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See SHOW Ingelheimer exhibit in Magdeburg


 The Ingelheimer gold coin of Charlemagne is currently on exhibition tour. She was. As an exhibit for the National Exhibition "Otto the Great and the Roman Empire Empire of antiquity to the Middle Ages to be confirmed "in Saxony-Anhalt. Until 9 December, they should be seen in the Cultural History Museum in Magdeburg.

History of the Empire

The major national exhibition held on the occasion of the 1100th Birthday of Otto the Great and the 1050th Instead return his coronation. The central theme of the exhibition is the story of the Empire in Europe. Augustus on the Carolingians to the emperors of the Ottos Otto the Great played in the intellectual history of the Empire is crucial. His work sought to renew the Roman Empire. After he was crowned emperor in Rome in 962, he led thereafter proudly called "OTTO IMP (erator) AUG (ustus)" in his seal. He made so aware of the title and the character of the Roman dominion, and placed himself in the tradition of the first Emperor Augustus, who had founded about 1,000 years ago the empire of ancient Rome.

Otto the Great continued what Charlemagne had begun some 160 years earlier: the appropriation of the Roman Empire. With Charlemagne the Empire was after the fall of the Roman Empire was continued by himself in the year 800 in Rome was crowned Emperor. For this reason, the Carolingians a whole new area in the Magdeburg exhibition is dedicated. Charlemagne turned deliberately into the tradition of the ancient rulers, which is also reflected in the design of the Ingelheim Imperial Palace with its borrowings from Roman palace architecture. Another expression of Charles' claim to power was the minting of gold coins, an imperial privilege.

The Ingelheimer gold coin is thus shown in the Magdeburg exhibition in their capacity as imperial domination characters.

Also, the central figure of the Magdeburg exhibition, Otto the Great, makes a point of reference to Ingelheim. He stayed on at ten times the Ingelheim Imperial Palace to hold court and to celebrate religious festivals high because Ingelheim. At that time preferred to Easter Pfalz in the Rhine-Main region

Through the national exhibition in Magdeburg is clear that with the two emperors Charlemagne and Otto the Great of important figures in European history in Ingelheim perverse domination that were guided by the idea of ​​creating an empire to Roman model. The idea of ​​the renewal of the Roman Empire had the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation continued until its dissolution in the 1806th