Crown of the Bavarian Queen
The crown of the Bavarian queen is a crown that was made for the wife of the Bavarian king .
After the establishment of the Kingdom of Bavaria, King Maximilian I commissioned two crowns for himself and Queen Karoline Friederike Wilhelmine from the French court jeweler Martin Biennais .
The crown is made of gold , silver , pearls , six emeralds , two rubies and diamonds . On the hoop it has a diameter of 11 cm and a height of 17 cm.
The golden ring has a row of pearls on the top and bottom. In between there is a formation of three diamonds, a larger one flanked on the right and left by a smaller one. This formation alternates with diamond rosettes that frame emeralds inside and two rubies on the front of the crown. A flat band of diamond-set , spiral-shaped tendrils rises above the hoop . Eight large, shell-shaped spikes grow out of it, from which the crown stirrups extend. The mussels have large round or pear-shaped pearls on their lower half. From these pearls six ribbons with pearls and five ribbons with diamonds go up and to the side in a radial pattern. Very large pear pearls on golden pins sit between the shells. The crown stirrups swing upwards like a volute, indent slightly, before they bend slightly upwards again and meet at the apex, where they are held together by a diamond-studded band. Here they bend outwards again like water fountains. The temples taper sharply towards the top. They have a row of pearls in the middle and diamonds are set on the edges. The globe sits above the fountain and the cross above, both set with diamonds.
The crown got its current appearance from the Munich court jeweler Gottfried Merk, who made slight changes on the orders of Ludwig II in 1867. The crown of the Bavarian queen is now in the treasury of the Munich residence .
literature
- Jürgen Abeler : Crowns. Sign of rulership of the world . 3rd improved and enlarged edition. Orb-Verlag Pies, Wuppertal 1976.
- Heinz Biehn : The crowns of Europe and their fate . Limes Verlag, Wiesbaden 1957.