Jordi Truxa depicts this central event, which also contains the moral of the fairy tale, on the coin: Under an archway, on the left, Goldmarie can be seen in a rain of gold, and on the right of her stands Pechmarie, who has no gold but a shower of bad luck breaks in. Above the gate, Mrs. Holle shakes out her blankets from a window so that the snowflakes dance. The marginal writing, in keeping with the moral message of the story, reads: THIS IS TO REWARD YOUR SERVICES*.
This and a number of other fairy tales were published by them in the famous collection of children's and household fairy tales in the early 19th century. Many of these stories play with fantastic and frightening elements. The moral message of the fairy tales is at the center.
A widow, as the story goes, once had two daughters: a hard-working and capable stepdaughter and a lazy, lethargic natural daughter who preferred her to her stepdaughter. One day the stepdaughter accidentally dropped a spindle into the well and was forced by the widow to jump after it. She did so and woke up in a spring meadow. There she met Mrs. Holle. She instructed the girl to bake bread from summer grain, to collect the autumn apple harvest, and finally to shake out the blankets, which made it snow. The hard-working stepdaughter completed all the tasks conscientiously, and in the end gold rained down on her as a thank you. When the widow also sent her lazy daughter, she was showered with bad luck after failing miserably at the tasks.
