Mummies of Illmersdorf

The mummies of Illmersdorf are eleven mummified corpses, eight adults and two children as well as an infant, in ten coffins in the mummy crypt of the half-timbered church in Illmersdorf near Drebkau in Brandenburg. The mummies were created without the use of artificial mummification methods. Experts suspect that the bodies dried out and were thus mummified. Today, the mummies from the period 1748 to 1821 are a tourist attraction. Five of the eleven mummies can be viewed through a pane of glass. The mummies of Illmersdorf are the only ones in Lusatia and are considered the largest mummy treasure in Brandenburg.
In 1738, according to the local chronicle, Caspar Ernst von Normann, a colonel sergeant of the Rothenburg Grenadier Regiment and member of a nobility on the island of Rügen, bought the Illmersdorf estate. The von Normann family is an old Pomeranian-Rüg noble family, which was first mentioned in the 13th century in the Principality of Rügen. Four years after the purchase, he built a new church in the village in 1742 instead of the manor chapel. Under the gallery of the small church, he had a crypt built for himself and his wife, Johanna Louise, née von Barfus. The alliance coat of arms of both families is above the west door, a second coat of arms in the church. His coat of arms on the outside of the west wall bears the inscription: "With God's help this church has been built Caspar Ernst von Normann MDCCXLII Royal Prussian Obristwachtmeiser of the Cavalry"

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