Lohra coin treasure

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The Lohra coin treasure was found in June 2002 in Lohra in Central Hesse . The coin treasure comprises 483 high medieval silver coins , which were in a vessel fired from clay, and were probably deposited in the second half of the 13th century on the north-western corner of the defensive wall of the Protestant church in Lohra .

discovery

The Lohra coin treasure was discovered on June 7, 2002 during renovation work on the wall of the old churchyard, in the center of which is the local Evangelical Lutheran church. The found property was secured by the Hessian State Office for Monument Preservation , Marburg branch, which also carried out the search at the site. Further silver coins were seized here. The scientific processing took place in the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies in Marburg.

Found good

The coin treasure consists of 483 silver coins of different types and different coinage and was contained in a vessel, the shards of which were also found at the site and which could accordingly also be reconstructed. The vessel is a turned disk made of hard-fired stoneware. The beaker has a funnel-shaped, curved neck, the body of the vessel, on the other hand, is characterized by a pear-like shape that merges into a pinched wave base at the base. By means of typological comparisons, the vessel can be dated to the second half of the 13th century. The hole in the bottom of the vessel indicates its previous use for washing corpses.

Apart from a two-sided pfennig with the minting of the Archbishop of Cologne Konrad von Hochstaden , the coin treasure consists mainly of one-sided pfennigs, in this case so-called Wetterau bracteates , which come from one or more undefined royal mints . This is at least suggested by the varying images of a crowned person with a scepter and orb. In addition, a silver coin depicting Landgrave Heinrich I of Hesse probably refers to Lower Hesse mints.

According to § 984 BGB , the owner of the coin treasure is the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Lohra, on whose property the coin treasure was found.

Dating

The treasure is clearly to be attributed to the high medieval penny period . However, comparable finds from the end of the 13th century in Hesse are quite rare, which is why an exact dating is difficult. It can be stated, however, that the treasure should not have entered the earth before 1290.

Others

The discoverers of the coin treasure, three employees of a restoration company from Naumburg in Saxony-Anhalt , received the special prize of the Hessian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the form of a symbolic finder's reward in 2003 for their exemplary preservation of the find. The rights as a discoverer according to § 984 BGB were assigned to the church community as the client.

literature

  • Niklot Klüßendorf, Wolfgang Korn, Christa Meiborg: The coin treasure from the old churchyard in Lohra, district of Marburg-Biedenkopf. Wetterau bracteates from the late 13th century (=  Archaeological Monuments in Hessen . Issue 159). State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-89822-159-8 .
  • Niklot Klüßendorf: Coin discovery report of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies, Marburg (=  Find reports from Hessen . Volume 41/2001 , Part 2, No. 9: 1997-2005 ). 2006, ISBN 3-7749-3115-1 , pp. 547 f., 583 .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Niklot Klüßendorf, Wolfgang Korn, Christa Meiborg: The coin treasure from the old churchyard in Lohra, district of Marburg-Biedenkopf. Wetterau bracteates from the late 13th century (= Archaeological Monuments in Hessen. Issue 159). State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, Wiesbaden 2003. p. 5 ff.
  2. ↑ Niklot Klüßendorf, Wolfgang Korn, Christa Meiborg: The coin treasure from the old churchyard in Lohra, district of Marburg-Biedenkopf. Wetterau bracteates from the late 13th century (= Archaeological Monuments in Hessen. Issue 159). State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Wiesbaden 2003. P. 9 f.
  3. ↑ Niklot Klüßendorf, Wolfgang Korn, Christa Meiborg: The coin treasure from the old churchyard in Lohra, district of Marburg-Biedenkopf. Wetterau bracteates from the late 13th century (= Archaeological Monuments in Hessen. Issue 159). State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Wiesbaden 2003. P. 12 ff.
  4. ↑ Niklot Klüßendorf, Wolfgang Korn, Christa Meiborg: The coin treasure from the old churchyard in Lohra, district of Marburg-Biedenkopf. Wetterau bracteates from the late 13th century (= Archaeological Monuments in Hessen. Issue 159). State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, Wiesbaden 2003. p. 9.
  5. ↑ Niklot Klüßendorf, Wolfgang Korn, Christa Meiborg: The coin treasure from the old churchyard in Lohra, district of Marburg-Biedenkopf. Wetterau bracteates from the late 13th century (= Archaeological Monuments in Hessen. Issue 159). State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, Wiesbaden 2003. p. 6.
  6. ↑ hmwk-hessen.de