fme_1148453 - GERMANY - KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA - WILLIAM I Médaille, Achèvement de la cathédrale de Cologne
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Type : Médaille, Achèvement de la cathédrale de Cologne
Date: 1880
Mint name / Town : Allemagne, Cologne
Metal : copper
Diameter : 50,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver DRENTWETT DIR / KÄMMEKER P&C
Weight : 56,81 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Jolie patine marron avec une bonne partie de son brillant de frappe. Quelques points d’usure sur les hauts reliefs. Fines stries sur la tranche
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANBETUNG DER / HL. DREI KÖNIGE // DOMBILD ZU CÖLN.
Obverse description : Vierge à l’enfant assise sur un trône entourée des rois mages.
Obverse translation : Culte des trois Saint Roi Mages.
Reverse
Reverse legend : DER - DOM ZU KÖLN // À L’EXERGUE : BEGONNEN 1248 / VOLLENDET 1880.
Reverse description : Vue sur la cathédrale de Cologne. Signé : DRENTWETT.
Commentary
La cathédrale de Cologne (en allemand: Kölner Dom) de son nom plus officiel Haute Église Cathédrale Saint-Pierre et Sainte-Marie, est une église catholique romaine de la ville de Cologne ainsi que la cathédrale de l'archevêché de Cologne. Avec ses 157 mètres de haut et ses 533 marches, elle est la deuxième plus haute église d'Allemagne et du monde pour ses tours, après la cathédrale d'Ulm.
1248 : pose de la première pierre par l'évêque puis construction du chevet et de la nef.
1880 : achèvement de l'édifice, après 632 ans et 2 mois.
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Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom), officially the High Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Mary, is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Cologne and the cathedral of the Archbishopric of Cologne. At 157 meters high and with 533 steps, it is the second tallest church in Germany and the world for its towers, after Ulm Cathedral. 1248: The bishop laid the foundation stone, followed by the construction of the apse and nave. 1880: The building was completed after 632 years and 2 months.
1248 : pose de la première pierre par l'évêque puis construction du chevet et de la nef.
1880 : achèvement de l'édifice, après 632 ans et 2 mois.
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Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom), officially the High Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Mary, is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Cologne and the cathedral of the Archbishopric of Cologne. At 157 meters high and with 533 steps, it is the second tallest church in Germany and the world for its towers, after Ulm Cathedral. 1248: The bishop laid the foundation stone, followed by the construction of the apse and nave. 1880: The building was completed after 632 years and 2 months.
Historical background
GERMANY - KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA - WILLIAM I
(2/01/1861-9/03/1888)
Guillaume I is the second son of Frédéric Guillaume III and the brother of Frédéric Guillaume IV. He has been regent for his brother since 1856 when he succeeded him in 1861. He marries Augusta of Saxe-Weimar from whom he has two children including Frederick III. With his minister Otto von Bismarck, he will achieve German unity. The Austro-Prussian War of 1866 with Sadowa's victory rid him of Austria and strengthen the North German Confederation. The war started against France in 1870 will bring him, by the Treaty of Frankfurt, Alsace and Lorraine on May 10, 1871. On January 28, 1871, he was crowned Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.. The payment of the indemnity of 5 billion gold francs paid by France will enable it to succeed in its monetary reform, based on the gold standard. Bismarck remains Prime Minister of Prussia and imposes his views on foreign policy: isolation of France, alliance with Italy, Austria and Russia. The Berlin Congress allows Germany to pose as the arbiter of Europe and to constitute a colonial empire in Africa, Asia and Oceania. William I died in his nineties in 1888..
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