Crown of Frederick I
The crown of Frederick I is a Prussian crown .
The crown was manufactured in 1701 for the coronation of Frederick I of Prussia in Königsberg . The coronation took place on January 18, 1701 in the form of a self-coronation in Königsberg. By raising the rank, the previous Elector of Brandenburg and his successors succeeded in uniting the widely scattered Hohenzollern territories and preventing the threatened dissolution or division of Brandenburg-Prussia, which had been ruled in personal union until then . However, the title of king was limited to the Duchy of Prussia , which lay outside the Holy Roman Empire . The coronation in 1701 itself was preceded by difficult and persistent diplomatic efforts by Frederick to enforce the rise in rank over Emperor Leopold I in the empire and internationally. King Friedrich II of Prussia was also crowned with this crown.
The crown has practically no jewelery anymore, as the jewels were only attached on special occasions so that they could be used elsewhere at other times. Parts of the jewels were later used in the crown of Wilhelm II . Johann von Besser described the crown around 1712 as follows:
- “ The crown was like the scepter of pure gold / but not / as usual / with foliage = Wercke; but of all diamonds closely attached to one another: on the closed temples and the entire circumference / as if cast from one piece / and not otherwise / then seemed to be divided by the difference in size; because some of them were eighty / ninety and one hundred grains / yes, some diamonds even one hundred and thirty / held in weight / and subsequently fell into the face with different fire. "
The crown is currently kept in Berlin in Charlottenburg Palace.
Web links
- Charlottenburg Palace - Website of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation