!!!Kaiserkronen

Imperial Crowns: The Secular Imperial Treasury displays 2 crowns: the 
Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, which was probably made in 962 or 968 
for Otto I the Great. The arch of the crown goes back to the 
11%%sup th/%  century. This crown was used for the coronation of 
German kings and Roman Emperors until 1792. The Austrian crown was 
made by order of Rudolf II in Prague in 1602 by Jan Vermeyen as a 
private crown with a mitre under the arch. Later it became the 
official Habsburg crown and was used when the Habsburg hereditary 
lands became the Austrian Empire. In 1804 it became the official crown 
but was never used for a coronation.

!Literature
H. Fillitz, Die oesterreichische Kaiserkrone, 
%%sup 2/%1973; G. Kugler, Die Reichskrone, %%sup 2/%1986; Weltliche 
und geistliche Schatzkammer. Guide, 1987.


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