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The Eberswalde Hoard

Bronze Age · found 1913, Eberswalde, Brandenburg, Germany
RECOVERED
Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

The Eberswalde Hoard: still unexplained.

Germany's largest prehistoric gold find, 81 vessels & ornaments

The law of this ground: Held in Russia since WWII; ownership disputed with Germany.
The subject
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The manifest
Germany's largest prehistoric gold find, 81 vessels & ornaments
The account

Diggers laying a house foundation at a brass works in 1913 struck gold a metre down: 81 Bronze Age objects, bowls and arm-spirals, two and a half kilos of it, the finest prehistoric gold ever found in Germany. The Red Army carried it to Moscow in 1945, and there it has stayed, a recovered treasure now itself lost behind a museum's locked doors, claimed by two nations.

How it was found
  • Found in Germany in 1913, a hoard of Bronze Age gold vessels; taken to the Soviet Union after the war and, like Priam's gold, still held in Moscow.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

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The full hunt kit

Starting brief, what's known and disputed, evidence timeline, source list, map card, coordinate-confidence and legal-access summaries, and a field checklist, free with a Fellowship account.

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Context, not proof. The dossier's own sources remain the evidence record.

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Chart position 52.830°, 13.820° (approx.) View on the Map