Otto the Great and the Roman Empire
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A large billboard for the Saxony-Anhalt state exhibit "Otto the Great and the Roman Empire" could be seen in the capital of Magdeburg in mid-August. The exhibit commemorates 1,050 years since Otto I was crowned Emperor in Rome. (© picture alliance / ZB) -
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President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert opened the Otto the Great exhibit on Sunday, August 26 in the Cathedral of Magdeburg, where the Emperor is also buried. (© picture alliance / dpa) -
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The first visitors to the exhibition wait to enter the Kulturhistorische Museum of Magdeburg, founded 1906 and featuring a hall devoted to Emperor Otto the Great, on Monday, August 27. (© picture alliance / dpa) -
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A bronze sphere crowns the top of a Roman obelisk which stood in Alexandria during the reign of Emperor Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire. Moved to St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City in 1586, it is one of over 350 items on display in Magdeburg. (© picture alliance / dpa) -
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A historic document with the third Imperial seal of Otto I. (© picture alliance / dpa) -
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The ornate cover of the so-called "Ada-Evangeliar," an important illuminated manuscript from the court of Charlemagne, created around 800 in Aachen and on loan to Magdeburg from Trier. (© picture alliance / dpa) -
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A panel showing the places where Otto the Great sojourned during his reign as emperor can be seen at the former imperial palace and cloister at Memleben, where both Otto and his father Heinrich I died, around 80 miles south of Magdeburg. An exhibit corresponding to the Magdeburg one is on view at Memleben. (© picture alliance / dpa) -
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The "Otto-Adelheid-Evangeliar," a Latin manuscript with a cover of gold, is on loan from the St. Servatius church treasure chamber of Quedlinburg, founded by the Ottonian kings and today a UNESCO World Heritage site. (© picture alliance / dpa) -
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The Magdeburg exhibition devoted to Otto the Great is the centerpiece of a series of exhibits devoted to Otto throughout the state of Saxony-Anhalt. In Memleben, where Otto the Great died in the year 973, the exhibit is titled, "When the Emperor Dies: Death of the Ruler in the Middle Ages." (© picture alliance / dpa)
