Shrine of Cammin

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Replica of the shrine of Cammin

The shrine of Cammin or Cordula shrine is a reliquary ornate in the Mammen-style . It was worked in Scandinavia around 1000 AD and ended up in the cathedral treasury of the diocese of Cammin , Pomerania in 1175 . It was kept in Camminer Cathedral until 1945 . The original has been missing since the Second World War . One replica is in the Roman-Germanic Central Museum , Mainz, another in the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald. Another copy is in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.

features

One of the mommy-style fields of the shrine of Cammin.

The lost shrine had a wooden core, which was decorated with 27 horn plates, probably made from elk antlers. These ornate plates show animals and masks that belong to the so-called mommy style. The plates were fastened with riveted and gilded bronze strips. On the roof of the shrine, the fittings end in fully sculpted animal heads.

history

Shrines of the Cammin type were apparently widespread at the beginning of the 11th century. On the perjury scene on the Bayeux Tapestry, Harald Godwinson swears by a shrine that resembles the shrine of Cammin. According to Nordic sources ( Snorri Sturluson , Knytlinga saga, Saxo Grammaticus ) and Swedish research, the precious shrine by a Nordic artist from around AD 1000 was discovered during a retaliatory campaign by the Pomeranians under Duke Ratibor I against the Norwegian metropolis Konghelle on Captured August 10, 1135. The relic , also known as the Cordula Shrine , was considered a gift from the Danish King Erik II. Emune to his royal Norwegian counterpart Sigurd I and is said to have preserved the bones of St. Cordula , a martyr (died around 435). The captured shrine came into ducal-Pomeranian possession and was kept from 1175 until the end of the Second World War in 1945 as a cathedral treasure in the cathedral at Cammin in the old Pomeranian residence and bishop's city. The shrine of St. Cordula has been considered lost since the end of the war. The Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of the saints on October 22nd of each year.

According to more recent views, the shrine is viewed as a gift from the Danish Bishop Asker to the Pomeranian Apostle Otto von Bamberg .

supporting documents

literature

  • William Anderson: From the Cordula shrine in the cathedral treasure to Cammin . In: Unser Pommernland (magazine), vol. 14, issue 3, Stettin 1929, pp. 95–96.
  • Lutz Mohr : The Pomeranian Revenge. About the campaign of Duke Ratibor I against Kungälv in the heart of Scandinavia in 1135 according to an Icelandic source . In: Bull and Griffin. Sheets on the cultural and regional history in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , vol. 11, Schwerin 2001, pp. 94-102, ISBN 3-933781-25-6 .
  • Arnold Muhl: The Bamberg and the Camminer shrine. Two magnificent boxes from the Viking Age decorated in the style of mothers . Offa 47. 1991.
  • E. Priess: The Cordula shrine in Kammin. Time and place of its creation. In: Die Denkmalpflege , Volume 4, No. 15 (November 26, 1902), pp. 119–122 and No. 16 (December 17, 1902), pp. 125–126.
  • Egon Wamers (Ed.): The Last Vikings - The Bayeux Tapestry and Archeology , Archaeological Museum Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-88270-506-5 .

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Wamers et al., P. 28.