The collection of antiquities of the Counts of Manderscheid-Blankenheim

自16世纪以来，在中欧，古董收藏被认为是贵族和资产阶级精英的身份、美德和智慧的表达，特别是在北方意大利和自由帝国城市的社区;古董被理解为世俗权力的象征，是对其所有者的城市或地区过去的知识的表达。最后，这些古物还证明了各个贵族家庭和城市的鼎盛时期可以追溯到罗马帝国时期。曼德斯凯-布兰肯海姆伯爵在布兰肯海姆和Jünkerath城堡的文物收藏在16世纪末，在17世纪和18世纪是今天莱茵兰最大的罗马文物收藏。该系列-由人文主义者赫尔曼冯曼德尔沙伊德伯爵汇编（1548-1604），其中包括两个科隆和波恩考古发现，以及文物的于利希地区和艾菲尔-被遗弃后，飞行的最后一位夫人的城堡奥古斯塔Leopoldine，伯爵夫人的曼德施伊德-布兰肯海姆（1744-1811）和她的丈夫，波希米亚伯爵菲利普克里斯蒂安冯斯滕贝格（1732-1811）到布拉格，并与他们的儿子弗朗茨约瑟夫Sternberg-Manderscheid谁割让文物弗朗茨费迪南德Wallraf在1803年的信。拟议项目的目标是为莱茵兰博物馆中仍然保存的文物以及这一杰出收藏品中丢失的物品创建一个几乎完整的版本，这些物品可以在手稿和出版物的帮助下重建。重要的是要在其他文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.