German 10-euro silver coin appears the latest German 10-euro silver coin (pdn) in August by Germany from devoted to an idea, joined a global triumph: the youth hostel is celebrating its 100th anniversary in August 2009. A heavy, long-lasting storm front 1909 surprised the school on their migration from Altena to Aachen in the height of summer. Her teacher, Richard Schirrmann went with students traveling, because in the large cities of the Ruhr area a few students ever a Lark Sing, call a cuckoo, a woodpecker banging and splash a Bach had heard.” His vision of the migratory school”threatened that August night a century ago but thoroughly into the water to fall into, because nobody wanted to take on the school, the farmers denying at least a dry barn. Finally found the class but still shelter in an empty school and Schirren Mann’s diary entry of that night is regarded since then as birth of the youth hostel movement: the storm raged throughout the night with lightning and Thunder, storm and downpour with hail patter, as if the world should end. “While the wall ermuden boys slept tight, I lay awake suddenly fell over me the idea: hiking important anywhere a welcoming hostel to stay for the youth of Germany without distinction.” Three years later, Richard Schirrmann should open the first permanent Youth Hostel in the world on the Burg Altena. And just that Burg Altena is also the basis of the new German 10-euro coin in Westphalia. In contrast to the medieval building, designed the other parts of the subject very modern Designer Hans Joa Dobler, setting tension.
Based on the triangular logo of the German Youth Hostel Association youth hostels spread emanating from the Grunderort Altena symbolically. Vertical lines are compacted it clarify the temporal dynamics and contemporary change. Because after the reunification, the number of members has grown by leaps and bounds and is always still constantly increasing. So reported the German “Youth Hostel Association, which has adapted its accommodations the modern needs in recent years, on June 13, 2009: the 2-million mark has been exceeded!” In particular, the repetition of the graphic composition of the German Federal Eagle on the value side liked the jury of the Federal Ministry of finance at the winning design in the competition for the 10-euro silver coin. And also the edge inscription could not better fit to this educational export songs from Germany, which encourage young generations to respectful dealing with nature and with the people, to the exchange of cultures and for international understanding.
“The terms of value can be found engraved on the edge of the coins meeting community tolerance”. Specifications: Subject: 100 years of youth hostels. Output in 2009; 10 euro; Silver (925 / 1000); Diameter 32,5 mm; weight 18 g; Requirements: 1.61 million uncirculated; 200,000 mirror finish (polished plate); Mint Karlsruhe (G).