Gisela Cross
The Gisela Cross is clad in gold leaf wooden cross, the Queen Gisela of Hungary for its 1006 deceased mother Gisela of Burgundy the monastery Niedermünster Regensburg donated.
The cross is 44.5 cm high and 32 cm wide. The core consists of oak wood, which is clad with gold sheet. The figure of Christ on the front is made of cast gold and contains several relics. At the feet of the crucifix is a picture showing the crowned Gisela of Hungary with her mother. The rest of the interior between the edges, which are decorated with pearls, precious stones and enamel work made using the cell melting technique, bears an inscription that provides information about the donor and the reason for the foundation and thus characterizes the cross as a memorial foundation . The back of the cross shows a border design made of enamel and pearls comparable to the front, a shorter inscription and the crucified Christ between the four evangelist symbols on a punched background . The more than 200 small enamel plates on the front and back were re-used, possibly they were originally sewn onto a magnificent robe.
The cross was possibly made in Regensburg after 1006/1007 and kept in the Niedermünster monastery there , the burial place of Gisela of Burgundy. Today it is in the treasury of the Munich residence .
literature
- Sybille Eckenfels-Kunst: Gold enamels. Investigations into Ottonian and Early Salian gold cell melts. Pro Business Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-86805-061-2 .
- Egon Boshof : The Gisela Cross. In: Katharina Weigand, Jörg Zedler (Hrsg.): A Museum of Bavarian History. Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8316-4200-7 , pp. 107–129.