importantly the Essen Liber Ordinarius of 1400, describe the use of processional crosses for processions, they speak generally and without distinguished individual crosses. Processional crosses were often used in pairs and on the basis of the creation of the Cross with large enamels under Abbess Mathilde it is assumed that the Cross with large enamels was made as a companion to the Cross of Otto and Mathilde. The two crosses were used together under Cardinal Hengsbach. The Cross with large enamels was last used in 1992 at the funeral of the second Bishop of Essen, Dr. Hubert Luthe. Today the Cross with large enamels, like the other three Ottonian processional crosses of the cathedral, is no longer in use for conservation reasons. References Notes Sources Klaus Gereon Beuckers. Der Essener Marsusschrein. Untersuchungen zu einem verlorenen Hauptwerk der ottonischen Goldschmiedekunst. Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 2006, . Klaus Gereon Beuckers. "Kreuz mit den großen Senkschmelzen." In Gold vor Schwarz – Der Essener Domschatz auf Zollverein, edited by Birgitta Falk. Katalog zur Ausstellung 2008. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, , p. 70. Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Ulrich Knapp. Farbiges Gold – Die ottonischen Kreuze in der Domschatzkammer Essen und ihre Emails. Domschatzkammer Essen 2006, . Georg Humann. Die Kunstwerke der Münsterkirche zu Essen. Düsseldorf 1904. Lydia Konnegen. "Verborgene Schätze. Der Essener Münsterschatz in Zeiten des Ruhrkampfes." Münster am Hellweg 2005, pp. 67ff. Alfred Pothmann. "Der Essener Kirchenschatz aus der Frühzeit der Stiftsgeschichte." Herrschaft, Bildung und Gebet – Gründung und Anfänge des Frauenstifts Essen. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2000, . External links 10th-century sculptures 11th-century sculptures Crux gemmata Works in vitreous enamel Cross With Large Enamels Ottonian sculptures