Plate skirt of Zacharias Haderer

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The plate skirt found in 2002 is an important example of medieval armor. A connection to the knight Zacharias Haderer is obvious, but cannot be proven.

At the end of 2002, a probe found a relatively well-preserved example of a record skirt on the area of ​​the Hirschstein castle ruins near Irsham in Lower Bavaria ( Passau district ). The castle was destroyed by the Passau bishopric around 1367 . The armor, which dates back to around 1350, could have been given to field captain Duke Albrecht III. , elsewhere as a “ robber baron ”, who had belonged to Zacharias Haderer, who had recently taken possession of the castle . The breastplate, on which four iron chains ( mamelieres ) are attached, has been particularly well preserved . The warrior's weapons were formerly attached to such chains to protect them from loss. A total of about 30 pieces of armor were recovered. A few rivet heads are still preserved at the edges, which formerly fixed the textile cover of the armor.

Initially, the find was little noticed by experts and its importance was misunderstood. Even today it is occasionally interpreted as a plate armor in which the metal plates were visible from the outside.

It was only when the find appeared in a Munich auction catalog in April 2007 that the director of the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt became aware of it. The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation declared the armament to be a movable monument , so that it was not possible to sell it abroad. The museum was finally able to purchase the tank for its collection for 66,000 euros. In addition to the specimens from the mass graves near Visby , the armor is considered to be one of the oldest surviving examples of a plate skirt in Europe. Due to the good state of preservation and the Mamelieres, which were previously only detectable in medieval representations and grave monuments, the plate skirt is one of the most important arsenal finds of the last decades.

In February 2014, the Bavarian Army Museum and a group of international specialists (from Philadelphia, London, Coburg, Munich and Ingolstadt) succeeded for the first time in producing a coherent reconstruction of the record skirt. The result was presented to the public for the first time at the Bavarian State Exhibition Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian in Regensburg.

literature

  • Tobias Schönauer: Record rock around 1350. In: Ludwig the Bavarian. We are emperors! Catalog for the Bavarian State Exhibition 2014. Augsburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-937974-32-6 , pp. 115–117.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Working meeting with international specialists on the reconstruction of a record skirt from around 1350. Website of the Bavarian Army Museum 02/2014 ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 30, 2015