The collection of antiquities of the Counts of Manderscheid-Blankenheim

自16世纪以来，文物收藏在中欧被认为是贵族和资产阶级精英的身份，美德和智慧的表达，特别是在意大利北部社区和自由帝国城市；古物被认为是世俗权力的象征，是对其所有者所在城市或地区过去的知识的表达。最后，这些古物证明了它们的历史可以追溯到罗马帝国时期，无论是贵族家庭还是城市。曼德沙伊德-布兰肯海姆伯爵在布兰肯海姆和约恩克拉特城堡里收藏的古物是16世纪末、17世纪和18世纪莱茵兰最大的罗马古物收藏。这些藏品是由人文主义者赫尔曼·冯·曼德沙伊德伯爵（1548-1604）编纂的，包括科隆和波恩的考古发现，以及杰<s:1>利希地区和艾菲尔的文物。这些藏品在曼德沙伊德-布兰肯海姆伯爵夫人（1744-1811）和她的丈夫奥古斯塔·利奥波丁城堡的最后一位夫人逃跑后被遗弃了。波希米亚伯爵菲利普·克里斯蒂安·冯·斯滕伯格（1732-1811）带着他们的儿子弗朗茨·约瑟夫·斯滕伯格-曼德沙伊德的信来到布拉格，弗朗茨·约瑟夫·斯滕伯格-曼德沙伊德于1803年将这些文物割让给了弗朗茨·费迪南德·沃拉夫。拟议项目的目标是创建一个几乎完整的版本，其中包括莱茵兰博物馆中仍然保存的古董，以及这些杰出收藏品中丢失的物品，这些物品可以在手稿和出版物的帮助下进行重建。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.