Description : The southern view of Frankfurt's Paulskirche (St Paul's
church) is depicted on the coin marking Hesse's presidency of the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament). Frankfurt's main
Protestant church, built between 1789 and 1833, has a classical rotunda designed by the architect Johann Friedrich
Christian Hess. From 1848 to 1849 it was the meeting place for delegates to the Frankfurt National Assembly, the first
freely elected German parliament. On the 18th of March 1944 the Paulskirche burnt down after an air raid on
Frankfurt upon Main. After the Second World War, it was the first historic building to be rebuilt and reopened as the
"House of All Germans" on the 18th of May 1948, the centenary of the National Assembly. Since then it has been a
national monument and is used for exhibitions and public events. At the bottom of the motif is the name of the federal
state "HESSEN" (Hesse), top left the year of issue "2015", top right the country abbreviation "D" (for Deutschland /
Germany) and unerneath it the initials of the designer, "HH" standing for Heinz Hoyer. Bottom left is 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).
‐ ‐ The motif of the
coin of Hesse was originally intended to be the Römer (city hall) in Frankfurt upon Main. |
