Germany

Commemorative coin

2020

Brandenburg " Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam "

(Part of the National series " Lander’-series I ")

Official Journal of the European Union

The design shows the Sanssouci Palace. The upper half of the coin’s inner section includes the mint mark of the respective mint (‘A’, ‘D’, ‘F’, ‘G’ or ‘J’), the artist’s initials and the year ‘2020’. The lower half of the coin’s inner section contains the inscription ‘BRANDENBURG’ and Germany’s issuing country code ‘D’. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European f lag.

Additional information

Sanssouci Palace (French 'without worry') is one of the most famous Hohenzollern palaces in Potsdam, the capital of Brandenburg. According to his own sketches, the Prussian King Frederick 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 World Heritage Sites. The southern side of the palace depicted on the coin is preceded by a terraced vineyard. Frederick the Great's wish to be buried on the uppermost 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.

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