2 euro collector coins set 2025 "Bundesländer II"

After Hamburg (2023) and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (2024), this year's numismatic journey to the sights and regional specialties of the sixteen federal states will take us to the famous Saarschleife in Saarland.

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22,95 Euro

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Overview details

Motif: „Saarland“

Series: „Bundesländer II“

Artist: Carsten Wolff, Frankfurt/Main

Issue date: January 16, 2025

Mints: Berlin (A), München (D), Stuttgart (F), Karlsruhe (G), Hamburg (J)

Weight: 8,5 g

Coin diameter: 25,75 mm

Material: Bimetall

Edge lettering: EINIGKEIT UND RECHT UND FREIHEIT

Nominal: 2 Euro

Mint quality: brilliant uncirculated / mint gloss

Description Coin

The motif by artist Carsten Wolff from Frankfurt am Main is delicately designed and reduced to the essential elements of the meandering course of the river. The wooded hilly landscape that surrounds the river at this point is condensed into a landscape-forming course. The bird's eye view, which takes up the iconographic view of the Saar loop, embeds the waterway in hilltops that disappear into the distance. Set deeper into the foreground, the lettering SAARLAND is present, but allows the light-flooded and tranquil landscape to appear undisturbed.

Backgroundinformation

The Saar Loop - often referred to as “Germany's most beautiful river loop” - is one of the most famous tourist and scenic motifs in the Saarland. The most popular view is from the cliffs of Cloef, 180 m above the turning point of the river. From there, the view opens up to the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park - and even as far as the Vosges Mountains on a clear day. The narrowing of the Saarschleife valley is due to a special geographical feature: the river emerges from the red sandstone of the Merzig basin into a section of hard quartzite rock. Rock faces and small gorges form the banks. The mountain spur around which the Saar flows is approx. 4 km long and rises over 300 m into the sky at its highest point. The area around the Saar loop is largely covered with natural forest. Many tourist attractions have been created around the Cloef viewpoint, including an 800-metre treetop trail with a 42-metre-high observation tower.