According to a court ruling, the owner of the stolen, huge gold coin from the Berlin Bode Museum is said to receive almost 1.3 million euros from the insurance company.

However, there is no claim to the insured value of 4.2 million euros, the higher court announced on Wednesday.

The judges in the civil dispute ruled that the owner was entitled to 50 percent of the sum.

This changed the decision of the lower court (regional court) on this point.

According to the court, the insurance company paid out 20 percent of the sum insured after the theft (840,000 euros).

The district court had dismissed the owner's claim for further payments.

Both the owner and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as the sponsor of the museum had appealed against this.

According to the Court of Appeal, the damages could be claimed.

However, the insurance company is entitled to reduce the sum insured by half, since the Foundation, as the policyholder, acted with gross negligence.

The 100 kilogram gold plate was stolen from a showcase on the night of March 27, 2017 and transported away with a wheelbarrow and roller board. The thieves got in through a window. The prey has disappeared to this day. The district court had imposed youth sentences of four and a half years in prison each against two men from a large family of Arab origin known to the police. An ex-security guard who the court believed was scouting the museum was sentenced to three years and four months in prison.

The civil court now argued that the defective window sash had increased the risk of theft.

The electronic monitoring of this window has not worked for a long time.

That should have been reported, so the Chamber Court.

The deficiency was also not compensated for by other measures.

The court is convinced that the insurer would not have taken out the individual policy for the coin if he had known about the permanent deactivation of the opening security.

This was only known after the theft.

The insurance company should now pay exactly 1.26 million euros plus interest.

An appeal against the ruling was not permitted; an appeal against the non-approval can still be lodged with the Federal Court of Justice.