Frankrijk - Elzas - Straatsburg o.J. Straatsburg, penning op de munster XF/XF+

France, Alsace, Strasbourg, city, tin medal on Strasbourg Cathedral, undated.

Obverse: view of Strasbourg Cathedral from the southwest, with its single tall spire.

Reverse: the building history of the cathedral in a ten-line German inscription: Den Grund zum Strasburgischen Münster legte Bischof Werinher 1015. Der Bau wurde geendigt 1275. Erwin von Steinbach fieng 1277 den Thurn an, der erst 1439 vollendet wurde. Seine Hoehe betraegt 436 Schuh. (translated: The foundation of the Strasbourg minster was laid by Bishop Werinher in 1015. The building was finished in 1275. Erwin von Steinbach began the tower in 1277, which was only completed in 1439. Its height amounts to 436 feet.)

References: Wurzbach 8590.

Bishop Werner laid the first stone in 1015, because the previous cathedral had burned down. The spire was only completed by Johannes Hültz in 1439, and that is why the church received a single tower instead of the two that were planned. In 1794 the citizens placed a giant tin Phrygian cap on the spire, because they wanted to save the tower from demolition during the French Revolution.

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