Eberswalde Hoard

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Eberswalde Hoard or Treasure of Eberswalde is a Bronze Age hoard of 81 gold objects with a total weight of 2.59 kg. The largest prehistoric assembly of gold objects ever found in Germany, it is considered to be one of the most important finds from the Central European Bronze Age. Today, it forms part of the Russian Beutekunst, i.e. the group of artifacts and works of art taken to Russia from Germany at the end of the Second World War.The hoard was discovered 1 m below the ground surface on the May 16, 1913, during excavations for a house within the grounds of a brass factory at Finow, part of Eberswalde in Brandenburg. The factory supervisor alerted Carl Schuchhardt, the director of the Prehistoric Department of the Royal Museums at Berlin, who acceded the hoard to that collection