With the decline of the Hanseatic League Hamburg strengthened its relations with Berlin, the most important economic center in northern Germany. The Rote Mäntel became more and more popular in Hamburg, despite the heavy defeat suffered by the Coven in 1864. The citizens welcomed the representatives of the organization including the famous Schneider von Bergedorf, a rich and powerful magus that had the opportunity to tighten friendship with the Iron Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck has always agreed with the methods with which the Rote Mäntel began to fight against those who threatened the sovereignty of William I.
According to some sources, Schneider made a sensational discovery in January 1877, in fact it seems that he managed to find a ancient relic dating back to the Celtic period. It was a small gold coffer with very particular decorations and it seems that inside there was a fragment of dried skin of a very large snake, surely bigger than a human being. Schneider wrote about it:
"It looks like the skin of a giant snake and according to our estimates it must have belonged to a creature capable of swallowing a ship without even having to chew it. One of our scholars has gone mad trying to unravel the secret behind the dark power it emanates. "
The coffer was confiscated by the Nazis probably in 1938 and then taken by the Soviets. Where is the treasure chest now is a real mystery but the Rote Mäntel crave to be able to get it back.
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