City Gloss

The coin reminds Berlin with silver Memorial coins to the eventful history of the city and district of the Berlin coin reminds with silver Memorial coins to the eventful history of the city and district of 800 years of Kopenick silver Memorial coins to the Jubilee (pdn) Kopenick a sonorous name, many Germans literally by the captain of Kopenick”anchored celebrates this year its 800th birthday. The traditional Mint coin Berlin to a commemorative series set up and remembered with catchy themes has the chequered history of the today’s capital district. Since the year 1209, it is officially guaranteed: Kopenick is by Konrad II., Margrave of Meissen, had its first documentary mention. Town and market rights gained the town then in the 13th and 15th centuries and was henceforth until 1920 as a separate town. Today’s Kopenick with the largest district of the German capital Berlin Treptow. Far beyond its city limits, known in all “Germany and abroad, Kopenick was through the history of the Hauptmann von Kopenick”. “These dated from the time before the amalgamation to Berlin, in 1906: the cobbler and convict Wilhelm Voigt, without residence permit no legal work and no work no residence permit gets, slips in the uniform of a Prussian captain of the 1st Guard regiment on foot”.

Summarily, the self-styled Guard Captain takes over ten grenadiers, storm the Kopenick City Hall with this squad and then settles with the city’s coffers. “Based on this true story, the captain of Kopenick enrolled Carl Zuckmayer play German fairy tale” as film adaptation with Heinz Ruhmann and Harald Juhnke thrilled that millions of people and has moved to tears. “” So it is almost obvious, that the captain of Kopenick “, the even Kaiser Wilhelm II. Crooks play as brilliant guy” described, the Motif series of Memorial coins to the 800 Jubilee opened. The portrait on the silver bottom looks very authentic and is likely to be modeled after a contemporary photograph. Reduce but would do wrong city and district, you wanted them alone on the who had been”.

Berlin District boasts three landscape and just as many protected areas, in the middle of the Muggelsee, as Berlin’s largest lake is located. And of course, a long history leaves also its architectural sights. Other images of the Gedenkpragungs series are therefore not only because of the captain”featured Kopenick City Hall, as well as the beautiful three-storey Baroque building of the magnificent Kopenick Castle. Also the subject of the joint back of the Memorial coins has been carefully researched the Berlin coin, to convey an authentic picture of interested collectors: here is the official coat of arms of the Berlin district of Treptow-Kopenick before the name list of all included parts. 800 years Kopenick”issued a total of only 1,000 times.