Values the order of billions of crowns were on Monday morning looted from the museum Grünes Gewölbe in Dresden.
A museum in Dresden with a large collection of jewelry, jewels and gems have Monday morning had uninvited guests.
Thieves believed to have stolen values for up to 7.5 billion dollars, writes the German media Bild.
It is the historical museum Grünes Gewölbe (The Green Vault, red.), there have been looted.
the Thieves broken supposedly a window to the museum shortly before at 5 a.m. Monday morning. They had previously disconnected the power supply.
Police were on the spot, five minutes after the alarm had sounded, but there was the thieves escaped.
With themselves they have got the jewels from the 1700s, including diamonds and rubies.
– We are talking here about objects of inestimable cultural value, says museum curator Dirk Syndram at a press conference. Retrobet
It will be something near impossible to sell, so unique and easily recognizable jewelry, assesses Marion Ackermann, who is head of museums in the state of Saxony.
She adds that the stolen objects cultural value far exceeds the material value.
the museum building has now been sealed, while the staff checks the sessions in the attempt to determine exactly what is stolen.
There have not been any arrests in the case.
Minister-president of Saxony Michael Kretschmer calls the theft a hard blow for the region.
– The treasures that you find in the Grünes Gewölbe and the royal palace, is through the hundreds of years, the total of the people in Saxony, he says.
Grünes Gewölbe was founded in the 1800s by the elector of Saxony.
the Museum is named after the vaulted space in the kurfyrsteslottet, in which the treasury was decorated.
the Collections of among other things, silver and guldsmedekunst dating from the 1500s to the 1700s.
The precious objects came during the Second world War to the Soviet union as spoils of war. The values were subsequently delivered back to the former GDR in 1958.
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