Luhdorf coin treasure

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The Luhdorf coin treasure
Siegburger jug

The coin treasure of Luhdorf is a deposit of 159 late medieval coins that was found in 1986 on a farm in the Winsen district of Luhdorf in the district of Harburg in Lower Saxony . The materially not particularly valuable find is characterized by an unusually uniform origin of the coins from the Hanseatic region and is shown in the archaeological permanent exhibition of the Hamburg Archaeological Museum in Hamburg-Harburg .

Find

The coin treasure was found in 1986 by the farmer Wolfram Siegismund while digging a cable trench on his parents' farm. In August 1986 the Helms-Museum managed to purchase the entire coin treasure, five coins remained with the Siegismund family as a souvenir.

Findings

The coin treasure from Luhdorf was packed in a jug made of Siegburg stoneware , which was closed with a lump of clay and then buried. The jug contained 159 silver coins , the majority are Witten with a face value of four pfennigs . 49 Witten came from Stralsund , 29 from Rostock , 25 from Wismar , 13 from Hamburg and 13 from Lübeck , five from Lüneburg and four from Kiel . All Witten show a uniform back with a centrally arranged cross which is surrounded by a band with an inscription. On the front , the Witten bear the respective city ​​arms of their minting places. Other coins from the treasure came from the Swedish Stockholm . All coins were between the years 1365 and 1379 marked .

  • Stralsund

  • Rostock

  • Wismar

  • Hamburg

  • Lübeck

  • Luneburg

  • Kiel

interpretation

Compared to other North German coin hoards from the 13th to 16th centuries, Luhdorf's coin treasure appears unusually uniform. The distribution of the minting locations is predominantly in Mecklenburg , whereas coins from the closer locations such as Lüneburg, Kiel or Hamburg are only available in small quantities. The nearby and most important city of the Hanseatic League, Lübeck, is also represented by only a relatively small number of Witten. The significant accumulation of mints is geographically in the focus of the later Wendisch Münzverein . Another numismatic peculiarity is the relatively short period of the coining years, which are in a range of less than 20 years. Overall, the material value of the coin hoard is not particularly high. For 1369, Thieme gives the equivalent of seven bushels of rye in Hamburg or 278 pounds of butter in Bremen or Braunschweig . The reasons for the burial of the coin treasure near the then important long-distance trade route Lüneburg-Hamburg with the Elbe crossing at Hoopte and Zollenspieker can only be guessed at , so the fear of a merchant of a robbery in the troubled times of the War of the Lüneburg Succession would only be one of those discussed Options.

Web links

Commons : Münzschatz von Luhdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Rüdiger Articus, Jochen Brandt, Elke Först, Yvonne Krause, Michael Merkel, Kathrin Mertens, Rainer-Maria Weiss: Archaeological Museum Hamburg, Helms-Museum: A tour through the ages (=  publications of the Archaeological Museum Hamburg Helms-Museum . No. 101 ). Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-931429-20-1 , pp. 72-73 .
  • Wulf Thieme: A treasure from Luhdorf, district Harburg . In: Ralf Busch (Hrsg.): Hidden treasures in the collections: 100 years of the Helms Museum . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1998, ISBN 3-529-02001-X , p. 118-119 .
  • Wulf Thieme: A jug with coins from Luhdorf . In: Landkreis Harburg (Ed.): Harburg district calendar . Prieß, Harburg 1989, p. 115-122 .
  • G. Hatz: The find from Winsen-Luhdorf, Krs. Harburg (buried after 1371) A contribution to the coinage of Witten . In: Hamburg contributions to numismatics . No. 33-35, 1979-1981 . Museum of Hamburg History, ISSN  0072-9523 , p. 83-103 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helms-Museum inventory number: 63472 (after Wegewitz 1941)
  2. ↑ Subject area Gwalt, showcase No. 50.
  3. ↑ a b Rüdiger Articus, Jochen Brandt, Elke Först, Yvonne Krause, Michael Merkel, Kathrin Mertens, Rainer-Maria Weiss: Archaeological Museum Hamburg, Helms-Museum: A tour through the ages (=  publications of the Archaeological Museum Hamburg Helms-Museum . No. 101 ). Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-931429-20-1 , pp. 72-73 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Wulf Thieme: A treasure from Luhdorf, Ldkr. Harburg . In: Ralf Busch (Hrsg.): Hidden treasures in the collections: 100 years of the Helms Museum . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1998, ISBN 3-529-02001-X , p. 118-119 .