Description : Maulbronn Monastery, a former Cistercian abbey founded in 1147,
is considered the best preserved medieval monastery complex north of the Alps and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site
since 1993. The coin design by Eugen Ruhl shows an interior view of the fountain house and the west facade of the
monastery church, consecrated in 1178, with the vestibule, called "Paradise", built around 1210. At the top of the motif is the year of issue
"2013", on the right the German mint mark (A = Staatliche Münze Berlin in Berlin,
D = Bayerisches Hauptmünzamt in Munich, F = Staatliche Münzen
Baden‐Württemberg in Stuttgart, G = Staatliche Münzen Baden‐Württemberg in
Karlsruhe or J = Landesbetrieb Hamburgische Münze in Hamburg), below the main motif the name of the
federal state "BADEN‐WÜRTTEMBERG" and below it the abbreviation "D" (for Deutschland / Germany). At the bottom
to the left are the initials "ER" of the designer.
‐ ‐ Originally the Heidelberg Castle was intended
as the motif for Baden‐Württemberg's commemorative coin, but when the UNESCO World Conference in July 2005
failed to recognise it as a World Heritage Site, the design was changed. |
