1078364 | GERMAN STATES. Brandenburg-Prussia. 1870 Bronze Medal. PCGS SP64. By L. Wiener. 70.5mm. 154.80gm. Conjoined busts, right of Wilhelm I and his wife Augusta Marie Luise Katharina, daughter of Grand Duke Carl Friedrich of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach / View of the King Wilhelm Railway Bridge; the river god of the Rhine, resting with his right arm leaning on a spring urn, and to his left he holds the coats of arms of Elberfeld and Aachen. Döry/Kubinszky 145; Reinecke 157 (in gilt bronze); Schulten 9; Henckel 4933; Unlisted in Marienburg; Ross M292.

To commemorate the opening of the railway bridge over the Rhine near Düsseldorf.

Housed in an oversized holder.


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The Rhine bridge was built in Düsseldorf between 1868-1870 as part of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway (headquarters in Elberfeld) for the Elberfeld-Aachen route. She was thus completed in time for the troop transports in the Franco-German War (1870/1871). The inauguration ceremony of the bridge, for which this medal was completed in time, was canceled due to the outbreak of war. In 1901 the medals were found by chance in the attic of the administration building of the Bergisch-Märkische Bahn and were finally distributed.
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