It is one of the few artifacts of the Early Middle Ages which portrays the figures of people.

During construction work in the vicinity of the street known as Pliezhauser Alamannenstraße, graves from an Alemannian grave field kept coming to light.

The Pliezhausen brooch is displayed in the Württemberg State Museum in the Alter Schloss in Stuttgart.

Several comparable finds from the early Middle Ages are known, such as from the noble ship graves of Sutton Hoo in England and Vendel and Valsgärde in Sweden.

It is one of the few naturalistic and figurative representations that have survived from the early Middle Ages and provides valuable information on the mythical and religious imagination of the pagan Alemanni at the transition to Christianity.