Schleswig collection of Nordic antiquities

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The long-time director of the Flensburg collection Helvig Conrad Engelhardt

The Schleswig Collection of Nordic Antiquities , also the Royal Collection of Scandinavian Antiquities in Flensburg ( Danish : Kongelige Samling af nordiske Oldsager i Flensborg ), Flensburgsammlung or Flensburger Sammlung ( Danish : Flensborgsamlingen ), was a museum for antiquities and archaeological finds of the Duchy of Schleswig , which were in the first half of the 19th century from fishing , Sundewitt , Alsen , Ærø and the rest of northern Schleswig .

The collection was housed in a school, but was then transferred to the government courtyard of Flensburg . The most important objects in the collection come from the Thorsberger Moor moor sacrifices from the excavations from 1858 to 1861 and the Nydam moor with the Nydam ship from the excavation campaigns from 1859 to 1863. The collection grew particularly strongly in the years 1852 to 1864 due to Conrad Engelhardt's excavations on. He also bought finds and antiques and received numerous donations for the museum. After the end of the German-Danish War in 1864 with the capitulation of Denmark , the collection passed into Prussian ownership. Engelhardt hid the collection in 1867 and tried in vain to keep it in Danish possession. Eventually Engelhardt had to publish the collection. In 1874 the museum was closed and in 1877 the holdings were transferred to the Museum of Patriotic Antiquities in Kiel . Even after the capitulation of Germany in the First and Second World War, Denmark tried in vain to the property to obtain in the collection, but the collection was awarded Germany.

Today a large part of the collection is in the Archaeological State Museum Schloss Gottorf in Schleswig , the rest is in the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen .

literature

  • Stine Wiell: Flensborgsamlingen 1852-1864 og dens skæbne . Padborg Boghandel, Padborg 1997, ISBN 87-89178-27-0 ( Studieafdelingens udgivelser - Dansk Centralbibliotek for Sydslesvig 37), (Danish). online PDF 7 MB (summary in German: pp. 326–335)
  • Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Politiken, København 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 ( Politikens håndbøger ), (Danish).