfen : The Emperor's Cup of Osnabrück , Osnabrück 1927; Erwin Panofsky: Renaissance and Renascences , Stockholm 1960, pp. 95-96. Also in German: The Renaissance of European Art , Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, ​​1979.
  24. ↑ Löwenbecher Stuttgart
  25. ↑ List in Gussone, p. 29

literature

General

  • Carl-Wolfgang Schümann: Orfevrerie fantastique: tresors des villes allemandes (fin 19e siècle) . Exhibition publication at Europalia 77, Brussels 1977.
  • Lorenz Seelig: Silver for Council and Guild , In: Citizenship and Art in the Modern Age, ed. By Hans Ulrich Thamer (= urban research, series A, vol. 57), Münster 2002, pp. 231–266. (with comprehensive references)
  • Nikolaus Gussone: The council silver. History-Usage-Shape , In: Stefan Bursche: Das Lüneburger Ratssilber , inventory catalog of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Berlin 1990, pp. 24–33
  • M. Meinz: Ratssilber in Lower Saxony Cities , In: City in Transition Art and Culture of the Bourgeoisie in Northern Germany 1150–1650 , Exhibition Catalog Braunschweig, Stuttgart 1985, Vol. 3, p. 661 ff

Literature on individual council silver treasures

  • Edmund Renard: Das Neue Ratssilber der Stadt Aachen , In: Mitteilungen des Württembergischer Kunstgewerbevereins, 1902. - [1] (1902/03), pp. 153–160.
  • Lepper, Herbert: The Aachen Council Silver. A contribution to the representation of bourgeois self-confidence in Wilhelminian Germany . in: Aachener Kunstblätter 53.1985, pp. 189–206.
  • H. Seling: The art of the Augsburg goldsmiths , Munich 1980, pp. 42–44, 209
  • Johann Focke: From the old table utensils of the Bremen council . In: Communications from the trade museum in Bremen , 1889, pp. 1–5 and 9–14
  • Gerd Dettmann and Albert Schröder: Die Bremische Gold- und Silberschmiede (Writings of the Bremen Scientific Society, Series A, publications from the Bremen State Archives, Issue 7), Bremen 1931. Reprinted with the sources for Council silver in:
  • Alfred Löhr, Bremen silver. From the beginnings to Art Nouveau (booklets of the Focke Museum, No. 59), catalog for the exhibition in the Bremen State Museum in 1981, pp. 139, 142 (No. 103), 173–179, 212–214, 228–234.
  • Alfred Löhr: Das Bremer Ratssilber In: Gotthilf Hempel (Ed. :) The town hall and its neighbors , Bremen 2005, pp. 147–158. ISBN 3-89757-322-9
  • Horst Appuhn: The Dortmund he council silver . 1898-1915; in the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the City of Dortmund, Cappenberg Castle , described by Horst Appuhn. Stadtsparkasse Dortmund, ed. 1969 for the exhibition of the council silver in the main office of the Stadtsparkasse Dortmund, with photos by Ursula Haustein, Dortmund: Stadtsparkasse Dortmund, 1969
  • Margret Ribbert: Das Dortmunder Ratssilber , In: Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund: Museum Handbook, Part 3, Dortmund August 11, 1899 - The Kaiser comes to the inauguration of the port , Dortmund 1984, pp. 199-208.
  • Helmut Eichhorn. Selected Emder artworks , Emden 1983, on council silver: pp. 82–87.
  • PW Meister: Das Ratssilber der Stadt Frankfurt am Main , exhibition catalog for the exhibition of the same name from August 22 to October 20, 1963, Frankfurt am Main: Museum für Kunsthandwerk , 1963.
  • P. Stahl: Ratssilber , exhibition catalog Frankfurt a. M., 1985
  • BILD Hamburg, Menso Heyl (Ed.): The Hamburg silver treasure. On the trail of five centuries , catalog for the exhibition from November 14 to December 21, 1997 by BILD Hamburg in the Springerpassage, Hamburg, Munich: Hirmer, 1997, ISBN 3-7774-7660-9
  • B. Heitmann u. a .: Das Hamburger Ratssilber , In: E. Schliemann (Ed.): Die Goldschmiede Hamburgs, Hamburg 1985, pp. 105–119.
  • Alheidis von Rohr : The council silver in Hanover 1608. In: Noble table utensils. Silver from the Historisches Museum Hannover , in the series of writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover , issue 4, 1993, ISBN 3-910073-05-0
  • Theodor Müller: Das Ratssilber , In: Th. Müller and W. Reissmüller (eds.): Ingolstadt , Ingolstadt 1974, vol. 2. pp. 7-36.
  • S. Hofmann: Goldsmiths in and from Ingolstadt , exhibition catalog, Ingolstadt 1988, pp. 51–62.
  • Karl-Hermann Wegener (text) and Christian Philipsen (catalog part): Das Ratssilber der Residenzstadt Kassel , In: Reiner Neuhaus u. a .: Kassel silver , Eurasburg: Ed. Minerva, 1998, pp. 267-280.
  • Werner Schäfke: The Council Silver of the City of Cologne , in the series Scientific Catalogs of the Cologne City Museum , Cologne: Cologne City Museum , 1980
  • Hildegard Vogeler : The Lübeck he council silver from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 20th century , In: The new splendor. Silver of Historicism in Lübeck , exhibition catalog, Lübeck 1991, pp. 69–88.
  • Friedrich Bruns , Hugo Rahtgens, Lutz Wilde : The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume I, Part 2: City Hall and public buildings of the city. Max Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1974, pp. 268–273, ISBN 3-7950-0034-3 (on Lübeck council silver)
  • Horst Appuhn (arrangement): Das Lüneburg er council silver , catalog for the exhibition in the Upper Gewandhaus of the town hall of Lüneburg in 1956, on behalf of the Museum Association for the Principality of Lüneburg, Lüneburg: Self-published by the Museum Association for the Principality of Lüneburg, 1956
  • Stefan Bursche u. a .: The Lüneburg Council Silver , inventory catalog XVI of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, 1990
  • Susanne Netzer (Ed.): Das Lüneburger Ratssilber / SMB, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , in the series inventory catalog… of the Kunstgewerbemuseum , vol. 16, with contributions by Nikolaus Gussone and Dietrich Poeck, revised new edition of the 1990 edition, Munich; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-06844-5 and ISBN 978-3-88609-629-9 (museum edition)
  • J. Warncke: The council silver treasure and the tin utensils in the town hall of Mölln , In: Nordelbingen, 5,1, 1926, p. 372–381 (with ill.).
  • Max Geisberg: Das alten Ratssilber , In: E. Schulte (Ed.): Sources and research on the history of the city of Münster , Vol. 3, Münster 1927, pp. 287-330
  • E. Mummenhoff: The town hall in Nuremberg , Nuremberg 1891, pp. 286–288.
  • Wolf-Dieter Mohrmann: From the misery of the council silver. Art and commerce around the Osnabrücker Kaiserpokal In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen. Osnabrück, Vol. 91, Vol. 1986, pp. 193-235.
  • Osnabrück Council Treasure , In: Golden Splendor. Medieval treasure art in Westphalia , exhibition catalog Münster, Munich: Hirmer, 2012, pp. 284–286.
  • O. Hupp: Art treasures of the Regensburg town hall , In: The town hall of Regensburg, Regensburg 1910, pp. 140-146
  • M. Angerer: Regensburg goldsmiths in the 16th century , In: Festschrift Gerhard Bott, Darmstadt 1987, p. 71f.

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