Aachen Barbarossaleuchter

From time to time I have a pop at Buckfast Abbey for their poor hanging of their fine replica of the Aachen Barbarossaleuchter. See, for example, reference 1.

Then this afternoon, quite by chance, while reading, in the book by MacGregor noticed at reference 2, about the tussle for ownership of the memory of Charlemagne between the French and the Germans, with Napoleon going so far as to annex his imperial city, that is to say Aachen, for a while, to be returned to the Germans after the Battle of Waterloo. But all this was the occasion for a picture of the Barbarossaleuchter, hanging under the octagonal tower and dome of the ancient Palatine Chapel, in Aachen Cathedral. A much more appropriate setting for such an object: getting on for 1,000 years old and one of only four such.

I hope to notice MacGregor properly, shortly.

PS: to be fair to the French, Aachen is a border city, next door to both what are now Belgium and the Netherlands. A place with a chequered history.

Reference 1: http://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/02/more-abbey.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/10/tombstone.html.

Reference 3: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarossaleuchter.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarossa_Chandelier. The abridged version for those (like myself) without the German.