Kriebstein treasure
The treasure of 555 individual pieces discovered in October 1986 by castle manager Bernd Wippert in a chimney of the residential tower of Kriebstein Castle, which is no longer used, is called Kriebstein's Treasure .
history
At the end of the Second World War Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff transported part of his valuable property from Steinort Castle from the Soviet troops from East Prussia and had them stored in Kriebstein . Part of it was walled up in the fireplace. Since the count was involved in the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he was executed on September 4, 1944. The Nazi government expropriated the Lehndorff family property. After the war, most of the movable property was brought to the Soviet Union as reparations . The part in the fireplace, which contained silver, china, gold and a large tapestry , apparently remained undiscovered.
From 1995, the finds were exhibited in a vault in the Kriebstein Castle Museum. The first and only memorial for the resistance fighter Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff was also set up.
In 1992, Lehndorff's widow Gottliebe Countess Lehndorff-Steinort submitted an application for restitution on the Kriebstein treasure and other former family possessions to the Office for the Settlement of Open Property Issues . In February 2010, the widow was awarded 563 items. 556 of these came from the Kriebstein treasure . Of these, 133 were given to the museum in Kriebstein Castle. The 423 parts of the treasure, as well as paintings and 27 volumes of Johann Heinrich Zedler's Large Complete Universal Lexicon of All Sciences and Arts from the Dresden State Art Collection are to be exhibited in the former Lehndorff family headquarters at Steinort Castle. In November 2009 the “Polish-German Foundation for Cultural Preservation and Monument Protection” acquired Steinort Castle. After extensive renovation measures, it will be used as a meeting place.
swell
- Annette Binninger: The treasure from Kriebstein returns home to East Prussia , Sächsische Zeitung from 13./14. February 2010
- Uta Baier: The treasure from the chimney , 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the castle on the website of the German-Polish Foundation for Cultural Preservation and Monument Protection , accessed on February 21, 2016.