Schatzkammer Exhibit
November 12, 2008 – 10:34 amSpanning the years between Empress Cunegunde’s Crown and those just described, the Schatzkammer exhibit contains a welter of crowns, diadems, gold diamond jewelry, and tiaras of every sort and description, dripping with gems set in precious metals, tracing the royal successions of a long line of related kings and queens. Since the crowns were so carefully preserved it is reasonable to suspect other treasures were also. There they are, including scepters, orbs, jeweled insignia of the Orders of St. Hubert and St. George and of the Golden Fleece, brooches, hat ornaments, necklaces, chains, bracelets, crosses wedding rings, jeweled statues of St. George, portable altars, and even the jeweled and decorated private prayer book of King Charles, who reigned in A.D. 870. Thanks primarily to the original action of Duke Albrecht V, it is all there for us to see and admire.