The collection of antiquities of the Counts of Manderscheid-Blankenheim

自16世纪以来，收藏古董在中欧被认为是贵族和资产阶级精英的身份、德图斯和萨皮亚的一种表达，尤其是在意大利北部的社区和自由的帝国城市中；古董被理解为世俗权力的象征，以及对其所有者所在城市或地区过去的了解的表达。最后，这些古董证明了罗马帝国时期的各个贵族家族和城市都有很高的历史。布朗肯海姆城堡和荣克拉斯城堡中的曼德谢德-布兰肯海姆伯爵的古董收藏是16世纪末，也就是17世纪和18世纪，今天莱茵兰最大的罗马古董收藏。这些藏品由人文主义者赫尔曼·冯·曼德施泰德伯爵(Hermann von Manderscheid，1548-1604)编纂，其中包括科隆和波恩的考古发现，以及Jülich地区和艾菲尔的文物。1803年，奥古斯塔·莱奥波尔丁城堡的最后一位女士曼德施莱奥波尔丁(Augusta Leopoldine)和她的丈夫波希米亚伯爵菲利普·克里斯蒂安·冯·斯滕贝格(Philipp Christian Von Sternberg，1732-1811)逃往布拉格，并附上了他们的儿子弗朗茨·约瑟夫·斯特恩伯格-曼德施泰德(Franz Josef Sternberg Sternberg-Manderscheid)的信件，后者于1803年将文物割让给弗朗茨·费尔迪诺(Franz Ferdindine)和沃拉夫(Wallraf)。拟议项目的目标是制作莱茵兰博物馆中仍然保存完好的古董的几乎完整的版本，以及这一杰出收藏品中丢失的物品，这些物品可以通过手稿和出版物进行重建。重要的是要在其他古物收藏的背景下确定收藏和展示的概念。

Since the 16th century the collection of antiquities was considered in Central Europe as an expression of identity, virtus and sapientia of the aristocracy and the bourgeois elites particularly in the communities of northern Italy and in the free imperial cities; the antiquitates were understood as symbols of secular power and as an expression of knowledge about the past of the city or region of their owners. Finally, the antiquities served as proof of the high age reaching back into the Roman imperial period both of the respective noble families as well as of the cities. The collection of antiquities of the Counts of Manderscheid-Blankenheim in the castles of Blankenheim and Jünkerath was at the end of the 16th, in the 17th and 18th centuries the largest collection of Roman antiquities in today's Rhineland. The collection - compiled by the humanist Count Hermann von Manderscheid (1548-1604), which consisted of both Cologne and Bonn archaeological findings as well as antiquities of the Jülich region and the Eifel - was abandoned after the flight of the last lady of the castle Augusta Leopoldine, Countess of Manderscheid-Blankenheim (1744-1811) and her husband, the Bohemian Count Philipp Christian von Sternberg (1732-1811) to Prague and with the letter of their son Franz Josef Sternberg-Manderscheid who ceded the antiquities to Franz Ferdinand Wallraf in 1803. The proposed project has the objective to create an almost complete edition of the still preserved antiquities in museums of the Rhineland but also of the lost items of this outstanding collection, which can be reconstructed with the help of manuscripts and publications. It is important to identify the concept of the collection and of the presentation within the context of other collections of antiquities.