Pomeranian Chronicle

As Pomerania chronicle one is handwriting on the History of Pomerania from the 16th century called. It is an anthology of seven works written in German, which contains around 600 pages. The eponymous main part is a Chronicon Pomeraniae , which ends in 1541. Further components are a description of the Pomeranian-Stettin region , the examination of several Pomeranian cities, a genealogy of the Pomeranian ducal house up to 1557, the house and court rules of Duchess Erdmuthe , a life story of Duke Philip and the arrangement of the funeral for Duke Ernst Ludwig from Pommern-Wolgast .

The manuscript probably originally came from a library of the Cammin Monastery . When the Pomeranian ducal house died out in the middle of the 17th century, the monastery area, which was incorporated into the Pomeranian state after the Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania , came to the Electorate of Brandenburg as part of Western Pomerania and thus later to Prussia . In the first half of the 19th century, the Prussian state sold essential parts of the art and cultural treasures stored there. As a result, the Pomeranian Chronicle came into the possession of the Grand Ducal Government Library in Schwerin . During the Second World War , the manuscript was moved to a salt mine near Staßfurt together with other cultural assets to protect against air raids . The Pomeranian Chronicle has been lost since the end of the war . In 2017 she was found in the attic of an apartment building in Marl , North Rhine-Westphalia . How it got there remains unclear. The finders were able to assign the manuscript to the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Library using the Lost Art database of the German Center for Cultural Property Losses and handed it over to Schwerin in December 2017. The State Library had the work digitized by the Pomeranian Library in Stettin .

literature

• Eckhard Oberdörfer: Pomeranian Chronicle back. Handwriting belongs to the State Library / Western Pomerania expertise is not in demand. In: Ostseezeitung . February 18, 2018 ( digitized at blog.pommerscher- Greif.de ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Chronicon Pomeraniae. In: Lost Art Database. German Loss of Cultural Property Center, accessed on March 7, 2018 . 

Web links

• "Happy ending" in the attic. Pomeranian Chronicle from the 16th century. Press release. Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, December 15, 2017, accessed on March 7, 2018 .