Cash register

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Cash register from 1913

The cash register at the Jacobsfriedhof Weimar was a mausoleum built in 1715 as a private hereditary burial , in which Friedrich Schiller was buried in 1805 . It was demolished in 1854 when large parts of the cemetery were leveled. Today there is a replica from 1913 on the site.

history

This mausoleum passed into the possession of the Weimar Landscape Treasury in 1742 , which is why it was called the Kassengewölbe. However, this never had an original function as a money deposit. Noble and deserving civil deceased who did not have their own hereditary burial were buried here. Their names are on stone tablets on the left and right walls. Friedrich Schiller , who died on May 9, 1805, was buried on the night of May 11 to 12, 1805 in the vault, as can be seen from the grave slab. In 1826, the mayor Carl Leberecht Schwabe arranged for the supposed remains of Schiller to be recovered (it was not possible to determine exactly which remains of Schiller were). On December 16, 1827, the bones were transferred to the newly built princely crypt in the "Friedhof vor dem Frauentor", opened in 1818, which is now the historical cemetery . A heavy stone grave slab with Schiller's name as well as a bust standing on a column reminds of this burial. Since the exhumation , it has been unclear whether the skull that was unearthed was also that of the great poet. Since the completion of extensive scientific research with genetic analyzes in 2008, it has been almost certain that the remains recovered in 1826 are not the Schillers'. The actual mortal remains of Schiller were probably lost when the cemetery and the cash register were leveled.

  • Cash vault on the Jacobskirchhof

  • Schiller's tombstone

  • Schiller bust

Trivia

In the German legal dictionary there is the term Kassengewölbe or Kassagewölbe . There is also the explanation: “Vault in a cash register (in the sense of a building, a place); in which a cash register (in the sense of a lockable container) is housed. ”In terms of its function, it is a treasure vault for the safe storage of large amounts of money, such as those in safes . As the name suggests, cellar vaults were preferred in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period . But there is also the cash tower in Weimar , which housed the Princely Landscape Cashier, which had no function as a safe. That was not its original function, but it was a defensive tower and thus part of the city fortifications.

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