Chiemsee boiler

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The golden Chiemsee cauldron was found by a professional treasure diver in May 2001 in the Chiemsee about 200 m from the shore near Seebruck .

The 10.5 kilogram cauldron with a diameter of 50 cm and a height of 30 cm is made of 18-carat gold. The surface of the cauldron is decorated with figures in driftwork that resemble the Celtic cauldron of Gundestrup , which was found in 1891 in the bog of Gundestrup in Jutland , Denmark .

It was examined in the Archaeological State Collection in Munich. Based on the soldering material used and the manufacturing techniques, a Celtic origin was quickly ruled out. There was long speculation about a connection to the Nazi regime. According to the reports, however, the gold kettle was built at the beginning of the 20th century. The originator of the vessel is unknown.

Since there was no evidence of Nazi ownership, the Finder and the State of Bavaria shared the proceeds from the sale of the boiler in 2003. Two years later, the boiler came into the possession of a Swiss financial juggler, who used it for fraudulent offers to investors. He had wanted to market the cauldron as the Holy Grail and the buyers of his participation certificates should be involved. In August 2012 he was sentenced to imprisonment in Zurich for fraud in other cases. The gold cauldron is now part of his bankruptcy property, was confiscated and sold by the Rapperswill bankruptcy office in 2014.

literature

  • Thomas Claus, Thomas Hauer: The gold kettle from the Chiemsee - an archaeological criminal case. In: Ulf F. Ickerodt, Fred Mahler (Hrsg.): Archeology and völkisches Gedankengut. How to deal with your own heritage. A contribution to self-reflective archeology. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59785-9 , pp. 173-210.
  • Jörg Michael Seewald, Sascha Priester: The riddle of the Chiemsee cauldron Myth, madness and reality: the Nazis and their Holy Grail. dtv, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-24878-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goldkessel pulls brown swamp at Merkur-online, accessed April 6, 2013
  2. ↑ Helmut Birkhan : Nachantike Keltenrezeption. Celtic culture projections. Praesens, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7069-0541-1 , p. 751 ff.
  3. ↑ Sven Röbel: Grail from the Chiemsee. Spiegel Online April 23, 2007
  4. ^ "Chiemsee-Kessel" fraudsters convicted. news.ch, accessed April 6, 2013
  5. ↑ Chiemsee-Goldkessel has been sold: buyer remains unknown heimatzeitung.de, accessed on August 24, 2014

Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 20.7 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 32 ″  E