Mysterious 400-year-old cache of ancient treasure found hidden crammed inside leg of STATUE in church
Date: 2025-01-15
A HUGE “fortune” of 400-year-old treasure has been found crammed inside the leg of a statue in a church.
Restoration workers found four “bulging” bags of golden coins concealed inside a stone cavity when they were working on a famous Gothic church in Germany.
The epitaph statue inside which the coins were hidden[/caption]
A statue of Martin Luther, Protestant reformer, who delivered his final sermons at the church
Instead, the cash is “the collected income from special services provided by the pastors,” such as weddings, baptisms and funerals.
Pastors also collected money from “chair fees,” when would pay for the best seats in church, he said.
During the Thirty Years’ War Swedish troops plundered the area around Eisleben as often as every week, so anything valuable had to be concealed.
Locals were forced to give the Swedish troops accomodation and food, and pay them vast sums of money, Dräger sai.
He added: “Eisleben lost around half of its population between 1628 and 1650.