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Cuxhaven (dpa / lni) - Parts of the cargo from a 500-year-old wreck found in the North Sea can be seen in the future in the permanent exhibition of the Cuxhaven Museum "Wind Force 10".
These are three copper plates from the Fugger family, as the city of Cuxhaven announced on Thursday.
The historical finds have been given to the museum by the Netherlands on permanent loan.
In 2019, Dutch salvage experts found the wreck of a merchant ship built in 1540 on the bottom of the North Sea.
It had transported hundreds of copper plates with the coat of arms of the then powerful and wealthy Augsburg trading family Fugger, which had a copper monopoly in the 16th century.
The total weight of the cargo was over 13 tons.
Part of the wooden hull had been preserved under the plates.
The salvage experts discovered the wreck by chance.
They were actually looking for the more than 340 containers that had gone overboard from the cargo ship MSC Zoe in January 2019.
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The “Wind Force 10” museum documents sinking ships and the challenges in deep-sea fishing.
For a week it has been reopened under certain conditions after being closed due to corona.
Reduced admission prices apply until April 9, 2021.
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