| Description : Sanssouci Palace (from French sans souci 'without worry')
is one of the most famous Hohenzollern palaces in Potsdam, the capital of Brandenburg. According to his own sketches, the
Prussian King Friedrich II had a small summer palace built in the rococo style by the architect Georg Wenzeslaus von
Knobelsdorff between 1745 and 1747. In 1990 the palaces and parks of Potsdam and Berlin were declared a World Heritage Site.
The southern side of the palace is depicted on the coin with the terraced vineyard in the foreground. Frederick the Great's
wish to be buried on the upper vineyard terrace was only fulfilled in 1991. Two of the statues of the fountain roundel placed
at the foot of the vineyard ‐ the originals are now in the Bode‐Museum in Berlin ‐ remind us of love and death:
Venus (left) and Mercury (right); they were created by Jean‐Baptiste Pigalle in 1748 and were a gift from the French
King Louis XV. At the top of the motif is the year of issue "2020", to the left of it 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), on the right of it the initials "JT" of the coin designer Jordi Truxa. At the
bottom of the motif is the federal state name "BRANDENBURG" and the country abbreviation "D" (for Deutschland / Germany). |
