Hiddenseer gold jewelry
The Hiddenseer Goldschmuck , also known as the Hiddensee Gold Treasure , is a 16-part collection item from the archaeological collection of the Museum of Cultural History in the Hanseatic City of Stralsund . According to several finders , the jewelry made of gold was found as flotsam near Neuendorf on the Baltic island of Hiddensee between 1872 and 1874 and is considered an outstanding example of the goldsmith's art of the Vikings .
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The preserved part of the treasure consists of a 44 centimeter long neck ring, a disc fibula , four smaller and six larger hanging crosses and four links. The gold weight is 598.2 grams (gold content between 93 and 97 percent).
The neck ring consists of four gold wires that are twisted together. The ends are flattened and hallmarked. The diameter of the massive ring is 12.5 centimeters, the ends are designed as hook and eye fasteners.
The main motif of the hanging crosses is a bird's head. These decors were pressed on with models . The jewelry is richly decorated with filigree and granulations . The pendants are decorated with filigree braid. The six large pendants are very similar. Of the smaller pendants, two resemble the larger pieces, the other two are richly granulated.
The front side of the disc fibula is richly decorated with Nordic animal ornaments. Its center is a cross-shaped cell. Four animals intertwined with one another touch the gusset of the cross with their beaks. The disc is framed by three pearled, filigree wires. The bare back shows remains of the bracket.
The four intermediate links are made of thin sheet gold and granulated hollow bodies. They were probably spacers between the hanging crosses. Since the existing pieces do not fit perfectly, it can be assumed that the jewelry originally included other parts.
The combination of the material and the forms of jewelry make this jewelry something special; comparable pieces were only found in Haithabu and York .
history
The jewelry was made around 970/980. The narrow neck ring was probably worn by a woman or a child. The disc fibula suggests that the owner is a rich Viking. However, there is no evidence of the original owner. However, the Danish King Harald Blue Tooth was associated with the property.
History of the exhibits
Rudolf Baier , founder of the Provincial Museum for Neuvorpommern and Rügen in Stralsund, assumed that a large part of the jewelry was washed away during a storm flood on November 13, 1872 on Neuendorfer Strand on the island of Hiddensee . His successor Otto Gummel , on the other hand, was of the opinion that the jewelry must come from the Klara Karl cutter, which was stranded at the place of discovery , since the pieces showed no damage; his theory that it was stolen property, however, could not prevail.
The jewelry was probably hidden in a ceramic vessel with an eight-centimeter mouth, as indicated by the condition of the neck ring when it was found. It was doubly bent at this point.
The sailmaker Linsen let the island authorities know in June 1873 that he had recently found seven pieces of gold jewelry on Neuendorfer Strand. Rudolf Baier bought this for 500 marks for the Stralsund Museum. Also in June 1873, the Stralsund goldsmith Ahrens bought a small connecting link from a woman who claimed to have found the pieces in November and December 1872, and on August 5, 1873 a small hanging cross for a total of 90 marks. After the storm flood of February 18, 1874, more pieces were found on the beach. District President Ulrich von Behr-Negendank gave the museum a large hanging piece that a Ms. Striesow had sold to the goldsmith Petschler.
Rudolf Baier obliged the fishermen from Hiddensee to deliver all the pieces they found to the museum. He paid them 4.10 marks per gram for it. The museum acquired additional parts piece by piece for almost 2,257 marks. Gold jewelry today has an insurance value of over 70 million euros.
In the museum's permanent exhibition, a true-to-original replica made after 1990 at the Römisch-Germanisches Museum Cologne was shown; the original was kept in the museum's archive until 2015 and was only presented on special occasions. As part of a traveling exhibition organized by the Danish National Museum , the British Museum and the Museum of Prehistory and Protohistory, the jewelry has been on display in Copenhagen , London and Berlin since June 2013 .
After the exhibition areas were converted, the original jewelry has been on display since December 12, 2015.
reception
A part of the Hiddenseer gold jewelry was carried in the postage stamp year 1976 of the Deutsche Post of the GDR in the series "Archäologische Funde".
literature
- Claudia Hoffmann: The gold jewelry from Hiddensee. In: WORLD-CULTURE-HERITAGE. No. 01/2009, OCLC 265909878 .
Web links
- Literature about Hiddenseer gold jewelry in the state bibliography MV
- The gold jewelry on the museum's website
supporting documents
- ^ Herbert Ewe : Hiddensee. VEB Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1983, p. 136.
- ↑ www.stralsund-museum.de